A DOWNWARD trend in Brazil’s cattle cycle, due to reduced profitability for store producers in recent years, has reduced cattle supplies, and the strong domestic market has responded with sharp price increases.

While further progress on the lifting of the restrictions on exports from three states in Brazil is awaited, Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay have agreed to international control of a 15km zone of intensive Foot and Mouth Disease surveillance along their common borders

Another review of the EU restrictions on imports of beef from Brazil is being undertaken this week, the outcome of which will be critical for the beef trade in Europe into 2007.

BRAZILIAN authorities are hoping that the EU will partially lift a ban on their beef exports, after epidemiologists from Europe completed a 10-day inspection of the South American country’s beef industry last weekend.

BRAZIL midfielder Ze Roberto has not forgotten the last time his nation faced France in the World Cup.

BRAZIL'S Agriculture Minister, Rodrigo Rodrigues has publicly admitted that he expected a resurgence of foot and mouth in the country, because measures to combat the disease had "softened."

Seven teenagers were beaten to death and five others were injured in a rebellion at a juvenile detention centre in southern Brazil, police and witnesses said today.

A Brazilian who's just finished 111,000 sit-ups in 24 hours says he won't do another for months.

At least four people have died in Brazil after two days of heavy rain triggered mudslides and flash floods in the south of the country.