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        <title><![CDATA[Clarice Couto - Former Agriculture Reporter]]></title>
        <description><![CDATA[Clarice Couto is a reporter for Bloomberg News in São Paulo covering agricultural commodities.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Soaring Soy Demand Pushes Farmers Deeper Into Brazil’s Amazon]]></title>
            <description><![CDATA[Years of protections are at risk as the country investigates a landmark moratorium. ]]></description>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dayanne Sousa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Sep 2025 10:00:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brazil’s $2.6 Billion Meat Takeover Gets Antitrust Approval]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Clarice Couto]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:39:33 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saudi Investor Sells BRF Shares Before $2.6 Billion Meat Deal]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:05:10 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cyberattack on Evertec’s Sinqia Hits HSBC, Others in Brazil]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 31 Aug 2025 01:28:32 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Beef Suppliers Clash Over Uruguay Plants as Brazil Faces Tariffs]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 19:29:12 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tariffs-Hit Brazil Seeks Mexico Consent for More Beef Plants]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 20:45:10 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>&quot;Brazilian Hilton Cuts&quot; are packed at the Minerva SA meat processing plant in Barretos, Brazil, on Tuesday, Aug. 20, 2012. Minerva SA, Brazil&apos;s third-largest beef producer, expects the company&apos;s net debt to fall to 2.5 times Ebitda in two years as beef plants ramp up.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[China’s Soy Crushers May Be Facing a Winter Without US Beans]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Hallie Gu]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2025 02:09:33 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Soybeans ready for planting at Double G Angus Farms in Tiffin, Iowa. Photographer: Benjamin Roberts/Bloomberg</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grains Rise on Stronger-Than-Expected Demand for US Supplies]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Clarice Couto]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2025 17:54:30 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A truck loaded with corn departs Triple Run Farm in Dockery, Mississippi, US, on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2025. Chicago corn futures fell to the lowest level in nearly a year after the US Department of Agriculture raised its already record-large outlook for the American harvest.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brazil’s Regulator Delays Final Decision on Marfrig-BRF Deal]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-20/brazil-s-regulator-delays-final-decision-on-marfrig-brf-deal</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dayanne Sousa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:51:54 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A customer shops for meat for sale at the Zona Sul grocery store in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Friday, Dec. 17, 2021. As extended families the world over plan holiday celebrations again, they&apos;re encountering a harsh reality: Traditional foods, especially those sold for a limited time in even a normal year, are significantly costlier in 2021—if they’re even available at all.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brazil Probes Soy Traders as Amazon Pact Raises Cartel Worry]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-19/brazil-opens-probe-into-major-soy-traders-on-competition-concern</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dayanne Sousa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Aug 2025 02:28:37 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Marfrig Jumps as BRF Deal Brings Payout, US Listing Prospects]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/marfrig-s-home-beef-business-helps-cushion-us-cattle-squeeze</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Clarice Couto]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2025 22:54:16 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[JBS Drops as Cattle Shortage Takes Bigger Toll on Profits]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-13/jbs-sees-bigger-beef-toll-on-profits-as-cattle-shortage-deepens</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Gerson Freitas Jr.]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2025 22:15:22 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Cattle trucks offload livestock at the JBS Greeley meatpacking facility in Greeley, Colorado, US, on Friday, Feb. 28, 2025. Plans for the biggest deportations in US history threaten to upend the meatpacking industry.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[World’s Largest Meat Supplier Seeks Green Credentials for Brazil at COP30]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-11/top-meat-packer-seeks-green-credentials-for-brazil-at-cop30</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Clarice Couto]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 20:11:20 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[South America Top Beef Shipper Built US Stocks Ahead Tariffs]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-06/south-america-s-top-beef-shipper-built-us-stocks-before-tariffs</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Clarice Couto]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:13:30 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Trump’s Brazil Tariffs Upend Crop Prices From Coffee to Juice]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-31/trump-s-brazil-tariffs-upend-crop-prices-from-coffee-to-juice</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dayanne Sousa]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2025 14:52:35 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>A worker prunes coffee plants affected by drought at the Rosario farm in Pedregulho, Sao Paulo, Brazil, on Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2024. The worst drought in Brazil’s history is doing more than jeopardizing coffee, sugar and soybean crops; dead vegetation is giving way to fires, sending greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and disappearing more of the Amazon rainforest.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[US Tariffs Threaten Brazil Beef With $1 Billion Sales Loss]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-29/trump-s-tariffs-threaten-brazil-beef-with-1-billion-sales-loss</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Clarice Couto]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:24:50 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Cattle eat at feed pens on a farm in Maraba, Para state, Brazil, on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2021. Six European retail groups, including Sainsbury&apos;s in the United Kingdom and Carrefour in Belgium, are restricting Brazilian beef purchases due to new findings linking cattle production to deforestation in the Amazon, Cerrado and Pantanal.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Chinese Firm in Talks to Import Distillers Grains From Brazil]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Clarice Couto]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 13:45:53 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Dried distillers grains, a by-product of ethanol production used as feed for livestock, are loaded onto a grain truck at the Great River Energy Blue Flint Ethanol plant in Underwood, North Dakota, U.S., on Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. North Dakota will hold its Republican presidential caucus on March 6.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Higher Loan Rates in Brazil Threaten Tractor Sales Rebound]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-07-01/higher-loan-rates-in-brazil-threaten-tractor-sales-rebound</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Clarice Couto]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 20:41:45 GMT</pubDate>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brazil Says It’s Free of Bird Flu, Paving Way for Export Return]]></title>
            <link>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-18/brazil-says-it-s-free-of-bird-flu-paving-way-for-export-return</link>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Clarice Couto]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 17:24:51 GMT</pubDate>
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                <media:description>Chickens at a poultry farm near Curitiba, Brazil.</media:description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Minerva to Take Part in Antitrust Review of Marfrig-BRF Deal]]></title>
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            <dc:creator><![CDATA[Clarice Couto]]></dc:creator>
            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2025 21:47:25 GMT</pubDate>
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