A barge loaded with soybeans at the Cargill port in Santarem, Para state, Brazil.
Photographer: Dado Galdieri/BloombergSoaring Soy Demand Pushes Farmers Deeper Into Brazil’s Amazon
Years of protections are at risk as the country investigates a landmark moratorium.
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.