Items Tagged with 'Brazil'

Syngenta is facing a lawsuit from Brazil’s Attorney General of the Union’s Office (AGU), which claims health and environmental impacts from an insecticide containing a toxic product found at triple the authorized level.

Ethanol champions are pushing the Biden Administration to place additional pressure on Brazil as they seek to loosen tariffs that have sent U.S. exports of the biofuel to the South American nation into a tailspin.

It’s long been a point of pride in American agriculture that the United States exported more than it imported in farm commodities, but that surplus has vanished and may not be coming back anytime soon.

Soybean growers in Brazil already have lower production costs than their U.S. counterparts, and Brazil is making some headway in cutting its inland transportation expenses as well, according to a new study by USDA’s Economic Research Service.

A coalition of biofuels groups is pushing back at a federal appeals court ruling. The 5th U.S. Circuit of Appeals last week vacated multiple denials of small refinery exemption requests from the biofuel blending mandates, ruling that the agency had used an “impermissibly retroactive” standard.

Brazil, a country that produces 42% of the world’s soybeans and 12% of its corn, is intrinsic to global food production, but all of that hinges on the South American nation’s ability to bring in billions of dollars’ worth of fertilizer from thousands of miles away. It’s a situation that Matt Simpson, CEO of the company Brazil Potash, said he wants to help change.

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn “GT” Thompson is acknowledging Speaker Mike Johnson’s plan for a House farm bill debate next month isn’t realistic.