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The orange harvest for the 2025/26 season is quite advanced, and the new production estimate released by Fundecitrus this week showed little change compared to the previous report from December/25. According to the Fund, the citrus belt of São Paulo and Triângulo/Southwest Minas Gerais should harvest 292.6 million boxes of 40.8 kg, with a slight negative adjustment of 0.7% from the previous estimate, but 26.7% higher than the 2024/25 season.

The North American chicken processor Pilgrim's Pride, controlled by the Brazilian JBS, had a net profit of US$ 88 million, or US$ 0.37 per share, in the fourth quarter of 2025, the company reported on Wednesday, 11, after the financial market closed. The result represents a drop of 62.7% compared to the same period of the previous year, when Pilgrim's had a profit of US$ 235.9 million, or US$ 0.99 per share. In adjusted terms, profit decreased by 49.6%, to US$ 0.68 per share. Net revenue increased by 3.33%, to US$ 4.52 billion. Analysts consulted by FactSet expected adjusted profit of US$ 0.75 per share and revenue of US$ 4.38 billion. Adjusted Ebitda (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation, and amortization) fell by 21%, from US$ 525.7 million to US$ 415.1 million. The adjusted Ebitda margin fell by 2.8 percentage points, from 12% to 9.2%. In the United States, net sales decreased by 0.56%, to US$ 2.598 billion. In a statement, Pilgrim's said that the portfolio of fresh ...

HLB - or Huanglongbing - is the most serious disease for citrus fruits worldwide. Its main complexity lies in the fact that it has no cure, and it can take up to four years to show visible symptoms. For this reason, prevention is currently the best tool for its control. And in the search for new strategies to achieve this, a proposal from Jujuy became one of the most striking. It involves the use of trained dogs to track and detect the entry of citrus propagation material — plants, plant remains, buds, or sticks — that pose a phytosanitary risk to the NOA region, which, unlike the NEA, is free of this disease. The work began in 2019, with the Canine Detection in Crops (DCC) team and INTA Yuto, in coordination with the Phytosanitary Association of Northwestern Argentina (AFINOA) and endorsed by the Salta-Jujuy COPROSAVE (comprising Senasa, Inase, Inta, UNSa, UNJu, and the production ministries of both provinces). Known as cynology, this tool allows for a rapid, precise, and ...