Agriculture in Brazil | Are American Farmers a Step Behind?
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- Опубліковано 12 тра 2024
- Iowa soybean farmers recently traveled to Brazil to see first hand where their farming capabilities were at. They were surprised by what they saw.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:33 Key takeaway from Iowa soybean farmer's time in Brazil
01:22 What the U.S. soybean industry needs to focus on in relation to Brazil
02:58 How will the U.S. remain competitive with the rise of Brazil?
03:58 Does the U.S. have an infrastructure advantage?
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Thanks for comming down to Brazil. Even though, farmers go through a lot of challenges such as logistics, taxes and lack of government incentives. Farming industry in Brazil is one the most important agent in environmental preservation due the environmental regulations and No till as the main farming practice in row crops. Notill has an important role to the development of the brazilian agriculture.
What's this nonsense that monocrop agriculture is environmentally friendly in any way? LOL
The competitors are trying to slow down the Brazilian agroindustry using the Amazon deforestation as a pretext. Brazil has one of the lowest forest and natural environment preservation index in the world. In terms of arable land, Brazil has only 8% of its land dedicated to agriculture. US has 18%. China 20%. France 58%. India 61%. Brazil’s ability to harvest two to three crops a year in the same plot of land makes it unique compared with other grain and soybean-producing countries. Brazil has about 12 per cent of the world's surface water resources and one of the most fertile lands in the world. Brazil is now a global agricultural powerhouse feeding one in every 4 people in the world.
Brazil has a climate conducive to continuous cropping.
Nice ... lets clear the Amazon forest to grow soybeans so we don't have to eat meat
90% of the amazon still there, farms in Brazil only cover 10% of the country land mass, depending on the state you need to put aside 80% of your land for conservation some are (10%), Brazil invested heavily in farming technology and that is where the difference is biting into the American advantage. You hear people talking about the Amazon are interest groups that keep pushing into to undermine the Brazilian market. They been undermining the Brazilian market since forever, one case in example was in 1996 when foreign markets spread lies about Brazilian cows having mad cow disease something they never had, but that cost Brazil a huge contract with the Canadian market. Brazil does have a major problem with miners and loggers coming down from other countries to harvest Brazilian goods. Try again!!
The land shown in the video is mostly land that stay under water for most of the year another reason why cattle is rotated through there, to take advantage of the growth after the yearly floods. Try to understand that biomes from different countries are going to behave differently from what YOU are used to.
Most soybean crops in Brazil are not near or in the Amazonia lol
@@RandomNPC001Great information thank you
The competitors are trying to slow down the Brazilian agroindustry using the Amazon deforestation as a pretext. Brazil has the lowest forest and natural environment preservation index in the world. Please spend a little time doing research about this topic.
They have poor soil, highly dependent on commercial fertilizers but reduced Regulation gives them a huge advantage.
Well it depends on the region. Southern Brazilian states like for instance Rio Grande do sul, Santa Catarina and Paraná have pretty good soils, the regions that are borderline temperate/sub tropical have better soils than tropical central Brazil.
Majority of the crops are in central brazil and west central in places like Mato Grosso which produces 26% of Brazil's soybeans, that state alone. And a lot of places plant three crops per year. Near Brasilia around that region they plant Soybeans, which is actually not their cash crop and yields aren't that great and then right after they harvest soybeans they plant Cotton which is their cash crop and then they plant corn.
In the southernmost state the climate is cool enough to grow Wheat and Barley, almost all the Barley and most of the wheat crops are in Rio Grande do sul.
By the way, Brazil uses 20% of the world's pesticides that's an insane overrepresentation when you factor in all major agricultural producers like China, the states, canada, India etc..There's no way that Brazil represents 20% of the world's crops
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Destroying the "lungs of the earth" and northern farmers get the blame
Most crop farming in Brazil is not done in the Amazon region. Most of Brazil isn't the Amazon lol
In fact soils are poor and not very suitable for crops in rainforest climates.
Most crops in Brazil are in central, and west central brazil which is a tropical Savanna climate and south brazil is a major producer states like São Paulo, Paraná, Rio Grande do sul. All these major agricultural regions aren't anywhere close to the Amazon
Digging for info here and it looks like 4.5 million acres a year are lost. So basically, cropping is pushing cattle grazing into the rainforest areas. Is this not correct?
@@agwhoneedsaphd2643 The biggest problem lies on illegal activities. In the Brazillian Amazon the law forces producers to keep up to 80% of their land with forests. Aside from that, around 20+% of the Amazon is either permanently protected with national parks and alike or indigenous territories, which are also not allowed to deforest.
Keep in mind the current native forest cover of Brazil is not comparable with any northern farmer's country.
The competitors are trying to slow down the Brazilian agroindustry using the Amazon deforestation as a pretext. Brazil has the lowest forest and natural environment preservation index in the world.
Monocropping is the answer for environmental issues? 😂
Monocropping is literally one of the worst things you can possibly do to the environment lol
By the way Brazil uses 20% of the world's pesticides that's insane when you factor in China, India, America, Canada etc... Brazil output doesn't represent 20% of the world's lol
Monocropping with good practices are PART of the answer. Forests are better than monocrops for sure, but you can't produce competitive amounts of protein with it.
About pesticides, Brazil is a tropical country, agriculture is different. The winter is too mild to control pests and low-till practices require using more herbicides. Tillage is really bad for tropical soils because it destroys organic matter and leave then more vulnerable to erosion.
@@pliniolsc There's no such thing as environmentally friendly monocropping. The nature of it is intrinsically bad. You have to destroy almost all biodiversity for millions of acres to grow just a few types of plants.
Nope the usa farmers are just fine
ok, nothing to worry then! 🤣🤣🤣
2 new railroads in Brazil are being built just to move crops from the farms to the ports. Once that happens game over!!
@@RandomNPC001It's already game over when it comes to america's two biggest crops. Brazil has recently overtaken the US in both Soybean and Corn exports. Brazil overtook the US in Corn in 2023
@@RandomNPC001Brazil is basically growing all this Soy for China by the way. China imports 86% of Brazilian Soybean
@@lrn_news9171 Does it matter who is buying it or the fact that it's being sold?!
It sounds like brazil is way behind
Number 1 producer and exporter of Soybeans in the world. And Brazil recently became the world number 1 exporter of Corn overtaking the US. By far the biggest producer of sugarcane.
By far the biggest producer of coffee and a major producer of cotton and wheat.
How are they behind if they beat the US in both Soybean and Corn exports? 😂
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Would call your attention if they were really behind. Wouldn't they? 😉
@@gosolo1000 you got that right