Brazil
Brazil looks for larger ag sales to Russia
The Russian ban on food and ag products from Western nations including the United States is likely to mean more business for Brazil, says Reuters.
Record world soy crop will boost stocks sharply-IGC
In its first formal forecast of the 2014/15 soybean crop, the International Grains Council forecast a record harvest, up 6 percent from the previous season, and a 24 percent jump in carryover stocks.
Coffee output rises in countries battling rust fungus
Coffee production is on the rise in Colombia and Central America, where growers battle the rust fungus, said USDA in its Coffee: World Markets and Trade report.
US-Brazil cotton settlement reported, USDA says not so
"Brazil is likely to receive $400 million from the United States as part of an agreement to compensate the South American country" in the decade-old cotton subsidy dispute, says Agro-South.
Brazil mulls ban on second-season soy in Mato Grosso
Brazil's Agriculture Ministry is considering a ban on second-season soybean in Mato Grosso, the major soybean state, as a control against the rust fungus and a newly arrived plant pest known as the earworm, says AgroSouth News.
US tries to avert Brazil retaliation over cotton subsidies
The United States is "negotiating" with Brazil and trying to avert the potential imposition of $830 mln in retaliatory tariffs in the decade-old cotton dispute, AgSec Vilsack told the Senate Agriculture Committee. Brazil won a World Trade Organization case against U.S. subsidies several years ago and repeatedly held off retaliation while working with the United States to settle the issue.