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Asian investment boom seen in Latin America
Selling soybeans, iron and copper ore and other commodities to Asian countries has transformed Latin America over the past decade, stabilizing economies despite worldwide crises and lifting tens of millions of people into the middle class. Now, say officials from … Continue reading
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Soybeans rule the range on Argentina plains
In a country famous for its beef, ranchers are trading their livestock for soy crops, a safer, faster and more lucrative business. By Chris Kraul | Los Angeles Times As a kid, fifth-generation Argentine cattleman Mario Caceres often dressed up … Continue reading
Farmland Investments Overview
With stock markets gyrating wildly and bonds offering little reward, investors are pouring billions into farms; you can’t eat gold Perry Vieth baled hay on a neighbor’s farm in Wisconsin for two summers during high school in 1972 and 1973. … Continue reading
Bunge Reports Strong Second Quarter Results
Bunge Limited’s management will host a conference call today to discuss the company’s results. Additionally, a slide presentation to accompany the discussion of results will be posted in the company´s website . Results in the second quarter improved in most … Continue reading
Rabobank Report: China’s Increasing Investments in South American Agribusiness
July 2011 | PRNewswire A new report by Rabobank’s Food & Agribusiness Research and Advisory (FAR) department examines the exponential rise of Chinese investments in South America, particularly in Brazilian and Argentine agribusiness. The volume of investment projects by Chinese … Continue reading
Argentina to receive more Chinese investments this year
By China Daily | July 2011 More Chinese investments are expected to flow to Argentina this year as the two governments signed several economic cooperation agreements this week, Luis Kreckler, Argentine secretary of trade and international economic relations, said on … Continue reading
Brazil’s farmland prices rising due to strong soybean market
July 2011 | Agrimoney.com Elevated soybean prices have offset the uncertainty caused by curbs on foreign ownership to accelerate growth in Brazilian farmland prices, data from SLC Agricola show. The Brazilian cotton-to-corn farming group said that independent consultants had, in … Continue reading
Unasur forecasts South America’s decade
A new global order is emerging as a result of the world crisis and recession in developed countries and Latin America has a crucial role to play given its very satisfactory economic performance in recent years, said Unasur Secretary … Continue reading
Brazil prepares new bill to allow farmland foreign ownership
According to a source at the Presidential Chief of Staff’s Office, Brazil’s government is preparing a bill that would once again allow foreigners to buy over 5,000 hectares (12,350 acres) of land subject to prior government approval. Congress must approve … Continue reading
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Biggest South America Corporate Farm Groups
With agricultural commodity prices at multi-year highs, buying farmland is seen as a more direct way to cash in on valuable crops and to take advantage of long-term appreciation of farm property. As a result, investors from around the world … Continue reading
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Noble Group construirá una nueva planta de biodisel en Santa Fe
Directivos de la empresa Noble Argentina -una subsidiaria de Noble Grain que forma parte de la división Agricultura de la empresa global Noble Group- anunciaron una inversión de 50 millones de dólares para construir una planta de biodiesel con una … Continue reading
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The South American agricultural landscape
June 2011 | by Simon Adamson An arable crop of over a quarter of a billion tonnes is hard to imagine, but that’s what Argentina and Brazil are harvesting right now. Favorable weather, yields and prices have … Continue reading
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British business firms wake up to Brazil´s opportunities
21 June 2011 | BBC News It is good news that the deputy prime minister is in Brazil with a high-level ministerial and business delegation. This is the most senior UK visit to Brazil since April 2009 when … Continue reading
Brazil Announces 2011-12 Farm Credit Plan
Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will announce the country’s official farm credit plan on Friday with the stated aim of supporting the wave of agriculture investment in South America. As is normally the way with the annual plan, the Agriculture Minister … Continue reading
Energy and Food prices shoot up together
June 9, 2011 by FoodWorks Agriculture and food prices are all about good soil, sunshine and water and the hard labour of farmers, right? Well…. partly, yes of course. But they are also highly dependent on the cost of energy. … Continue reading
Brazil registers the first legal actions against foreign farmland acquisition ban
The change in the rules for land acquisition by foreigners is causing a commotion in Brazil agriculture industry. Vendors and buyers in rural areas are starting to litigate to see who will pay for the restriction prejudices derived from a … Continue reading
Brazil’s 2010/2011 crop of grains and oilseeds is estimated to reach 161.5 million tons
The area cultivated increased 3.8% totalling 49.1 million hectares, 1.82 million hectares more, and a significant boost from 2009/2010 with 47.4 million hectares. The increase was mostly attributed to cotton, first and second harvests of beans, soybeans and rice, besides … Continue reading
Sugar futures surge on Brazil´s sugar production concerns
By Leslie Josephs and Caroline Henshaw Sugar futures surged in New York and London on concerns that Brazil would produce less sugar than expected this year. Brazil is the top grower of sugarcane, producing about 557 million metric tons … Continue reading
Uruguay sees China as a leading trade and investment partner of all Mercosur countries
Uruguay has kept good relations with Beijing since the two countries forged diplomatic ties in 1988, said Uruguayan Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro, a former ambassador to China from 2007-2009. Almagro made the statement as Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping begun … Continue reading
Uruguay discussing new taxation on land holdings
President Jose Mujica last Monday during the cabinet meeting presented a fiscal proposal, elaborated with the head of the Planning Office which considers three main brackets: over 2.000 hectares, 8 US dollars per hectare; over 5.000 hectares, 12 USD per … Continue reading
New Zealand delegation increases NZ- South America economic ties
New Zealand’s political and economic ties with South America gained a valuable boost from the recent visit to the continent by a Parliamentary delegation, The Speaker, Dr The Rt Hon Lockwood Smith, said today. “The delegation members met … Continue reading
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Top 10 hedge funds business horizons
The top 10 hedge funds made $28bn for clients in the second half of last year, $2bn more than the net profits of Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, Barclays and HSBC combined, according to new data. Even … Continue reading
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Argentine group El Tejar became the biggest soy farmer in Mato Grosso´s region
Argentina-based Ag company El Tejar harvested approximately 680,000 metric tons (25 million bushels) of soybeans in Mato Grosso -Brazil’s main producing state- during the 2010-11 season, ending the decade-long reign of Erai Maggi, whose Bom Futuro group produced 576,000 tons … Continue reading
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Las oportunidades de América del Sur en el negocio de las bananas
Fuente: Mariano Winograd para Clarín Rural El negocio de la banana implica hoy en Argentina una torta anual de 500 millones de dólares. La etapa minorista recibe el 40%, la distribución mayorista y maduración un 20%, y la importación un … Continue reading