Brazil accounts for about a third of world soyabean exports, second only to America.
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Since 1990 its soyabean output has risen from barely 15m tonnes to over 60m.
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People allergic to Brazil nuts were found to be allergic to the modified soyabean as well.
In 2008 farmers staged pot-clanking demonstrations after she tried to raise taxes on soyabean exports.
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In Zimbabwe, South Africa, Paraguay and Brazil, Asian soyabean rust has destroyed up to 80% of the plants.
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The peso, which has won back trust after its crash in 2001, is backed by high soyabean prices.
True enough, the land in this vast savannah has become more economically valuable due largely to soyabean plantations.
If the rust becomes uncontrollable, then a state's entire soyabean crop could be destroyed in just a few days.
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These loans are secured on Mr Ebbers's personal assets, including a yacht-sales company, a soyabean farm, and nearly 27m WorldCom shares.
Treating the disease could eat up a soyabean farmer's entire yearly profit.
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In 2003, the United States supplied 40% of the world's soyabean trade.
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In the mid-2000s, Kirchner filled the treasury with taxes on soyabean exports.
All other big soyabean producers (notably America and Argentina) have temperate climates.
Gerald Tumbleson, a Minnesota corn and soyabean farmer, spoke to your correspondent from the cellular telephone in his combine as he harvested corn.
There it could generate a massive load of spores and travel to prime soyabean acreage in the mid-west, destroying most of the American crop.
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Bolivia is an associate Mercosur member and has already signed up Argentine barges, which carry soyabean and sugar down the Paraguay and Parana rivers.
One of the first products, DuPont's high-oleic soyabean, which yields an oil lower in artery-clogging saturated fats, is now awaiting regulatory approval in Europe.
Greenpeace, the rich world's noisiest environmental campaigning group, cites an experiment in which a gene from a Brazil nut was transferred into a soyabean.
Its future should not be jeopardised for the sake of a few billion dollars of soyabean subsidies or a few million tonnes of beef imports.
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Drought now covers all or virtually all of the corn and soyabean production areas in Illinois, Nebraska, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, Arkansas, Kentucky and Tennessee.
Nevertheless you repeated the centuries-old error of seeing savannahs, grasslands and prairies as worthless and empty, fit only for conversion to pastures and soyabean fields.
Intriguingly, Dr Balch's experimental area is part of an 80, 000-hectare holding owned by the family of Blairo Maggi, a soyabean magnate who is the governor of Mato Grosso.
But this year drought parched soyabean fields, and Brazil stalled.
Its galloping GDP growth, 8.8% in both 2003 and 2004, owes a lot to high soyabean prices and the use of capacity left idle by the economic collapse in 2001-02.
So far, no soyabean variety can withstand the rust.
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Since 2007, when Vale started to operate the line, soyabean production in the surrounding region has risen by 8.5% a year, and the price of land has more than doubled in places.
According to Kim Nill, of the American Soyabean Association, there are ten points on the trip from farm to ship at which different types of soyabeans are deliberately mixed to improve their quality.
But Mr Rich became fascinated with the process by which, through a series of vats and pipes and settling beds, the humble and ubiquitous soyabean could be made to do the work of a cow.
But this year the primary corn (maize) and soyabean agricultural belt has been hard hit by the drought of the past three months: crops, pastures and rangeland have deteriorated at a rate rarely seen in the past 20 years.
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