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Cerrado soil profile to 7 meters.
Limestone bedrock is 300 - 400 meters (1,000 feet) below
where I am standing, West Bahia. |
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Harvesting edible beans in Western
Bahia, Brazil. |
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Dryland cotton in Western Bahia
(yield was 310 arrobas/ha or 1,557 pounds of lint cotton/acre). |
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Planting cotton in Western Bahia. |
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Irrigated new coffee planting,
Western Bahia. |
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Phil Warnken, AgBrazil President
in a W. Bahian coffee plantation. |
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Soybeans in Western Bahia. |
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Soybeans in W. Bahia. |
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Phil Warnken in cerrado,Western
Bahia. |
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Phil Warnken at edge of native
cerrado and cleared land, Western Bahia. |
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Virgin cerrado on Soybean Ring
Road. |
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Shallow-rooted shrub pulled from
virgin cerrado on Soybean Ring Road. |
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Native cerrado in foreground
and left; Cleared and pivot-irrigated land to right, Western
Bahia. |
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Cat hooked to heavy ship-anchor
chain used to knock down cerrado vegetation, Western Bahia. |
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Cerrado vegetation knocked down
by chaining, Western Bahia. |
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Newly opened land on the left,
virgin cerrado to the right, Western Bahia. |
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Cerrado land opened in rainy
season, Western Bahia. |
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Cerrado land opened in rainy
season. |
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AgBrazil President, Phil Warnken
in 100 ha field of pivot irrigated squash, Western Bahia. |
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Pivot irrigation reservoir on
irrigated coffee farm, Western Bahia. |
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Bahia Foundation Soybean Field
Day in Western Bahia. |
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Spraying cotton near Soybean
Ring Road, Western Bahia. |
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Pivot irrigated papaya, Western
Bahia. |
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Pivot irrigated guava, Western
Bahia. |
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D. Carroll in irrigated orange
grove, Western Bahia. |
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Phil Warnken in table grape trellises,
Western Bahia. |
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Hand trimming table grapes, Western
Bahia. |
Soybean field, Western Bahia, March 2002. |
Harvesting soybeans, Western Bahia, March 2002 |
Part of one farm's combine inventory on the Soybean Ring
Road, 12/2001. |
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Deere dealer's expanded facility inagurated December 2001 in
Luis Eduardo Magalhães, Western Bahia. |
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New poultry feed mixing facility
in Luis Eduardo Magalhães industrial park. |
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Farm worker housing and cantina,
Western Bahia farm. |
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Worker's football (soccer) field
on farm near Soybean Ring Road, Western Bahia. |
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Waterfall "Acaba da Vida" off
Soybean Ring Road, Western Bahia. |
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River near Luis Eduardo Magalhães,
Western Bahia. |
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Coffee ready for harvest, Western
Bahia. |
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Stirring coffee beans on drying
floor, Western Bahia. |
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Bagging coffee beans, Western
Bahia. |
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Ceval (Bunge) soybean buying
station, Soybean Ring Road, Western Bahia. |
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Farm owner's home off Soybean
Ring Road, Western Bahia. |
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View of swimming pools at private
club in Luis Eduardo Magalhães, Western Bahia. |
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Over-the-road grain truck, Western
Bahia. |
The far western edge of the Bahian cerrado and border with the
state of Tocatins (cerrado is the high flat plain). |
