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Brazil will host the 30th Conference of the Parties (COP30), to take place in Belém, Pará, from November 10-21, 2025.

Brazil presents growth potential for consumer oriented products, especially among the 40 million high-income consumers who are open to new, quality imports, while the country's robust food processing sector offers significant prospects for inputs of U.S. commodities and ingredients.

Brazil and the People’s Republic of China (PRC) are in the initial stages of potentially developing a dedicated soybean supply chain tailored to meet Chinese sustainability and quality standards.

Established in 2006, Brazil’s Soy Moratorium bans the sale of soybeans grown on land deforested in the Amazon biome after July 2008, significantly reducing deforestation linked to soy expansion.

Major bulk commodities, as a share of total U.S. agricultural exports, have risen and fallen dramatically since 2020. Beyond short-term price volatilities that have largely driven these developments, changes to the largest overseas market and an increasingly competitive landscape also affect the prospect for major U.S. bulk exports.

Post forecasts Brazil’s 2018/19 marketing year (MY) cotton area to reach 1.4 million hectares (ha), an increase of 19 percent compared to the previous MY.

Researchers at Texas A&M University, along with USDA Economic Research Service agricultural economist Constanza Valdes, recently published a study on Brazil’s potential as a customer and competitor...

ATO/São Paulo revised production upward 5 percent from the record Brazilian coffee crop for Marketing Year (MY) 2018/19 (July-June) to 63.4 million 60-kg bags, due to better agricultural....

Post revised all dairy tables for calendar year 2018 to reflect problems suffered by dairy producers.

Brazil’s GDP reached R$6.6 trillion (US$2 trillion) in 2017. This represented not only an increase of 1 percent growth, but also a way out of the recession that hit Brazil in 2014.

Market year 2018/19 corn production is forecast higher at 95 MMT based on an expected return to normal yields and expanded safrinha area in response to higher prices.

Brazil’s MY 2018/19 sugarcane crush has been revised down to 610 million metric tons (mmt), due to dry weather in the major growing areas of São Paulo and Parana during the harvest season.