Julio Bravo
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first heard Dec 2024
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From our stable. I think now is the time that you're returning your investment for all the investment technology you did back in the 60s, 70s, the 80s, the 90s, and then you start to export that, right? And it was the interaction between colleges and private sector here, it's really cool. We don't have anything close to that.
And again, I don't want to compare Brazil to United States because there is no comparison. We were colonized by Portugal, Portuguese. So Pedro Alvarez Cabral founded Brazil in 1500. Christopher Columbus arrived here in 1500. 1492, eight years difference. And why are we so different? Colonization. So we can go back and do a whole podcast about that. Ken, I would love to do that.
Like you're saying, the size of territory of Brazil, and we're the only one that speaks Portuguese. All the rest speak Spanish. Right? And we have different accents. Like if you go to Rio Grande do Sul, it's like going to Texas. People talk really strong. Yeah. And then you go to Mato Grosso, people talk like a Missouri type of accent. Sure. Right? Does anyone get up into like a Canadian accent?
Yeah, but to your point, let's talk about Canada. If you zoom out this map and you're going to see Canada, United States, Central America, and South America, those four places in Americas, let's put Americas united by farming. All of those guys together, they probably produce 50% of the world's food. Mm-hmm.
Right, but what about those South Africans guys here? So that's what I thought. That's kind of my thing here. We are very Americanized in a way, so we use a lot of technology in the States. So from the States in Brazil, and we were able to develop this beautiful country with all this U.S. technology and partnerships.
And of course we have Embrapa, which is a state level, like USDA of Brazil, that they did an insane work back in the 60s when Alison Paulinelli founded Embrapa, and he sent out students from colleges to visit the world and bring back technology to Brazil. So that's kind of how it started back in the 60s and the 70s of Brazil. But in the 70s, Brazil has 70 million people.
Now we're 250 million people. But if you see those lines, we learn from U.S. a lot of really cool things that we use in Brazil. But now Brazil can transfer all the knowledge to Africa. That's what I think is going to happen. You know, this move where we use U.S. technology, we learn.
Now it's time for us to grow as a country and transfer technology to Africa and help to develop farming practice in Africa.
Yeah. And then we don't know. But there's another story for later. And then Tanner might like that. They need to figure out a lot of stuff in Africa still. You know, like those all those countries, it's really hard to say that they are. easy to do business with. There's a lot of social problems and things that they need to figure out that Brazil already figured it out.
But there is something out there that we can definitely, in the next 100 years of farming, we might be able to sell service for Africa farmers and help them to figure out farming. So I want to go back to your family.
Oh, yeah. So, that was funny. After Giselle. Yeah. After dumping Giselle. Yeah. So, I have a colleague at my... She works with me and my company, Yara. And she said, oh, I have this friend. You have to meet her because you guys look alike. So...
And then, yeah. And then I met her in 2009. We started dating. And four years later, we got married. Do you look alike? We look alike on the manners of creation and, you know, like both religious-oriented, you know, little things. You're not attracted to yourself.
That would not be nice. Yeah. But no, so I met Polly. Polly is a dentist. She and her brothers have two dental practices in Curitiba. So she's a dentist and they have different specializations. And then we started to hang out and we got married in 2014. We had a kid right after. Juliana is her name. She's nine. She just turned nine last Sunday. And she's here at Ankeny School System.
So it's kind of cool to see a kid that never had a touch with the language. Now she's fluent. Like after four months, she's already fluent in English. It's good to be a kid, right? Yeah, that's true. Yeah. And then the little one, the two-year-old, she's going to be two in December 2nd. She's like...
Back in the days, there was a big move from the south to the north. So everyone start to, you know, Rio Grande do Sul is where 100 years old, the last state is where, no, down one, Rio Grande do Sul. Yeah. So that's where 100 years old start to plant soybeans. And then a lot of land there, 100 years old. This year we celebrate 100 years old for soybean producing in Brazil.
It was a priest from Missouri that brought soybeans and soybeans. on beer bottles to Brazil.
So, yeah. So you see, it's all Americans. It wasn't Harry Stein. It wasn't Harry Stein.
Yeah. And then, so they brought that to Brazil a hundred years ago. And the soybean really was like a big social program of Brazil because as land start to be more expensive in the South, people start to go up. So Mato Grosso Sul, Mato Grosso, Goiás, Tocantins, all those states up there, up to Pará state. So everyone kind of went up and started to buy land up there, and that was like savannas.
It's different biomas in Brazil, lots of different biomas in Brazil, and lots of different regulations as well. If you're in the state of Mato Grosso or Pará, if you have a 10,000-acre farm, you can only farm in... 2,000 acres because it's an Amazon bioma and you have to save up 80% of your land. It's like you buying an apartment with 10 floors and you can only use two.
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