Julio Bravo
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first heard Dec 2024
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But that's Brazilian regulation. That's very government. Setting aside land. Land to safe, safe land to protect their environment. So it's like CRP. And that's the only thing that can get you in jail. If you cut a tree in Brazil, you're going to go to jail. Really? Oh, yeah. That the people don't play around. Real big tree huggers. Yeah.
That's kind of, you know, always have to be defending ourselves about that, right? That's kind of where it's tricky. And I hope politicals don't see that podcast, but we always defending ourselves about killing the Amazon. We actually, farmers are the only one attached with environment.
I mean, like they have to save up 80%, sometimes 50, 70% of their lands because they need to take care of the land somehow. And they're taking care of producing, right? So, yeah, we're not destroying Amazon. It's probably something else. But Amazon is so rich and a lot of stuff that people look to Amazon to create new vaccines or medicines or whatever.
How many hectares or acres? It's really depending on the state where you are. But Mato Grosso, I can give you numbers of Mato Grosso. And those are numbers that I saw on the Soybean Association call-up for Mato Grosso. They have another 10 million hectares. They can put up the converting pasture land.
If you put Mato Grosso and Iowa as a site, you have about the same population, about the same size of area. The only difference is Mato Grosso has double cropping. And there is another 10 million hectares that can be converted from pasture land to... So that would be like 25 million acres. Yeah, 24 million acres. I think it's 2.4, yeah. So that can be converted from pasture land to farm ground.
And then we do have lots of eucalyptus, which get our CI scores pretty high because we don't have natural gas, for example. So we use biomass to burn everything. So it's a really sustainable farming practice. And in Brazil, it's cool because it's a nonstop farming practice. Right? Because we can farm all year long because it's really, we have sun probably 300 days a year, right?
You can farm everywhere. You don't have winter. We don't have the winter. We do have winter in the south. It gets chilly like today, like 30, 35, 40 in the south of Brazil, but then we do winter crops in the wintertime. So we do wheat, canola, barley, and all those stuff in the south. And once you go up to Mato Grosso, that's kind of hot all year long, so...
Yeah. Right. Yeah. And then, and then of course, uh, every state has their own story, but, uh, farming is still like, like when you compare us farming and Brazilian farms, uh, United States is really like replacing, uh, uh, type of like, uh, kind of like replacing amount of land, uh, where in Brazil you're like open up new lands every day. So it's kind of like growing still.
It's like you guys back in the seventies, let's say, you know,
Yeah, those guys that went up there, I can put my father-in-law on that list, back in the 70s and the 80s, I mean, those guys were, like, no infrastructure, nothing. Like, they have to build their own hospitals. Now you go and see those farms, they all have, like, schools inside of their farms. They have hospitals inside of their farms. They've become really big, right? But they were the...
I mean, pioneering is hard, but down the road, it will pay off. If they didn't have it, they would build it.
in those areas. Yeah. I think like I was saying before, in 100 years, I think soybeans in Brazil are the biggest social program of Brazil. Cities were created around soybeans. If you go to the cities in the state of Mato Grosso, you're going to see like 26, 30 years old cities that didn't exist. Like that city right there, Nova Mutum, which is right up by Lucas do Rio Verde.
Lucas do Rio Verde is where Summit Ag has their corn ethanol plants. So, that place, Sinop, all those cities, there is a city called Feliz Natal, which means... Not to be confused with Feliz Natal. Yeah, Feliz Natal means Merry Christmas. Oh, it does? It does, yeah. Oh, that's funny. So, the story goes because a guy broke up his truck there and then, you know, it was during Christmas.
So, he was the founder of the city, so... It's kind of cool to see all those cities and how much they grow in the past 30, 40 years. I mean, like if you go there and I hope someday I can take you guys down there because I'm really proud Brazilian of showing people what we have the best. But those states were developed because of soybean industry.
Are you going technical on me? Yeah. Well, you knew the trillion's pretty good. No, technical words.
Yeah, again, it's like in the Amazon biome is one thing, and then we have the savanna biome, and then we have the pampas biome. So every biome has a different rain accuracy. It's hard to tell. Average Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso and Goiás and Tocantins and Piauí and Maranhão, that is called Mato Piba. So Matopiba, it's the state of Maranhão, right up there.
Mato as in Tocantins, the southern state, Tocantins, right there. And then Matopi, Piauí, right up there, Piauí, and Bahia. And then the next one is Bahia. So Matopiba, those states are new states for ag. They're like been farming for 20, 25 years, but they're growing so rapidly. It's just insane amount of growth. And then state of Bahia is where most of the Americans went.
Like there is a group there, it's called Iowa Group. Really? Yeah. You Google about it. Are they from Iowa? They're from Iowa, yeah.
We're all older than that, so Corey's funny. Yeah.
So when I arrived here, I arrived because, you know, I think there is a new wave. I think our generation is going to be the generation of new technologies and stuff. And there's a lot of cool stuff that is being created here, again, because you guys do heavily invest in new technologies and innovation.
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