Soy Frontier at Middle Age
Optimists nicknamed Brazil's frontier "Soylandia" at the turn of the millennium, describing a country that would triple its soybean production in the next 15 years and suddenly rival the U.S. as world's largest soy producer and exporter. The country's unparalleled growth streak made paper millionaires out of many of Mato Grosso's pioneers and transformed landlocked farming regions. DTN's Executive Editor Marcia Zarley Taylor and South America Correspondent Alastair Stewart examine the successes as well as the challenges during the boom years and check what's ahead for Brazil's soybean growth as the frontier marks middle age.