Brazil meatpackers explore wheat as feed alternative as corn prices rise
Large Brazilian meatpackers are turning to wheat as they try to fend off a rise in the cost of corn, the main livestock feed ingredient, meat lobby ABPA said on Friday
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– ReutersFrancisco Turra, president of ABPA’s advisory body, told Reuters that demand from meat processors, who provide feed to the farmers who raise the livestock, is driving a rise in wheat planting intentions in his native Rio Grande do Sul state.
Wheat can fully replace corn as feed for pork and poultry, he said.
Citing data from the state agriculture federation Farsul, Turra said the area to be planted with wheat and other winter crops in 2021, starting next month, may grow from 1 million hectares (2.4 million acres) to 1.4 million hectares.
“High prices and delays in Brazil’s second corn crop have pressured meatpackers’ margins”
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