Finally, in Southern Brazil, production of sugarcane, often for ethanol, is expanding rapidly, under a more mixed regime. About half of production is from medium farmers with an average of about 50 ha. Much of the rest produced in vertically integrated operations with mills on land they manage and operate. While average operated size per mill is some 13,000 ha, some very large operators farm over 300,000 hectares. Argentina presents a somewhat different picture. There, farm management companies, pools de siembra, have emerged that own neither land nor machinery but rent in land and contract machine operators (Regunaga 2010)
