Sprinkler heads dangle from a suspended pipeline that stretches for several hundred metres, producing a fine mist that falls on row after row of green shoots. The irrigation system slowly turns on wheels around one of 36 perfect circles where, depending on the season, grow soy, cotton, beans, millet, sorghum or wheat.
With its scale and mechanisation, the enormous farm in Brazil is a paragon of modern crop production. All in the heart of South America’s largest tropical savannah, which was largely empty for much of the country’s history.
