Brazil Co Pena Branca: In Due Diligence With Tyson
BRAZIL - Privately held Brazilian chicken company Pena Branca is in the final stages of due diligence with U.S. Tyson Foods (TSN) for a possible joint venture, Pena Branca's director told Dow Jones Newswires on Wednesday.

Brazil's Perdigao In Merger Talks With Local Rival
SAO PAULO - Brazilian poultry and pork producer Perdigao SA and local rival Eleva Alimentos SA are in talks about a potential merger, the companies said late on Thursday.

Big Dutchman Booth Attracted Many Visitors
BRAZIL - At the Latin American Poultry Congress and show end of September 2007 in Porto Alegre, Brazil, the Big Dutchman product range once again attracted a lot of visitors.

Chinese Blockade On Brazilian Meat Stalls Bilateral Trade
BRAZIL - China’s restriction on Brazilian meat is one of the main obstacles to increased trade between the two countries, the executive-secretary of the Brazil-China Business Council (CEBC) told Macauhub.

World Eats Chicken Again and Brazil Earns 52% More Exporting Poultry
BRAZIL - The largest foreign market for Brazilian chicken continues to be the Middle East. The Brazilian Poultry Exporters Association (Abef) informed this Tuesday, October 9, that 718,000 tons of the product were shipped to that region from January...

With Avian Flu Fear Gone Brazil Doubles Chicken Exports
BRAZIL - Brazilian chicken meat exports totaled US$ 440 million in July, representing an increase of 106% compared with the same month of last year. A total of 284,000 tons were shipped, 53% more than in July 2006. The data were disclosed by...

Despite Sales Increase Brazil's Chicken Exporters Are Losing Money
BRAZIL - Brazilian chicken exports yielded US$ 2.145 billion in the first half of this year, an increase of 47% in comparison with the same period in 2006. The export volume reached 1.544 million tons, an increase of 24.4%. The data were disclosed by...

Chicken exports grow by 47%
BRAZIL - Brazilian chicken exports yielded US$ 2.145 billion in the first half of this year, an increase of 47% in comparison with the same period in 2006. The export volume reached 1.544 million tonnes, an increase of 24.4%. The data were disclosed today...

With Avian Flu Behind Brazil's Chicken Exports Grow 85%
BRAZIL - exported around US$ 400 million in chicken meat during the month of May, an increase of 84.9% over the same month last year, according to information disclosed in São Paulo yesterday, June 18, by the Brazilian Poultry Exporters Association (Abef)....

Leadership In Agribusiness
BRAZIL - FAO, USDA, World Bank and UN forecasts show that Brazil should be the main world producer and supplier of foods by 2017. Today, ANBA starts publishing a series of articles about the future of national agriculture.

Brazilain Chicken exports up 21% in February
BRAZIL - Revenues from foreign sales of the commodity had a 21.48% increase compared with the same month last year. A total of 232,200 tonnes were shipped, 16,76% more than in February 2006. In the accumulated result for the year, the Middle Eastern countries...

Perdigão Profits Fall 8%
BRAZIL - Perdigão, the large Brazilian Food Company, had its 2006 financial statements hurt by a weakeness in its key export markets despite encouraging growth in domestic sales.

Avipal group to have stand at Gulfood
BRAZIL - The Brazilian food industry, which produces meats and dairy products, exports to nine Arab countries and sees in the region a market that is becoming more and more promising. The fair, which begins today, in Dubai, is the largest in the food...

Aviagen Expands Business in Brazil
BRAZIL - Aviagen, the world’s leading poultry breeding company, has reached an agreement to purchase the poultry breeding facilities and assets from the poultry business unit of the Agroceres Group. A new company, Aviagen do Brasil, will now serve customers...

Brazil Reports Stable Broiler Production
BRAZIL - The Brazilian Broiler Chick Producer’s Association Apinco, has reported that broiler production remained virtually unchanged in the Country last year.

Move over, turkey; make room for Chester
BRAZIL - Instead of turkey for the holidays, many Brazilians are opting for Chester, a pumped-up chicken that costs less than turkey and has more meat than a standard chicken.

Naturovos sees massive growth in Arab egg market
BRAZIL - Brazilian company Naturovos, a producer of chicken eggs, started exporting to the Arab market in February this year and after ten months the Arabs already represent 25% of the company's total sales. "It is a market that is growing very much and...

Broilers inks wet ethanol deal with Bauche Energy
BRAZIL - Robert Levy, presi-dent and CEO of the Jamaica Broilers Group (JBG), has inked a deal with Switzerland-based Bauche Energy guaranteeing a source of wet ethanol for his planned $1.1 billion (US$17 million) dehy-dration plant, but the company remains...

Despite current woes, Brazil seen as U.S. farm rival
BRAZIL - When Paulo Sergio Franz guns a mud-splattered pickup past a spread of white Brahman cattle and wide expanses of newly planted soybeans, it becomes evident this is no ordinary family farm.

Hubbard Establishes Its Own (G)GP Operation In Brazil
BRAZIL - As part of its global strategy for further expansion and as part of their own production network, Hubbard has established its own (G)GP operation in Brazil and its own subsidiary called “Hubbard do Brasil”.

Brazil’s Perdigao Eyes Beef, International Chicken Investments
BRAZIL - Brazilian meatpacker Perdigao SA (PDA) said it will likely build a beef packing facility in Goias state in the first semester of 2007, the company’s top executives told a gathering of reporters Tuesday.

Renewed Appetite for Chicken in EU Boosts Brazil Perdigão's Bottom Line
BRAZIL - The revenues of food sector company Perdigão, a traditional Brazilian industry in the food sector, recovered in the third quarter of this year, according to figures disclosed by the company.

Perdigao: Third Quarter Indicates Tendency Towards Recovery in Growth
BRAZIL - Perdigao's third quarter 2006 results reflect a tendency towards recovery in relation to the second quarter of the year.

Brazil's Sadia revenues increase 15.5% in the third quarter
BRAZIL - The volume of meats and derivatives sold by food sector company Sadia on the domestic and foreign market grew in the third quarter of this year when compared to the previous quarter.

Newcastle Disease In Brazil
The [Brazilian] Ministry of Agriculture confirmed yesterday [31 Oct 2006] the occurrence of Newcastle disease in 46 poultry in Lambari D'Oeste, in the southeast of Mato Grosso state.