SLC Agrícola holds of farmable land worth R$2.376 billion. That area is distributed through 16 farms, and each farm name starts with P and has 8 letters. Three of SLC's farms are controlled by SLC Agrícola's subsidiary LandCo. Two other farms are farmed by SLC Agricola through a joint venture with Mitsui Co., while Pioneira is farmed in collaboration with Dois Vales Group. Farms:
Perdizes -
Paiaguás -
Planorte -
Pamplona -
Planalto -
Pioneira -
Planeste -
Parnaíba -
Parnaguá -
Paineira -
Parceiro -
Paladino -
Palmares -
Panorama -
Piratini -
Research units
Each SLC farm is equipped with a research unit, where the main research topics are fertilizing systems; soil handling systems; competition between soy cultivation, cotton cultivation, and corn hybrids; plantation seasons and rehearsals of evaluation of fungicides efficiency, insecticides, and herbicides. There experiments simulate the real land conditions and are conducted scientifically. SLC Agrícola performs 190 yearly land tests, and such tests happen in an area of.
Cultivation rotation system
The cultivation rotation systems between soy, cotton, and corn is effectively utilized within all of SLC Agrícola's farms and provides several benefits to the productive system, along with spreading the fixed costs. The use of this technique helps the farms have better control over infective plants, fewer outbreaks of pests and diseases on the fields, and better usage of the machinery and crew.
Soil management
SLC Agrícola adopted a no-till system with the goal of significantly reducing the levels soil loss, water loss, and nutrients loss. With this system in place, it became possible to reduce the production costs through the reduction of machine operations in the fields and the conservation of soil and nutrients, which consequently reduced the need for heavy and expensive fertilization. The system provides long-term increase in productive potential of the cultivated plantations. The company believes that the sustainability of the productive system mainly depends of the correct management of the soil.
Soy
SLC Agrícola is one of the biggest soy products of Brazil, with plans to plan in 2013/14. The company culottes soy in the main agricultural regions of Brazil, and its production is commercialized to both national and international markets. Soy is the main supplier of vegetable protein used to feed humans and animals, and it is also broadly used as raw material for the production of oil and biofuels. SLC Agrícola integrates the executive committee of Round Table on Responsible Soy Association, committed to making the value of soy more responsible and also to implementing a global system to promote production, processing, distribution, and consumption of responsible soy. Productivity:
2013/14:
2014/15:
The area harvested until 30/04/2015 corresponds to 82% of the of cultivated soy.
History
SLC Agricola was founded in 1977 with the acquisition of two farms in the South Region of Brazil in Rio Grande do Sul, where soybeans, corn, and wheat were planted. In the agribusiness for 70 years, SLC Group started as an industry in 1945, in Horizontina, southern Brazil, producing tractors and combines, and creating a joint venture with John Deere in 1979, which lasted for 20 years. In 1980 SLC Agrícola bought the first farm in the cerrado biome: Pamplona Farm in Goiás State.
SLC Group
was founded in 1945 in the city of Horizontina, State of Rio Grande do Sul, by three families of German immigrants, among them Frederico Jorge Logemann's family. The SLC Group founded the first Brazilian harvester manufacturing industry. It has an over-28-year relationship with John Deere, including a joint venture for manufacturing harvesters and tractors from 1979 to 1999.
