The state of Parana has the most expensive farming land in all of Brazil. There is a saying in my country that “anything you plant in Brazil grows.” Well in this state that is definitely true due to the high-quality of the soil and the favourable weather.

Every year farmers here manage to harvest soya bean in the summer, corn in the fall and wheat in the winter. The soil is so rich in nutrients and there is so much rain that there is no need to rest the land. This is unheard of in other countries and even other parts of Brazil.

From the moment I left Maringa I started riding next to corn fields that went on as far as the eye could see. For hundreds of kilometres it was corn on both sides of the road. In the city of Ubirata I got my first chance to share a roof with a family of farmers!

The Rosseta family has been farming this piece of land since the patriarch of the family arrived here in the 1970’s. It was during this period that people from all over Brasil started coming to this great state to cut down forests and work the land. Those days the land here was cheap and opportunity was high.

“When my grandfather came here he bought 10 hectares of land and started farming. Today we farm 1500 hectares,” Wellington Rosseta told me as we drove around their property in his truck.

Although Wellington is only 21, he has already taken the reins on the planting operation of their farm. His father deals with the money, his two uncles run the harvesting and even his younger cousin who is only 10-years-old already knows how to work the machinery.

“This is easy, I learned how to drive these when I was 6,” Vinny Rosseta told me as he drove a gigantic John Deere combine through a field of corn.

While I was with the Rosseta family I was able to see how hard they work everyday! And how unified the family is. Everyone has a certain job within the farm and they do it with such love. Their success working the land all of these years is a true testament to their hard work.