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06 August 2008

Boost to Brazil's FMD-Free Status
BRAZIL - The World Animal Health Organisation (OIE) has recognised the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul as a foot-and-mouth disease free zone....

29 July 2008

Perdigao Grows by More Than 80 Per Cent
BRAZIL - Perdigao closed the second quarter of 2008 with gross sales of 3.3 billion real (BRR), 81.2% more than the same period in 2007. ...

24 July 2008

Milk from Brazil to the World
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - This year, Brazil is going to have record-high exports of dairy products. ...

26 June 2008

Cattle Seized in Brazil's Green Barrier
US - Brazilian authorities seized 3,100 head of cattle that were found grazing on illegally deforested land in the Amazon rainforest....

07 May 2008

Brazil Puts a Foot in Milk Export Doorway
BRAZIL - Brazilian milk exports have always shown a small and undeveloped representation of the total milk production, averaging just five per cent. However, with the recent turmoil in major exporting countries such as Australia and New Zealand, Brazilian...

18 April 2008

Brazilian Milk Prices On the Up
SAO PAULO, BRAZIL - The milk market has been going up in the recent months. In São Paulo, the milk price paid to the producer is about 35% higher when compared to the same period of 2007....

04 January 2008

Rio Grande Do Sul Starts First Stage of 2008 FMD Vaccination
BRAZIL - The Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul has started the first stage of it 2008 vaccination programme against foot and mouth disease....

22 November 2007

Mato Grosso do Sul Declared FMD Free
BRAZIL - The Brazilian Government has declared Mato Grosso do Sul a region that is free from foot and mouth disease....

09 August 2007

Brazil Has Foot And Mouth Too
BRAZIL - Furious farmers last night called for a ban on beef imports from countries with foot and mouth disease while British livestock movement remains frozen....

23 May 2007

Animal Health Body Declares Brazilian Region Free Of Foot-And-Mouth
BRAZIL - Officials from the World Animal Health Organization have declared the Brazilian state of Santa Catarina free of the foot-and-mouth disease, a meat industry official said on Tuesday. ...

17 May 2007

In 10 Years Brazil Will Be Planet's Main Food Warehouse
BRAZIL - The adjectives are many and voiced loudly all around: Brazil is the world's warehouse; it is the world's source of food. Up to a little while ago, these words were just said, not taken seriously. Now, however, a scenery with ballast, anchored...

11 May 2007

JBS-Friboi Confirms Bid For Swift & Co.
SAO PAULO - JBS-Friboi, the largest producer and exporter of beef in Latin America, said on Thursday it is bidding for North American meat packer Swift & Co....

23 February 2007

Family Tradition Not Enough: Brazil Sends Its Dairy Farmers to School
BRAZIL - The region of São Luiz dos Montes Belos, in the mid-western Brazilian state of Goiás, is becoming a reference in terms of workforce specialized in agribusiness. Ever since the establishment of the Milk Production Cluster (APL), in 2003, two...

01 February 2007

Brazil tightens border against Bolivia foot-and-mouth
BRAZIL - Brazil will begin tightening its border with Bolivia, where foot-and-mouth broke out last week, to try to keep the disease from throwing its world-leading beef export sector back into chaos, the agriculture ministry said on Wednesday....

19 December 2006

Despite current woes, Brazil seen as U.S. farm rival
BRAZIL - When Paulo Sergio Franz guns a mud-splattered pickup past a spread of white Brahman cattle and wide expanses of newly planted soybeans, it becomes evident this is no ordinary family farm. ...

12 December 2006

Brazil's cattle ranchers are embracing change
BRAZIL - Brazil's herd, conservatively estimated at 170 million head (the nation's beef export association figures 204 million), is the world's largest - there are about 97 million U.S. beef cattle - and there is every indication that Brazilians like...

11 December 2006

08 December 2006

OPINION: Brazilian Farming Industry - A Defence
BRAZIL - Robert Forster of the National Beef Association makes a passing reference to Brazilian beef, with the usual disparaging remarks on rainforest destruction and abuse of labour....

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