Brazilian Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina, has stated she’s hopeful Brazil will be shipping beef to China again this month. Brazil’s largest market has been closed now for 90 days since exports were suspended after the notification to the World Organization for Animal Health (OIE) that two cases of atypical bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) had been discovered at two separate meat plants – one in Mato Grosso and the other in Minas Gerais. Both cases were determined to be atypical cases. BSE can manifest in two forms - classical and atypical. The incubation period for classical BSE from prion infected feed, from time of infection, thought to occur early in life, until the onset of clinical signs a...
Key Market Insights The broad market is locked in on this week’s Trump-Xi meeting in Beijing, but this is no longer just a trade summit. Increasingly, the meeting is becoming tied directly to Iran, energy security, and the growing global economic fallout from disruptions through the Strai...
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