AgribusinessOxfam Novib's 'Toxic Trade' report says EU countries exported nearly 122,000 tonnes of pesticides banned at home in 2024, with Brazil the second-largest buyer after the United States.
OpinionWriting in Down To Earth, Swasti Pachauri traces açaí's rise from an Amazonian staple to a wellness trend and argues India can turn jamun, amla, phalsa and other native fruits into products, if communities share the gains.
CropsThe agriculture ministry has frozen filings for formulants, solvents and other non-active ingredients while it reworks a module of the unified registration system launched in May, with no reopening date.
LivestockThe European Commission says it will propose lifting its ban on Brazilian poultry meat and honey after a positive audit, while Brazil cannot yet reliably certify that its beef meets the EU's lifetime requirements.
LivestockBrazilian egg shipments reached 2,686 tonnes in September, ABPA says, while the January-September total is down 34% because of last year's exceptional US purchases during its bird flu outbreak.
CropsKynetec's FarmTrak survey found 107 treatments a season on average, up from 95, with boll weevil control alone costing about R$2 billion as pest pressure per hectare climbs.
LivestockThe case in a state with about 15% of Brazil's poultry output raises the prospect of a Chinese import suspension under the trade protocol, the meat industry group ABPA says.
EnvironmentThrough the Symbiosis Coalition, the two companies will buy 320,000 tonnes of carbon removal credits over ten years from Working Trees, which plants timber and native trees into grazed pasture.
AgribusinessCorteva expects biological products to take up to a third of the world crop protection market within a decade, and is using Brazil, where 65% of growers already use them, to develop and export them.
OrganicIbama says it reviews bioinput dossiers in about half the time the law allows and has almost no backlog, while farm groups fear the pending decree under Brazil's Bioinputs Law will slow approvals.
CropsA USDA Economic Research Service study comparing the US Heartland with Brazil's Mato Grosso finds Brazilian costs per acre far lower, mainly on land and double cropping, while US corn yields are nearly double.
AgrotechZema Global will carry SatYield's satellite-based, in-season yield, production and acreage estimates for the US and Brazil, giving commodity traders an independent read on crops before official figures.
CropsBrazil's agriculture ministry is concentrating on the decree that will put its 2024 bioinputs law into practice, even if work on the pesticides law's decree slows, and the bioinputs industry association backs the choice while asking for simpler, digital procedures.
CropsANVISA has added metproxybicyclone, a new ACCase-inhibitor subclass aimed at grass weeds resistant to glyphosate and clethodim, to its list of regulated pesticide ingredients, a required step for Syngenta's Perforze OD herbicide in soybean and cotton.
AgribusinessPotassium chloride prices at Brazilian ports have fallen 10 percent after nine straight weekly declines, while urea has risen 20 percent in five weeks, because the two fertilisers come from very different suppliers.
LivestockRabobank analysts say Brazil, now the world's largest beef producer and exporter, is redirecting meat that China's quotas no longer take into markets that matter to Australian exporters.
CropsConab projects a record 2026/27 Brazilian soybean harvest of about 181.6 million tonnes on 49.3 million hectares, while AgRural says only 7.3 percent of the area was planted by early October against 9.0 percent a year earlier.
AgribusinessIndustry group Abiove says demand for soybean oil for biodiesel and for soymeal for animal feed drove the expansion, and it expects a record crush of 63.5 million tonnes in 2026.
CropsUSDA estimates put Brazilian soybeans landed in Shanghai at about $479 to $507 a tonne in the second quarter, below US Gulf and Pacific Northwest routes, and Brazil shipped about ten times as much.
In an AgriBusiness Global column, EarthDaily's Andres Umana writes that insurers face a surge of demand just as losses are expected, and are capping exposure, tightening cut-off dates and turning to satellite data.
CropsHot, dry weather could fuel severe Bemisia tabaci outbreaks in the 2026/27 season; a consultant says unmanaged infestations can cut yields by 10 to 70 percent and urges treatment at the first nymphs.
CropsFAO marked the first International Coffee Day, designated by the UN General Assembly in March, pointing to the up to 25 million farmers, mostly smallholders, who grow a crop traded at more than $34 billion a year.
CropsStoneX expects corn to supply a third of Brazil's ethanol by 2027/28, and Inpasa, the world's second-largest producer, turns second-crop corn into fuel, cattle feed and oil for other biofuels.
AgrotechThe US startup's engineered soil microbes switch on nitrogen production around a crop's roots about six weeks after planting; Brazil's biosafety approval opens field trials in a country that imports most of its fertiliser.
LivestockBrazilian beef now pays a 55% safeguard tariff plus the 12% standard duty in China until 1 January, raising Australian fears of more Brazilian beef in the US, while Argentina says it has won access to Japan.
CropsAscribe Bio's Phytalix switches on the plant's own defences rather than poisoning the fungus, giving growers a new rotation option against resistant diseases; efficacy data are company-reported.
AgrotechA University of Sao Paulo geneticist says biological pest and disease control, such as the bacteria strains his university's company Genica develops, could double output on existing land.
AgribusinessMato Grosso land reached $11,145 an acre in 2022 before falling to $9,066 in 2025, while Iowa land rose to $11,549, leaving Iowa 27% higher.
AgrotechBrazilian machinery maker Jacto will factory-install DeepAgro's SprAI camera system on its whole selective-sprayer line; trials with Amaggi on 13,000 hectares of cotton saved about 26,000 litres of glufosinate.
AgribusinessFMC has submitted its regulatory dossier for rimisoxafen, which it calls the first dual mode of action herbicide, to Brazilian authorities, targeting resistant broadleaf weeds such as Amaranthus in soybeans and corn.
LivestockEuropean Commission auditors found Brazil's antimicrobial controls meet EU rules for poultry meat and honey, a step towards lifting a suspension in force since 3 September; beef exports are not expected to return before 2028.
AgrotechValeouro Biotec and startup Symbiomics will co-develop biological crop inputs from genetically reprogrammed microbes, starting with a biofungicide for soybeans, corn, cotton and sugarcane; a new biofactory is due around 2029.
CropsBrazil's Embrapa Florestas has opened licensing of four yerba mate cultivars, BRS 408, BRS 409, BRS BLD Aupaba and BRS BLD Yari, bred for different yields, shade tolerance and flavour.
EnvironmentA Carbon Brief analysis finds Amazon deforestation more than halved between 2022 and 2025 as Brazil enforced its forest code, avoiding at least 20,000 square kilometres of clearing, while the end of the soy moratorium adds new risk.
Market ManagementShipments to China fell to 16,136 tonnes in August, and China's share of Brazil's beef exports dropped from 32.1% to 7.1%, Cepea and Secex data show.
FruitsResearchers in Bahia found the susceptibility gene MusaDMR6 surges after Fusarium infection, making it a candidate target for breeding or CRISPR editing.
