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    Brazil Soybean Output to Beat Forecasts on Higher Yields, Agroconsult Says  Feb 24, 2008
    Brazilian growers were aided by above-average rainfall in recent months and have managed to stem the spread of a fungal disease known as Asian rust, Pessoa said in the interview in Rio Verde, in the Brazilian state of Goias. Soybean farmer Roildes Ribeiro Benevides, 38, estimates his 5,000 hectares in Rio Verde will yield 55 bags per hectare this year, compared with 48 bags in the previous harvest, after he eradicated Asian rust from his fields. (Bloomberg -- Latin America)

    Part 2: Cattle ranchers embracing change  Dec 22, 2006
    Carlos Kind operates the country's 11th-biggest feedlot, Boitel (an acronym for "Bovine Hotel") near Rio Verde in Goias state ... He was in Rio Verde to find at least one more feedlot for his livestock. (Star-Telegram, TX -- Business)

    Part 1: Competition takes root  Dec 22, 2006
    LUCAS DO RIO VERDE, Brazil -- When Paulo Sergio Franz guns a mud-splattered pickup past a spread of white Brahman cattle and wide expanses of newly planted soybeans, it becomes evident this is no ordinary family farm ... The poultry farms are expected to expand to supply a sprawling 500,000-birds-a-day plant being built by the Brazilian meat giant Sadia in Lucas do Rio Verde, 56 miles to the east ... 5 million biodiesel plant being built in nearby Lucas do Rio Verde by Grupo Fiagril that will... (Star-Telegram, TX -- Business)




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