Brazil is positioning itself to overtake Vietnam as the world's largest robusta coffee producer, driven by the crop's climate ...

Farm Rio is a now a certified B Corp after its owner Grupo Soma earned a qualifying score from the B Lab nonprofit working to make business a “force for good.” With a score of 85.1 points out of 200 ...

Brazilian farmers are lobbying to roll back deforestation restrictions in order to sell more soybeans to the huge Chinese ...

NOVA XAVANTINA, Brazil, Oct 23 (Reuters) - Farmers like Endrigo Dalcin are so keen to plant Brazil's biggest-ever soybean crop that they are tearing down the fences around once-sacred territory: ...

RIACHAO DAS NEVES, Brazil (Reuters) - In the Brazilian state of Bahia, farmer Moises Schmidt is developing the world's largest cocoa farm. His plan is to revolutionize the way the main ingredient in ...

While soybeans are the second largest row crop in America, in Mississippi, it is the largest and soybeans compose about 60% of all row crops.

RIO DE JANEIRO, Dec. 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) — Plans by Luis Inacio Lula da Silva to revive vast swaths of degraded pasture are key to his push to protect Brazil's Amazon without alienating ...

U.S. and Brazil agricultural groups differ on many trade issues, but apparently agree Brazilian coffee exports to the U.S. are a blessing for both countries. (Don Jenkins/Capital Press) U.S. and ...

Brazil has more trees than any country except Russia—but when our huge forests make the news, it’s usually because of “deforestation.” My nation and its Amazon region are so incomprehensibly big that ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Brazil, one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of poultry, confirmed Friday the country’s first bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm. The virus was found at a facility ...

SAO PAULO (Reuters) -Brazil identified fresh bird flu cases in wild animals, which it said should not have any commercial impact, and is investigating a new potential case on a commercial farm, ...