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Brazil maintains tax cut on glyphosate imports Posttime: 2024-10-24: The Brazilian government has maintained the 3.8% import tax on glyphosate from countries outside Mercosur, the South American economic bloc. The Executive Committee of the Foreign Trade Chamber (Gecex) approved maintaining the reduction of the Common External Tariff (TEC) from 10.8% to 3.8% for the most widely used herbicide in agriculture. According to a de...

Argentina launches credit tool for agricultural input purchases Posttime: 2024-10-22: The Argentine government has launched a new credit instrument to help farmers purchase agricultural inputs and machinery. This initiative supports production costs by enabling payments through soybeans or other agricultural products. The Ministry of Economy has named this agricultural credit tool Pagar Valor Producto (Product Value Promissory Note), a type o...

Swiss GMO moratorium to be extended by two years Posttime: 2024-10-18: The Swiss Senates Committee for Science, Education and Culture has acted on a parliamentary initiative from the House of Representatives to this effect. At the beginning of September, the government announced that it would be drafting a special law on the regulation of new plant breeding techniques, which will be put out to consultation by the end of the yea...

USA - Corn and soybean growers critical of Commerce announcement on 2,4-D herbicide tariffs Posttime: 2024-09-17: The National Corn Growers Association (NCGA) and the American Soybean Association (ASA) expressed frustration today with a recently released recommendation by the U.S. Department of Commerce to impose preliminary countervailing duty rates on imports of the herbicide 2,4-D. The decision comes at the behest of domestic herbicide producer Corteva Agriscience, w...

Sugarcane production in Brazil estimated at 689.8 million tons in the 2024/2025 harvest Posttime: 2024-09-06: The estimated Brazilian sugarcane production is 689.8 million tons, according to the data released on August 22 in the 2nd Survey of the 2024-2025 harvest of the product. The volume, if confirmed, will be the second largest to be harvested in the historical series monitored by the National Supply Company (Conab), behind only the production obtained in the pr...

Brazil: Extreme weather caused losses of R$6.7 billion to agriculture this year Posttime: 2024-08-30: Extreme weather events such as the floods that devastated much of Rio Grande do Sul in May and the drought that has been punishing the Amazon before the usual dry season have already caused at least R$6.7 billion in losses for Brazilian agribusiness. Extreme weather is the main culprit for greenhouse gas emissions that cause climate change in Brazil. Accordi...

US EPA publishes new resources on bilingual pesticide labeling Posttime: 2024-08-30: The Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2022 (PRIA 5) requires the safety and health portions of pesticide product labels to be translated into Spanish. Spanish is the primary language for most American farmworkers. This effort advances environmental justice by making health and safety information on pesticide labels more accessible, fostering better u...

China’s total summer grain output in 2024 increased 2.5% versus 2023 Posttime: 2024-07-25: On July 12, the Chinas National Bureau of Statistics released 2024 statistics on national summer grain sown area, per unit output and total output. According to a survey of the 25 summer grain producing provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) in China, the sown area, per unit output and total output of summer grain of China in 2024 are as follows: ...