Posting by Poultry World editor Richard Allison
Next week sees me head south to Brazil. No it's not my annual summer break, (although I wish it was), it's work.
I'm travelling with a group of EU journalists at the invitation of the Brazilian Poultry Exporters Association to take a look its poultry sector and meet the Brazilian Minister of Agriculture. I'm looking forward to finding for myself how their industry stacks up in terms of animal welfare and quality standards.
Brazil is one of the largest exporters of poultrymeat to the EU and last year, it won the case against the EU on salted chicken. But it continually receives criticism, some unfounded, on its poor welfare standards in the Brazilian industry.
I also hope to get an update of Brazil's rapidly expanding biofuels sector. It's continued growth will affect UK growers, either through world cereal prices or EU bioethanol imports. So I hope to bring back some answers.
If you have your own burning questions you'd like me to put to Brazilian officials and producers, just let me know by replying to this blog or by email.