Brazilian farmers produce ethanol from sugar at a cost roughly 30 percent less.

Brazilian farmers are so successful that they trample national borders in search of cheap land.

Several analysts said they expected Brazilian farmers to plant more soybeans in the fall to make up the difference.

Lured by rich soil, cheaper production costs and lower taxes, Brazilian farmers began buying Bolivian land in the 1990's.

Spilling over national borders, 200,000 Brazilian farmers now grow most of Paraguay's soy crop.

An additional 10,000 Brazilian farmers have moved into eastern Bolivia.

Many Brazilian farmers were used to command slaves and treated the immigrants as indentured servants.

Brazilian farmers say they would welcome Chinese money.

Some Brazilian farmers are refusing to market their crops, and that news bolstered prices, traders said.

However, offering reparations to 44 Brazilian farmers does not even begin to compensate for the human rights violations perpetrated by the military dictatorship.