Fig. 2 shows time trends in area planted with soybean, cotton, and
first and second season corn crops (denoted “Corn 1” and “Corn 2”,
with nominal harvest in March and June–July, respectively) over the
past decade, as reported by CONAB. State-level planted acreages averaged
over the period 2003–2013 are tabulated for each crop in
Table 2. Of particular interest is the growth in soybean acreage in MT,
in the transitional region from Cerrado to rainforest – nearly doubling
between 2002 and 2013 due to recent expansion in a new front of