At 35 years of age, Passos Ribeiro has seven children and a future to look out for. So much so that one day she reached the ...

Nelore cows graze on the Fazenda Novo Mundo farm, a 10,000 acre cattle and fertilizer operation in southeastern Brazil. During a recent trip to Brazil, I had an opportunity to visit a large farm ...

A Brazilian Farm Success Story Protecting the Forest Brazil is home to about one-eighth of the world’s forests. I’m one of many farmers who would like to keep it this way—and we will if the ...

But by acquiring American giants such as Swift and Pilgrim's Pride, JBS grew from a $1 billion private company into a $40 billion behemoth that slaughters 90,000 head of cattle a day, employs ...

Researchers at the state-owned Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) have been searching for a way to counteract the emissions from the country's massive cattle herd ...

Brazil’s major meat companies say they want to implement full traceability of cattle by 2025. But Brazil already has the necessary tools to identify cattle farmers who cut forest illegally.

Under the state’s CAR database, the farm’s registration states that the total area of the property is 70 hectares (172.97 acres), with at most 47 hectares (116.14 acres) for production, yet ...

The problem is that taurine cattle suffer heat stress and do not produce good yields on low-quality pastures. Since 2005, the four Brazilian breeds have been genetically identified using ...

JBS, a giant Brazilian firm once fined billions for bribery, is trading on the New York Stock Exchange. Some credit President ...

Seventeen countries have lifted import restrictions on Brazilian poultry after the South American country was declared free ...

The owner of Fazenda Estrela do Aripuanã, the farm where Ale said he picked up the skinny cattle, was fined R2.2m (£340,000) for destroying a swathe of the Amazon rainforest on land at that ranch. And ...

The report from the European Commission shows that Brazil cannot prove its beef supplied to the EU market is not treated with oestradiol 17ß. Current regulations mean that cattle treated with the ...