Tatiana Freitas
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São Paulo, SP, Brazil
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The World Sees Brazil’s Election as a Climate Flashpoint. Brazilians Have Other Concerns
Lula, the favorite against Bolsonaro, is promising to reverse rainforest-destroying policies and protect the climate. He’ll also have to keep the country from going hungry. → Read More
The World’s Cotton Supply Keeps Shrinking, Hit by Drought, Heat
Extreme weather is wreaking havoc upon virtually all of the world’s largest cotton suppliers. In India, the top-producing country, heavy rains and pests have cut into cotton crops so much that the nation is importing supplies. A heat wave in China is raising concerns about the upcoming harvest there. In the US, the largest exporter of the commodity, a worsening drought is ravaging farms and is… → Read More
Groups Urge Investors, Grocers to Drop Brazil’s JBS on Rising Emissions
Environmental groups are calling on JBS SA’s investors and customers to drop the world’s largest meat supplier, claiming its greenhouse gas emissions are rising. → Read More
A Tenth of the World Could Go Hungry While Crops Rot in Fields
The massive spike is happening at a time of enormous global food surpluses, with the pandemic exposing ‘cracks in the system’ → Read More
A Tenth of the World Could Go Hungry While Crops Rot in Fields
The world is hurtling toward an unprecedented hunger crisis. As many as 132 million more people than previously projected could go hungry in 2020, and this year’s gain may be more than triple any increase this century. → Read More
Meat Supply Threats Grow With First Brazil Shutdown, U.S. Turkey Halt
It’s no longer just the U.S. that’s facing a meat scare. Top exporter Brazil is seeing its first plant shutdown, meaning the coronavirus is now snarling supplies from arguably the world’s most critical producer. → Read More
Meat processing employees demand more protection
First worker tested positive for COVID-19 last week, social distancing not possible in processing plants where workers work side by side. → Read More
Bees Are Dropping Dead in Brazil and Sending a Message to Humans
(Bloomberg) -- Death came swiftly for Aldo Machado’s honey bees. Less than 48 hours after the first apis mellifera showed signs of sickness, tens of thousands lay dead, their bodies piled in mounds. → Read More
Farm Deregulation Puts Bolsonaro on Collision Course With Commodity Buyers
Despite the far-right candidate signalling he’ll remove impediments to farming growth, trading houses and oilseed processors won’t be rescinding their commitment to measures aimed at stopping deforestation, according to Abiove, a group representing agribusiness giants including Cargill Inc. and Bunge → Read More
Trump Trade War Divides Farming World as China Demand Shifts
Soybeans have become something of a poster child for the U.S.-China trade war, with everyone from Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin to President Donald Trump opining on the humble oilseed. One of the biggest impacts of China’s 25 percent duties against American soy shipments is the divergence of price → Read More
Despite Tariffs, U.S. Soy Is Still Headed to China. Here's Why
It looks like China can’t completely shun U.S. soybeans as at least a few cargoes of American supplies head to its shores. → Read More
Some Trade War Winners Are Finding Ways to Lose
These should be jubilant times across the sprawling savanna of southeastern Brazil. Soybean is king here. And with the China-U.S. trade war pushing Chinese buyers to frantically search the globe for alternatives to American soy, Brazil is the most logical first stop. → Read More
Brazil May Buy Up to 1 Million Metric Tons of U.S. Soybeans
Brazil, the world’s biggest soybean exporter, may import as much as 1 million metric tons from its main rival in global sales in a twist of the topsy-turvy trade row between the U.S. and China. → Read More
Brazil May Buy Up to 1 Million Metric Tons of U.S. Soybeans
Brazil, the world’s biggest soybean exporter, may import as much as 1 million metric tons from its main rival in global sales in a twist of the topsy-turvy trade row between the U.S. and China. As American soybean shipments to China ease, they’re being discounted. → Read More
Brazil May Buy Up to 1 Million Metric Tons of U.S. Soybeans
As American soybean shipments to China ease, rising demand for Brazilian beans has exports fetching a premium. → Read More
U.S. Soy Prices Are Crumbling as Trade War Sparks Brazil Rally
Soybean prices in the U.S. and Brazil, the nations that account for roughly 80 percent of global exports, have taken drastically different paths thanks to Donald Trump’s trade war. → Read More
Trade Spat to Turn U.S. Into Top EU Soybean Supplier
It’s not all bad news for U.S. soybean farmers when it comes to the trade spat with China. → Read More
How to Thrive During a Stock Market Meltdown: Sell Soybeans
While Brazil’s stock market and currency are suffering through a drought, one farming company is proving to be a bumper crop for investors. → Read More
How to Thrive During a Stock Market Meltdown: Sell Soybeans
While Brazil’s stock market and currency are suffering through a drought, one farming company is proving to be a bumper crop for investors. SLC Agricola SA, which cultivates an area bigger than Rhode Island with soybeans, corn and cotton, has seen its shares rally more than 67 percent so far this year → Read More
Trucker Protests Show Some Signs of Easing: Brazil Strike Update
Brazil’s trucker strike entered the ninth straight day amid signs that the protests may be shrinking. → Read More