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Wide of soy fields2. Close up of soy plants3. Wide of tractor harvesting soy plants4. Close of tractor harvesting plants5. Shot from front of tractor6. Wide of tractor harvesting7....\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eFerre' Buenos Aires Province - April 5 - 6, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e1. Wide of soy fields\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up of soy plants\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of tractor harvesting soy plants\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close of tractor harvesting plants\u003cbr/\u003e5. Shot from front of tractor\u003cbr/\u003e6. Wide of tractor harvesting\u003cbr/\u003e7. Cutaway of tractor depositing soybeans into truck\u003cbr/\u003e8. Shot of back of tractor \u003cbr/\u003e9. Cutaway of soybean transfer to truck\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of truck and tractor separating\u003cbr/\u003e11. Close up of soybeans plants\u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of front of tractor\u003cbr/\u003e13. Medium of back of tractor\u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of factory\u003cbr/\u003e15. Medium of soybeans pouring out of tractor\u003cbr/\u003e16.Wide of soybeans pouring out of tractor\u003cbr/\u003e17. Medium of factory machines\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close of soy pouring out of machine\u003cbr/\u003e19. Medium of soybeans\u003cbr/\u003e20. Close of soybeans\u003cbr/\u003e21. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Carlos Ranalli, Farmer  \u003cbr/\u003e\"Soya is a crop that arrived in Argentina in the year 1970, the decade of the 70s, trying to be another of the alternatives for Argentine farmlands. From there and onwards it struggled on a lot, to get to the point today as a soybeans that in this seed, there is a lot of technology, a lot of money invested. \" \u003cbr/\u003e22. Shot of soybean seeds\u003cbr/\u003e23. Testing the soybean quality\u003cbr/\u003e24. SOUNDBITE: (Spanish) Carlos Ranalli, Farmer  \u003cbr/\u003e\"The weeds could turn into harmful weeds if they're not taken care of, but you have to take a lot of care of them to get good results in a field of soybeans.\"\u003cbr/\u003e25. Tractor pulling truck\u003cbr/\u003e26. Close up of soybeans pouring into truck\u003cbr/\u003e27 Medium of tractors\u003cbr/\u003e28 Tractor driving away\u003cbr/\u003e29 Close up of factory building\u003cbr/\u003e30. SOUNDBITE  (Spanish): Sergio Fernandez, Soya producer \u003cbr/\u003e\"From what our engineers say, cultivating soybeans for four or five years in a row damages it. That doesn't mean that it destroys it but the lack of crop rotation on the same land damages and harms it. We have evidence that the producers of our crops who had been planting soybeans on the same land for four or five years give the worst outcome for the crop on the land.\"\u003cbr/\u003e31. Soy seeds\u003cbr/\u003e32. Wide of farmland covered with plastic\u003cbr/\u003e33. Medium of farmland covered with plastic\u003cbr/\u003eBuenos Aires - April 28 2008\u003cbr/\u003e34. Medium of Hernan Giardini, Greenpeace activist and soybeans expert, working at computer\u003cbr/\u003e35. SOUNDBITE  (Spanish) Hernan Giardini, Greenpeace activist, soy expert\u003cbr/\u003e\"'The glyphosate fumigation, which is a poison, is used to fumigate the transgenic soybean. The transgenic soybean is created to resist the herbicide, whereas all the other weeds do not, which is generating a direct impact on all the ecosystems and on the other hand on all the people who are also receiving a daily dose of fumigation. On the other hand there is the desertification of areas due to the lack of rotation. The outcome of the high prices of soy is that the farmers don't rotate crops and the soy harms the land that provokes this desertification.\"\u003cbr/\u003eFerre', Buenos Aires Province - April 6, 2008\u003cbr/\u003e36. Combine harvester in soy fields\u003cbr/\u003e37. Soy plants\u003cbr/\u003e38. Tractor's wheel\u003cbr/\u003e39. Close of  Mariano Piergalini (farmer) drving tractor\u003cbr/\u003e40. Front view from tractor of soy plants\u003cbr/\u003e41. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Maraino Piergalini, Farmer \u003cbr/\u003e\"'We survive on soybeans because what we use what we make from them, or the majority of it, we ourselves use to financially support the dairy produce from the cows. So every time they criticize the soybeans they don't realize that it's bad. They were the ones who made us produce soybeans in the first place, and in reality the soybeans, which we profit from, can maintain the dairy produce from the cows.\"\u003cbr/\u003e42.Close of soya pouring into machine\u003cbr/\u003e43. Medium of tractor transferring soybeans into truck\u003cbr/\u003eArgentina ought to be in an enviable position to face down the escalating global food crisis, as harvesters reap vast fields of soybeans for a seemingly insatiable Asian market.\u003cbr/\u003eBut Argentina's tax-hungry government has sparked its own brand of food crisis, a row with farmers, as it seeks to tap a windfall from soaring global food commodity prices.\u003cbr/\u003eAs world food prices cause civil unrest in poor, food-importing countries, nations with large exportable farm surpluses like Argentina are facing the ire of food producers and consumers.\u003cbr/\u003eOne the one hand, a quarter of Argentina's 40 million population are still mired in poverty, and food inflation has emerged as a major concern despite a sustained recovery from a 2002 economic meltdown.\u003cbr/\u003eOn the other, there's a growing sense of anguish among farmers who want to keep more of the profit from an agribusiness that reaped Argentina some US$13.5 billion (�8.5 billion) last year.\u003cbr/\u003eSoy growers in Ferre, a town of 3,000 people on farmlands of Buenos Aires province, are insisting the government roll back taxes that they say will hamper economic growth in the countryside.\u003cbr/\u003eFarmers like Carlos Ranalli who watches freshly harvest soybeans pour into a truck leaving his 400-hectare (nearly 1,000-acre) spread.\u003cbr/\u003eHe says that a lot of money has been invested in soybeans production here. \u003cbr/\u003eRanalli says that the crop needs a lot of attention so it does not get infested with weeds. \u003cbr/\u003eHowever President Cristina Fernandez has called soybeans a \"weed\" and said farmers must share gains from a crop that is almost entirely exported.\u003cbr/\u003eOfficials say the soy boom has gotten out-of-hand and that taxes will encourage farmers to grow other crops.\u003cbr/\u003eOver half of Argentina's farmland is planted in soybeans each year, more than double a decade ago.\u003cbr/\u003eThis means that normal agricultural practices like crop rotation are ignored. \u003cbr/\u003eSoy producer Sergio Fernandez says that the soy harvest is now showing the signs of damage as the same fields are planted with the crop year after year. \u003cbr/\u003eHernan Giardini, a Greenpeace activist and soy expert says that chemicals used to protect the soy beans from weeds means that farmers are working with harmful substances and the ecosystem's natural balance is being upset. \u003cbr/\u003eHe also says that lack of crop rotation increases desertification of certain areas as the land is depleted of its natural components like nitrates. \u003cbr/\u003eFarmers are especially unhappy about President Cristina Fernandez upping export taxes in soybeans from an existing 35 percent to almost 46 percent, possibly more if commodity prices rise further.\u003cbr/\u003eFarmer Maraino Piergalini says the soy harvest helps to subsidise his dairy farm. \u003cbr/\u003eBut the 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