date:Aug 15, 2018
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BETTING BIG
Plenty of sugar mills, which often grow part of the cane they process, have realized they cannot fight the soy boom and decided to plant their own soybeans as part of a crop rotation strategy.
Cane fields typically need to be replanted after five or six years, and mills are using the renovation window to produce soybeans.
In the past, those areas subject to renovation would be left fallow until the following year, said Victor Campanelli, who has exploited the niche.
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