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Reading this surprised me … How much is soy worth per acre? I assume the demand/payoff must be sizable to justify the cost of converting forest to agricultural
by gffrd 5y ago
Reading this surprised me …
How much is soy worth per acre?
I assume the demand/payoff must be sizable to justify the cost of converting forest to agricultural land?
- framecowbird 5y agoSoy is exported at about 380 USD per ton, and yield is something like 3 tons per hectare. I'm not sure how much the farmer doing the deforestation gets though. But deforesting the Amazon is sadly very cheap. Much cheaper than it should be given the value of the Amazon. It's a disastrous market failure.