The Global Livestock Report

Brazil’s cattle cycle will begin to move past the herd liquidation phase, which peaked in 2025, leading to lower beef production and exports this year.

Paraguay’s National Competition Commission (Conacom) has opened an ex officio preliminary investigation into the high level of concentration in the meatpacking industry and its potential effects on price formation, according to ValorAgro.

The government of Rio Grande do Sul launched a new stage of the Refaz Reconstruction program aimed exclusively at the meatpacking sector, with the goal of regularizing ICMS tax debts, the DBO portal reported.

Brazilian beef exporting meatpackers requested a range of support measures from the government to help mitigate the negative impact of the limited import quota established by China for this year.

On Wednesday, persistent rumors circulated in China that beef stored at destination ports awaiting entry into the country, and that had not cleared before January 1, would be counted as part of the 2026 quota.

Brazil would be preparing an internal management plan for the quota granted by China to beef exports from this origin, with the aim of preventing sales from bunching up in the first months of the year and running out of available quota for the second half, the Australian portal Beef Central reported.