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JBS, Marfrig and Minerva stand to gain record beef margins.
A recent ban on the sale of cattle for slaughter will limit access to growing markets.
Post-scandal squeeze on finances sparks asset sales, cutbacks.
In letter, EU demands improved checks on meat safety.
Wesley and Joesley Batista have combined debt of $790 million.
Beef trade protocols with China have been finalized by USDA.
Deal paves way for more trade negotiations in coming months.
Interest driven by export potential, Ontilcor director says.
China will finally open its borders to U.S. beef while cooked Chinese poultry is closer to hitting the U.S. market as part of a U.S.-China trade agreement.
Major importers ban Brazil shipments after food-safety scandal.
Imports halted from 1 plant of BRF and 1 Seara facility.
Farmers across the fertile pampas are getting ready to empty silo bags of corn and soybeans after years of withholding part of their crop in anger over tax policies.
For JBS, the Venezuelan market now has special significance. It has a $2.1 billion contract and provides almost half the meat and a quarter of the chicken eaten by 28 million carnivorous Venezuelans.
Squeezed by 16 months of falling prices and a shrinking export market, French cattle ranchers turned to protests this week at 18 slaughterhouses around the country.
Important ag customer Japan and the United States are trying to come to terms on a trade agreement before Shinzo Abe arrives in Washington. If successful, U.S. producers could see lower tariffs on their goods.
American rancher Darrell Stevenson formed Stevenson-Sputnik LLC with two Russian partners in 2010 and has since transplanted about 1,500 head of cattle by air and sea to their ranch.
For the second time this week a member of the Batista family, owners of the world’s largest meat packing company, has been arrested in Brazil.
PE investments push Daniel Dantas’s fortune to $1.8 billion.
Brazil was plunged back into a political crisis reminiscent of last year’s impeachment saga following reports that President Michel Temer was embroiled in an alleged cover-up scheme involving the jailed former speaker of the lower house of Congress.
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Many U.S. commodities may be slapped with tariffs if the WTO approves the list.