There has been a lot of feedback on what we have seen during our week in Brazil. We have visited with Brazilian colleagues at Luiz de Queiroz College in Piracicaba. This visit turned out to be an unexpected pleasure as we discovered that several of the staff that we had talked to had Minnesota connections. Several of our Brazilian colleagues mentioned the name "Ed Shue" Ed was a University of Minnesota economiist who had worked with these individuals when they had the opportunity to come to Minnesota and spend some time teaching and learning. Professor Ana Lucia Kassouf talked to us about the Brazilian government's efforts to study and assist the large portion of the population living in poverty. Education will play a major role here as here as many adults have only a few years of limited education. The other presenters discussed various topics from entomology to economics to ethanol. On Saturday, we visited a farmer who was also invovlved with a business that purchased and re-sold grain. A highlight of the afternoon was going to one of his farm fields and observing soybean planting. He had the most up to date equipment and answered many questions that we all had. In contrast, we did a farm visit on Sunday where the farmer had a very efficient and probably a profitable farm that was outfitted with older equipment and older technology.