So far Brazil has been all about the 5 things starting with the letter C. Coffee, Corn, Cattle, Chickens and Cane (Sugar). Yesterday we spent the morning at Daterra coffee farm. A large coffee producer with a great business model that really looked after their staff and produce. Today we visited a sugar cane mill and inspected some cane plantings. Imagine sowing and harvesting 14000 acres by hand. Then off to a chicken farm. Reasonably big (killing 200 000 birds a day) making them only the 44th? in size in the country. They use 600t of corn each day and 200t of Soy meal. We are all blown away by the scale of things here. Good to see another country competing on a free market though as we do. No subsidies like US and UK. Hopefully see some Soya beans harvesting tomorrow on our way up to Brazilia.
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