JBS Plans to Fund 4,000 Brazilian Feedlots to Speed Up Supply

July 24, 2008 · Leave a Comment

Carlos Caminada and Flavia Lima

Bloomberg

JBS SA, the world’s biggest beef supplier, plans to finance as many as 4,000 Brazilian cattle producers to help them fatten calves faster in feedlots after supplies dwindled and prices surged.

JBS aims to have as much as 350 million reais ($222 million) in outstanding loans by 2011, Jose Geraldo Dontal, the head of a new JBS finance unit, said in a Bloomberg Television interview. The loans will fund investments in feedlots, he said.

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