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President Dilma Rousseff announced the appointment of Katia Abreu as Minister of Agriculture, Livestock, and Food Supply on December 23, 2014.

Canada continues to rank as one of the top destinations for U.S. agricultural exports.

Opportunities exist to expand U.S. food product sales to Canada's food and beverage processing sector.

Milk, cheese, butter and skim milk powder production is forecast to increase in 2015 due to the need to build stocks.

This report outlines regulatory requirements for food and agricultural product imports into Brazil, including import procedures.

Brazilian orange crop for 2014/15 is projected at 400 million 40.8-kg boxes, down 13 million boxes from the previous year.

Weekly minimum grain volumes required to be moved by Canadian railroads, which were set to expire on November 29, 2014, will be extended until March 28, 2015.

From May through September 2014, FAS Brasilia staff visited six of Brazil’s nine states which make up ‘’Amazonia Legal," a political-administrative region situated in the northern half of Brazil.

Post forecasts 2014/15 area planted to cotton at one million hectares with cotton production reaching 6.9 million bales (1.5 million metric tons).

Post reduced its 2014/15 production forecast to 92 mmt, still a record, based on a lower national yield.

The Canadian renewable fuels industry is coming close to reaching its medium term domestic production capacity.

Brazilian coffee production for 2014/15 was revised upward to 51.2 million 60-kg bags, but still off 3.3 million bags from the previous year.