2+ mon, 13+ hour ago   (730+ words) —The pick. President-elect De la Espriella named Indalecio Dangond as agriculture minister. —Who he is. A rural-finance specialist with about four decades in the farm sector. —The plan. His priorities are banking farmers, titling land and building irrigation. —The scale....

7+ mon, 4+ day ago   (412+ words) Across the highlands of Junín, Cusco and Huancavelica, February rains are already loosening slopes that have swallowed roads and homes in previous years. Peru’s disaster prevention agency Cenepred has now mapped the full threat: 5.3 million hectares of farmland face high…...

7+ mon, 3+ week ago   (290+ words) Credit stress is rising inside Brazil’s agribusiness. Serasa Experian put rural delinquency at 8.3% in Q3 2025. That was 0.9 percentage points higher than Q3 2024. It was also 0.2 points above Q2 2025. Serasa counts rural people with debts overdue by more than 180 days. It applies a minimum…...

8+ mon, 4+ week ago   (297+ words) Paraguay’s latest headline is simple: a strong 2025, then a slower 2026. Central bank president Carlos Carvallo says GDP should rise about 6% this year and 4.2% next year. He forecasts inflation of 3.6% in 2025 and 3.5% in 2026. That matters for planning. The story behind the…...

9+ mon, 3+ day ago   (300+ words) Brazil’s agribusiness outlook sounds like a paradox. The farm lobby CNA projects agribusiness GDP will grow 9.6% in 2025, then barely 1% in 2026. Fields are still expanding, but the financial fuel that kept the boom going is sputtering. CNA expects the 2025/26 grain and…...

9+ mon, 1+ week ago   (393+ words) Brazil is often sold as an agricultural success story: record soybean cargoes leaving northern ports, new land coming into production, and supermarket shelves abroad stacked with Brazilian beef, coffee and orange juice. Behind that bright picture, 2025 has exposed a darker…...

9+ mon, 2+ week ago   (358+ words) Lately, a growing number of farmers have ended up not at export terminals, but in court. They are using “judicial recovery”, Brazil’s version of Chapter 11, to try to save heavily indebted farms. Until recently, most producers could not even apply....

10+ mon, 1+ day ago   (360+ words) Brazil is on track for another bumper year in soy and corn, yet rice—the staple that anchors the dinner table—has tipped into a profitability crunch. Nowhere is the strain clearer than in Rio Grande do Sul, which grows…...