Agri Business Review: Specials Magazine

Fertile soils and steady rainfall make Uruguay’s rolling plains South America’s most productive farmlands. While nature lays the groundwork, sustained yield depends on careful conservation and skilled stewardship. That’s where Suma AgroValor excels, making every hectare count. As a strategic farm management partner to landowners, Suma AgroValor combines agronomic expertise with clear, honest and consistent communication. When weather shifts, field conditions change and plans need to adapt, clients hear it immediately with context, options and clear reasoning. For those who view their farms as both an investment and a passion, this transparent, inclusive model provides visibility and fosters true partnership. Suma AgroValor’s hands-on, accountable and data-driven approach ensures every plot achieves steady, regenerative growth across multiple harvest cycles. Its disciplined management of farmland and livestock reflects its proven expertise. When farms expand, coordinating crop operations, managing livestock and allocating resources become complex even for experienced landowners. It requires close monitoring and accurate field insights. Suma AgroValor simplifies these with a data-driven approach that restores soil, balances crop rotations and applies sustainable inputs to enhance yields and improve efficiency. “We combine global know-how and a practical approach to help farms achieve tangible results. Rather than operating remotely, our ‘boots-on-the-ground’ agronomists in Uruguay observe and adapt practices to fluctuating soil and weather conditions,” says Wilfred Morren, founder.

Guided by Embrapa, its state-owned agricultural research corporation, Brazil has become a global reference point for pasture science, and SGM Seeds is one of its most influential ambassadors in the world market. The company exports tropical pasture seeds to 23 countries while operating 20 retail stores across Brazil that serve farmers with a broad range of agricultural and cattle products, linking cutting-edge Brazilian know-how to on-farm outcomes at home and abroad. Each year, SGM brings international distributors to Brazil to visit farms, observe best practices in pasture establishment, and exchange practical insights with Brazilian producers. This is followed by sending the company’s own technicians overseas to conduct seminars and training across Central and South America, ensuring that knowledge circulates both ways to improve on-farm results. “The practice of exchanging information and knowledge among countries allows us to give the best ideas to promote our seeds better than the competitors,” says João Antônio Fagundes Neto, CEO. That exchange is grounded in measurable performance. In many situations where competitors recommend planting 8 to 10 kilograms per hectare, SGM’s high-vigor seed lots can achieve target stands at roughly 5 to 6 kilograms per hectare. These seeds deliver material savings while sustaining density and pasture quality when properly managed for local conditions. Tropical Vigor, Local Proof SGM credits this advantage to rigorous purity standards and its exclusive methodology, which uses specialized machinery to individually select the most vigorous seeds for germination. Selected lots are subsequently validated across diverse soil types to confirm performance under stress. On the ground, SGM champions integrated, yield-stacking models that convert a single area into multiple profit windows across the year. One widely adopted system plants corn with pasture seed interrow. After corn harvest, cattle immediately graze the established pasture, and the rotation continues with soybeans and hay for a third revenue cycle, compounding productivity from the same hectares when seasons and management permit.