By Gabriel Araujo SAO PAULO, March 17 (Reuters) - Brazilian Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said on Tuesday that the ...
In Brazil’s Mato Grosso state, the country’s agricultural heartland, vast stretches of lush Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna give way to seemingly endless fields of soy. Located in a transition ...
For decades, modern agriculture assumed that high yields required heavy doses of synthetic nitrogen fertilisers. Mariangela Hungria proved otherwise. Working quietly at Embrapa, she spent more than 40 ...
IN Brasilia, the Deputy Executive Secretary (Deputy Minister) of Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA), ...
While soybean supply may be limited in the short run, it could increase in the long run with the potential for 70 million acres of converted pastureland.
Brazil is expanding its competitiveness with the United States, becoming the largest beef producer and setting a record for soybean exports. Production costs already are lower than the U.S. for beef, ...
The European Union is banning products coming from areas of deforestation beginning in December 2024. Brazilian Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro believes the new rules are "an affront" of World ...
This year's $500,000 World Food Prize, for advances in agriculture and nutrition, goes to a Brazilian who boosted the country's farming revolution, turning it into a soybean superpower. The World Food ...
Brazil has hundreds of millions of cows, but one in particular is extraordinary. Worth $4 million, Viatina-19 FIV Mara Movéis is the most expensive cow ever sold at auction, according to Guinness ...
President Donald Trump with the then-President of Brazil Jair Bolsonaro at the G20 Summit in Osaka, Japan, June 28, 2019 (White House photo) Some farm-state lawmakers are eyeing potential ...