Soaring Soy Demand Pushes Farmers Deeper Into Brazil’s Amazon

Deep in Brazil, grain barges glide down rivers where only jungle once stretched.

Shippers stop at terminals thousands of miles from the country’s traditional ports. Fields once razed for cattle or left untouched now grow millions of tons of the country’s biggest export, soybeans.

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The world’s voracious appetite for soy now has farmers edging deeper and deeper into the Amazon rainforest to grow the oilseed, aided by billions of dollars in infrastructure that’s making once unreachable corners viable for trading exports. That’s testing Brazil’s ability to balance its mighty agriculture industry, which accounts for more than a ...