Who pays the cost of implementing Visec in soybeans? A calculation by Fauba indicates that -doing things right- it could be

A few days ago, Bichos de Campo published statements from the head of the Oil Industry Chamber (Ciara-CEC), Gustavo Idígora, regarding the VISEC system, which they have heavily invested in as a means to circumvent the new European Union deforestation requirements, which will finally come into effect starting January 1, 2026. After clarifying that soybean producers can register "voluntarily and free of charge" in Visec to demonstrate that—as Europe demands—their grains do not come from a field that has been deforested recently, the executive of the agro-exporters explained that they will still have a higher cost to prevent deforestation-free soybeans from being mixed at ports with other soybeans that are not part of the system and lack traceability. "This requires a physical segregation of the goods—in storage, trucks, and plants—which generates an additional cost that we will try to pass on to the European importer," Idígora detailed. The risk, if this does not happen, is that ...