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On September 7, 2015, SAE published an announcement in the Diario Oficial (Federal Register) containing the public tender for the last five state-owned sugar mills.

Due to the presence of the El Niño current, rains were close to normal levels in most of the country 2015.

During its June budgetary deliberations the Barbadian Parliament modified the basket of food items eligible for VAT free consideration.

Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in the United States is a concern for the sector. Appropriate measures to cope with AI outbreaks would allow a continued two percent growth during 2016.

Cattle inventories continue declining but financial programs to repopulate the domestic herd and improved genetics would contribute for a future stabilization.

A new rail border crossing was inaugurated Aug.25 at the Brownsville – Matamoros Port of Entry.

Uruguayan beef exports for 2016 are forecast at 395,000 tons carcass weight equivalent (cwe), the highest in the past ten years.

Paraguayan beef exports in 2016 are forecast 435,000 tons carcass weight equivalent (cwe). This record is expected as a result of increased beef output and a steady foreign demand.

Post forecasts both beef and pork production to increase by two percent in 2016 to 9.6 million metric tons and 3.5 million metric tons, respectively.

On August 19, 2015 a Mexican federal judge from the XII District Court overturned a 2013 ruling that had prevented biotechnology companies, universities, or public research institutes from planting...

Colombian biofuels production cannot fulfill policy expectations as a result of production deficiencies and insular policies that restrict trade.

Ecuador’s tuna fishery in 2015 is staring at lower prices. Prices are suffering due to oversupply, reportedly driven by overfishing, at a time of weakening demand for tuna and tuna products...