South America
Cattle imports start 2012 higher, expected to tighten into 2013
Cattle imports through the first half of the year were 22 percent higher than a year ago. Imports are higher from both Mexico (up 31 percent) and Canada (up 6 percent).
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Brazil meatpacker JBS posts Q2 profit of $83.6 million
Brazil's JBS SA, the world's biggest beef producer, posted a profit of $83.64 million in the second quarter.
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Mexican drought impacts on U.S. cattle imports
Increased imports of Mexican cattle have supplemented dwindling U.S. feeder cattle supplies the past two years. Mexican cattle imports increased 16 percent from 2010 to 2011 to 1.42 million head. This level is 29 percent above the average annual imports for the ten years from 2001 to 2010 and was second only to the record 1995 level of 1.65 million head.
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Rancher excited about U.S. beef’s prospects in Latin America
Nebraska rancher Rod Gray was one of several hundred cattlemen who gathered in Denver last week for the Cattle Industry Summer Conference.
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Argentine farmers to end strike, warn of more protests
Argentine farmers said they would allow a one-week freeze on grains sales to end as planned on Tuesday, but threatened to stage more anti-government protests against taxes and export curbs.
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Strike slows flow of grains to top Argentine port
Grain trucks entering Argentina's main port of Rosario slowed to a trickle on Monday due to a five-day-old sales strike by farmers, but exports remained uninterrupted due to ample dockside reserves.
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Argentine grain farmers call national sales freeze
Argentine farmers announced a one-week nationwide halt to grain sales this week to protest higher taxes in key farming province Buenos Aires, a move that lifted U.S. soy futures as traders braced for tight supplies.
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Argentina says farm strike will not slow exports
Trucks hauled their normal loads of corn and soybeans into Argentina's main grains hub of Rosario o n M onday, but a sales freeze called by farmers protesting a tax hike in the country's top farm province slowed business at No. 2 port Bahia Blanca.
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Argentine farmers protest as tax bill progresses
Lawmakers in Argentina's biggest grains province started debating a bill o n T hursday to hike land taxes despite strike threats by farmers who say the reform would drive some growers out of business.
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Argentina may have bumper soy, corn crop next year
Argentine growers could gather bumper soybean and corn harvests next season as forecasts for wetter weather bring hope to drought-hit farms, a senior USDA official said on Wednesday.
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Argentina orders grains strike suspension
Argentina's government ordered union leaders o n this week to suspend a planned pay strike by oilseed-crushing workers in the grains export hub of Rosario and hold talks with bosses, an industry source said.
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- What’s on America’s grill this weekend?
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- Tyson sends disaster-assistance truck to Oklahoma
- More beef cows in worst drought regions than a year ago
- Forage Focus: Pay attention to hay moisture
- Oil falls as Fed minutes send U.S. equities down
- Post-tornado composting a solution for disposal of dead livestock
- Michigan hay buyers should plan purchases early
- Seven jobs more dangerous than farming
- New animal identification rules aid disease traceability
- Former Eastern Livestock CEO, CFO sentenced for federal crimes
- Drought losses in Oklahoma top $400 million for 2012
