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by framecowbird 1663 days ago
Soy is exported at about 380 USD per ton, and yield is something like 3 tons per hectare.

I'm not sure how much the farmer doing the deforestation gets though. But deforesting the Amazon is sadly very cheap. Much cheaper than it should be given the value of the Amazon. It's a disastrous market failure.