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Trade bans from key buyers follow outbreak on commercial farm

27 May 2025

2 minute read

 By: Global Ag Media

 South America

Chicken meat exports from Brazil have fallen slightly year-on-year in May, trade data from the government showed on Monday, after the country logged a case of bird flu on a commercial farm, reported Reuters. 

Brazil, the world’s largest chicken exporter, said on May 16 it had identified a bird flu outbreak on a commercial farm in the southern city of Montenegro, triggering nationwide or regional trade bans from dozens of countries.

The list includes China, the largest buyer of Brazil’s chicken in 2024, as well as top clients South Africa, the Philippines, the European Union and Mexico.

Exports of “fresh, chilled and frozen poultry meat and edible offal”, a category mostly made of chicken meat, had been up 0.2% year-over-year in the first three weeks of the month, before most of the trade bans started to kick in.

But for the first four weeks of the month, that trend reversed, falling 1.5% to an average of about 19,900 metric tons per day, data showed.

Brazilian authorities hope that a 28-day observation period, which started last Thursday, will show its chicken farms are free of the disease.

Itau BBA analysts wrote in a note to clients that negotiations between Brazil and the countries which banned the purchase of Brazilian chicken will dictate the extent of the negative impacts on the trade.

“The situation tends to worsen if new cases emerge, but even if it is restricted to just this one, we believe that exports will decline at least in the next month,” the analysts wrote.

KJZZ | By Kathy Ritchie

Published May 26, 2025 at 12:10 PM MST

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Poultry on a commercial farm in Maricopa County have tested positive for avian influenza.

Samples were collected on May 15 after poultry began showing signs of bird flu. Four days later, the National Veterinary Services Laboratory confirmed the presence of the virus.

State officials say no eggs produced after the onset of the illness have entered the food supply, and no human infections have been reported. The affected farm has been placed under quarantine, and efforts are underway to contain and eliminate the virus.

The name of the farm has not yet been released.

This isn’t the first time bird flu has been detected in Maricopa County this year. In February, the virus was found in milk from a dairy herd.