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 Perdigăo's Bottom Line
BRAZIL - The revenues of food sector company Perdigăo, 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.

Brazilian meat exports to Kuwait hits US$160 million in 2005
BRAZIL - Brazil is now the top exporter of meat and poultry to Kuwait exporting nearly US$160 million worth of the product to the state in 2005.

Brazil Cuts Poultry Slaughter By 14% In Q2
BRAZIL - Brazil's National Statistics Institute reports that a total of 874 million head of poultry were slaughtered in Brazil in the second quarter of this year, a decrease of 13.9 per cent as compared with the first quarter of this year and 8.0 per...

Chicken market in Egypt moves Brazilian companies
SAO PAULO - The opening of the Egyptian market to chicken imports is motivating Brazilian companies to negotiate with local industries, increasing exports to the Arab country.

Brazil starts exporting chicken to Egypt
BRAZIL - Sao Paulo - Brazil has started exporting large volumes of chicken meat to the Egyptian market. According to newspaper Al Ahram, the main paper in the African-Arab country, 20,000 tonnes of frozen chicken, produced in Brazil, arrived in Egypt...

Brazil's Sadia to supply Russian McDonald's with chicken
SAO PAULO - Brazil's largest chicken company, Sadia (SDA), said Thursday that its new chicken meat processing plant in Russia will produce chicken sandwich meat for McDonald's Corp. (MCD). Sadia's investor's relations office said on Friday that...

Brazil soy industry boycotts beans from the Amazon
BRAZIL - Brazilian soy crushers and exporters will stop buying soybeans grown in the Amazon basin for the time being, industry groups said on Monday, bowing to pressure from activist groups trying to preserve the rain forest. The moratorium, which...

New sales structure for Cobb 500 in Brazil
BRAZIL - As the new $4.5 million parent stock hatchery in Mato Grosso do Sul begins production, Cobb-Vantress Brasil has announced changes to the future distribution of the breed.