Julio Bravo
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first heard Dec 2024
last heard Dec 2024
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I'm not saying that Brazil doesn't, but everything that we use in Brazil for ag was really created 500 miles from here, around here. So I came up here to try and find that. new technology that I can, you know, ship down to Brazil or help companies to bring their business to Brazil.
But also on the tourist side, you know, bringing Americans to Brazil really to get this nonsense competition because there is no competition. I mean, like, okay, we're competing for soybeans, but you only export 30% of your beans. I mean, like we export everything. Like, I want to go back to Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso and Iowa for a comparison.
Your GDP, we have the same population, we have the same amount of land of Mato Grosso and Iowa, and you have four times the size of Mato Grosso GDP. And why is that? Because you figure out, you're adding value to your crops. you're adding value with the corn ethanol, you're adding value with your corn flakes or whatever. Lots of things are created after all the soybean exports or corn exports.
You can get $25 billion into $150 billion things in here in Iowa, which if you go to Mato Grosso, the GDP of Mato Grosso is $25 billion dollars And Iowa GDP is like $170, $180 billion. So we're the same state, right? We're the same size, we're the same people. So what's the difference?
So I think we're in that part where Brazil in the next 20 to 30 years will bring new technology and add value to their crops. So I wanted to be here to get this wave of new technology down in Brazil and help my country to develop new businesses and stuff. But also bringing U.S. folks from different departments of U.S.
just to pay attention on what's happening in Brazil and what's going on in the ag. Agriculture in Brazil is really, it's one of our biggest strengths in the country. I mean, we can say that 34%, 35%, maybe close to 50% of the Brazilian GDP comes from ag in Brazil. If you compare that number here, you're like 3%, 4% of the U.S. GDP comes from ag.
So you don't have that much responsibility on the ag side when it comes to GDP-wise. But in Brazil, we do, and we need to get that rolling and bringing more capital to the Brazilian agriculture. Yeah.
Yeah, I think a little bit of everything. I mean, capital is once, you know, whenever we access international capital, it's going to be good because, again, it's such a smaller economy in Brazil that we need to... have more capital in the country.
But also on the technology side, I think there's so many technologies that are fun here that you guys are building up that we can bring down to Brazil and make a different or fast, you know. And again, when you compare a US farmer and a Brazilian farmer, the average age of a farmer in Brazil, it's 44 years old.
Yeah. They're very young farmers.
That's a lot of muscle. Yeah. That's what I keep telling everyone. It's like your average age farm here is like 50-something. Oh, that's like 58 or 60. Yeah. Yeah. If you go down in Brazil, it's 44, 45. If you go up central parts of Brazil, it can get down to 38. Wow. So they're like second generation farmers that are taking over. So they're very early adopters.
And we've been early adopters of all the U.S. technology, right? Everything in Brazil, it's really made it here. And we were early adopters since the beginning. So...
Again, let's just create a startup and bring it to Brazil. If we create an ag tech or a food tech, let's create it here. We're going to test this year at the next season, and then we're going to have to test it again next year. If you bring that same company to Brazil, you can test three times a year.
Because we have double cropping, and depending on the region, if you have irrigation, you can do a three crop in the same year. So with that... It's a lot of things that can be developed, but in Brazil, you can divide your costs into seasons or maybe three seasons. You use a tractor all year round. Right. You use your combine twice a year. More hours than you. Yeah.
And that's why John Deere was very successful in Brazil. I mean, like those guys arrived in Brazil in 1999 and now they're... not dominating the market, but they're close to dominate the market because those guys grow so much. And same with Acco, same with Case, New Holland, everyone.
Like second market for all of those guys is Brazil because the amount of tractors that we buy, it's just like one farm, one big farm out of Grosso, they have like, I think they have close to 5,000 engines on their farm.
Like one farm in Mato Grosso, it's called Bon Futuro Farm. You can Google about them. It's just insane, the amount of tractors and combines that they have. And that's one farm. Then you can have other farms like that, like SLC.
Yeah.
Do you know SLC? I told you about SLC. SLC in 2006 made the first IPO in ag in the Brazilian trade market. So they're a public trade company. It's a farming. They farm close to 700,000 hectares, which you can multiply that by 2.2.
Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, everyone's kind of discovering the ag in Brazil, especially the Brazilian Finance District, which is in São Paulo, Calferia, Lima. Those guys are going after the farmers now because they've become like... After the pandemic, everyone saw that the only sector that didn't stop was ag. So everyone started to pay attention more of ag worldwide.
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