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Couple leaves traditional jobs, bets on a rare business, creates a frog farm with 100,000 giant frogs in 108 pens in the far west of Santa Catarina and is already projecting growth.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 31/05/2026 at 16:39

Agribusiness

Owner of the largest pig farm on the planet, the Chinese company Muyuan Foods sent executives to Mato Grosso to study pig production in Brazil, as a step by China to get closer to the source of feed and ensure food security, although the investment has not yet been confirmed.

Bruno Teles 31/05/2026 at 08:35

Agribusiness

The bill may become expensive for Brazilian slaughterhouses, with five plants suspended by China and the 2026 quota more than half expected, any shipment arriving late at Chinese ports may be surcharged by 55%, precisely when margins are already tight.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 30/05/2026 at 16:37

Agribusiness

In Brazil, a farm impresses: larger than the São Paulo Metropolitan Area, it has 800 km of internal roads, a thousand residents, and produces soy and meat to supply China and Europe.

Romário Pereira de Carvalho 30/05/2026 at 14:56

Agribusiness

Exports of Minas Gerais agribusiness fall to US$ 5.8 billion in the first four months, but Minas maintains national strength with coffee, meat on the rise, and sales to 160 countries.

Fabio Lucas Carvalho 30/05/2026 at 13:32

Agribusiness

Imagine raising tons of fish in the middle of the sea using only a cell phone. This is what’s happening in Fuzhou, China, where zero-carbon smart platforms already produce more than 2,200 tons of seafood per year and are expected to reach 15 units.

Maria Heloisa Barbosa Borges 29/05/2026 at 22:44

Agribusiness

Brazil prepares for a record coffee export with 50 million bags, a historic harvest, and low global stocks, but El Niño threatens the flowering and could change prices, sales, and supply amid the international market race.

Carla Teles 28/05/2026 at 23:09

Agribusiness

Starting from December 2026, Europe tightens restrictions on soy, meat, and coffee from Brazil and requires traceability to the origin, creating a “green passport” that may determine which farms, slaughterhouses, and exporters will still be able to sell to the European bloc.

Valdemar Medeiros 28/05/2026 at 22:58

Agribusiness

China is depleting Brazil’s donkeys: animals sold for up to R$ 10 in Ceará become a R$ 1,500 product in Asia, while the population plummets by 94%.

Alisson Ficher 28/05/2026 at 16:36

Agribusiness

Bacterial disease already affects almost half of the Brazilian citrus belt, causes losses of US$ 120 million per year, deforms green oranges, and threatens the country that dominates the global orange juice market while the US and Europe increasingly depend on Brazil.

Valdemar Medeiros 28/05/2026 at 14:30

Agribusiness

Brazilian soybean meal exporters may gain a window of opportunity in Asia after India canceled export contracts for the first time since 2021, creating room for Brazil to supply buyers such as Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Japan.

Bruno Teles 28/05/2026 at 12:38

Agribusiness

World’s best-selling pesticide becomes a target in Brazil, puts Anvisa against the wall, and opens a giant dispute over health, crops, and the environment.

Viviane Alves 28/05/2026 at 12:27

Agribusiness

Couple leaves traditional jobs, bets on a rare business, creates a frog farm with 100,000 giant frogs in 108 pens in the far west of Santa Catarina and is already projecting growth.

Owner of the largest pig farm on the planet, the Chinese company Muyuan Foods sent executives to Mato Grosso to study pig production in Brazil, as a step by China to get closer to the source of feed and ensure food security, although the investment has not yet been confirmed.

The bill may become expensive for Brazilian slaughterhouses, with five plants suspended by China and the 2026 quota more than half expected, any shipment arriving late at Chinese ports may be surcharged by 55%, precisely when margins are already tight.

In Brazil, a farm impresses: larger than the São Paulo Metropolitan Area, it has 800 km of internal roads, a thousand residents, and produces soy and meat to supply China and Europe.

Exports of Minas Gerais agribusiness fall to US$ 5.8 billion in the first four months, but Minas maintains national strength with coffee, meat on the rise, and sales to 160 countries.

Imagine raising tons of fish in the middle of the sea using only a cell phone. This is what’s happening in Fuzhou, China, where zero-carbon smart platforms already produce more than 2,200 tons of seafood per year and are expected to reach 15 units.

Brazil prepares for a record coffee export with 50 million bags, a historic harvest, and low global stocks, but El Niño threatens the flowering and could change prices, sales, and supply amid the international market race.

Starting from December 2026, Europe tightens restrictions on soy, meat, and coffee from Brazil and requires traceability to the origin, creating a “green passport” that may determine which farms, slaughterhouses, and exporters will still be able to sell to the European bloc.

China is depleting Brazil’s donkeys: animals sold for up to R$ 10 in Ceará become a R$ 1,500 product in Asia, while the population plummets by 94%.

Bacterial disease already affects almost half of the Brazilian citrus belt, causes losses of US$ 120 million per year, deforms green oranges, and threatens the country that dominates the global orange juice market while the US and Europe increasingly depend on Brazil.

Brazilian soybean meal exporters may gain a window of opportunity in Asia after India canceled export contracts for the first time since 2021, creating room for Brazil to supply buyers such as Vietnam, Bangladesh, and Japan.

World’s best-selling pesticide becomes a target in Brazil, puts Anvisa against the wall, and opens a giant dispute over health, crops, and the environment.

A giant printer called the “Ferrari” of concrete has landed in Latin America and can already build a 120-square-meter house in just 48 hours, making the traditional construction site look like something from the last century.

Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has ceased to be a climatic phenomenon and has become a biological system that feeds on itself, with 8,000 kilometers in length, 37 million tons of algae, and scientists confirm that it is now permanent.

Brazil will harvest a record crop of up to 357 million tons of grains, but it does not have the capacity to store a large part of it. The storage deficit has reached the highest level in history and is equivalent to almost the entire production of Argentina.

End of bricklayers laying brick by brick: robot places more than 2,000 bricks per day, automatically applies cement, works with only one human operator next to the machine, and transforms traditional masonry into a high-speed semi-automated operation.

Scientists have discovered that the Earth recycles its own continents in the depths, dragging pieces of crust down during plate collisions and returning them later as magma, in a mechanism called relamination that has helped build the continents for billions of years.

Turkey is building a billion-dollar shortcut to channel billions of dollars by sea with a 45 km long canal, 275 meters wide and 20.75 meters deep, which promises to relieve the Bosphorus amid the crisis in the Strait of Hormuz.