SLC Agrícola
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| Sociedade Anônima | |
| Traded as | BM&F Bovespa: SLCE3 |
| Industry | Agribusiness |
| Founded | 1977 |
| Headquarters | Porto Alegre, Brasil |
Key people |
Eduardo Logemann, (Chairman) Aurélio Pavinato, (CEO) |
| Products | Soybeans, Cotton, Corn, Coffee, Sugarcane, Wheat |
| Revenue |
 R$ 1.4 billion (2014) |
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R$ 70 million (2014) | |
Number of employees | 2,252 |
| Parent | Grupo SLC (SLC Group) |
| Subsidiaries | LandCo |
| Website | www.slcagricola.com.br |
SLC Agrícola (Schneider Logemann &Cia) (BM&F Bovespa: SLCE3 )is a Brazilian agricultural producer, founded in 1977 by the SLC Group, focusing mainly on cotton, soybean and corn. It was the first Company of its sector (grains and cotton) in the world whose shares were traded in a Stock Exchange, thus becoming a global benchmark in agribusiness. The Company operates 16 farms strategically located in six Brazilian states, totaling 460.6 thousand hectares in the 2014/15 marketing year - 260.9 thousand of which planted with soybean, 98.5 thousand with cotton, 43.4 thousand with corn, and 18.1 thousand with other crops, including coffee, wheat, corn seed and sugarcane. The Company’s business model is based on a large-scale, modern production system, with standardized production units, thoroughly up-to-date technology and rigorous cost control, underpinned by social and environmental responsibility. Currently its biggest competitor is Vanguarda Agro.
Through its history, SLC Agrícola evolved a solid expertise in land acquisitions in new agricultural frontiers. The process of land acquisitions with high yield strives to capture ultimate land valuation of agricultural lands in Brazil, which creates a strong comparative advantage over major producers in the US, China, India, and Argentina.
The Company headquarters is located in 128 Bernardo Pires Street, Santana, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Land Distribution
SLC Agrícola currently holds 460.6 thousand hectares of farmable land worth R$2.376 billion. That area is distributed through 16 farms, and each farm name starts with P and has exactly 8 letters. Three of SLC's farms (Planeste, Panorama, and Piratini) are controlled by SLC Agrícola's subsidiary LandCo. Two other farms (Perdizes and Paladino) are farmed by SLC Agricola through a Joint Venture with Mitsui Co., while Pioneira is farmed in collaboration with Dois Vales Group.
Farms:
- Perdizes (16.798 thousand hectares) (Joint Venture with Mitsui Co.)
- Paiaguás (54.847 thousand hectares)
- Planorte (28.779 thousand hectares)
- Pamplona (18.637 thousand hectares)
- Planalto (20.195 thousand hectares)
- Pioneira (20.088 thousand hectares) (Joint Venture with Dois Vales Group)
- Planeste (41.209 thousand hectares) (LandCo.)
- Parnaíba (54.020 thousand hectares)
- Parnaguá (8.528 thousand hectares)
- Paineira (5.025 thousand hectares)
- Parceiro (11.206 thousand hectares)
- Paladino (21.906 thousand hectares) (Joint Venture with Mitsui Co.)
- Palmares (33.478 thousand hectares)
- Panorama (21.991 thousand hectares) (LandCo.)
- Piratini (13.327 thousand hectares) (LandCo.)
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 simulates the real land conditions and are conducted according to scientific credits. SLC Agrícola performs 190 yearly land tests, and such tests happen in an area of 1.300 hectares of land.
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 reach the following results: better control over infective plants, less outbreaks of pests and diseases on the fields, and better usage of the machinery and crew.
The cultivation of soy, cotton, and corn reaches, furthermore, incredible outcomes, since the fertilizer that is produces as a byproduct of the current cultivation provides nutrients that also serve as fertilizers to the next cultivation.
Soil Management
SLC Agrícola adopted no-till system with the goal of significantly reducing the levels soil loss, water loss, and nutrients loss. With this system in place, it becomes possible to reduce the production costs through the reduction of machine operations in the fields and the conservation of soil and nutrients, which consequently reduces the need for heavy and expensive fertilization. Moreover, the system provides long-term increase in productive potential of the cultivated plantations. The company strongly 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 intention of planting 185.3 thousand hectares 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 vegetal protein utilized to feed humans and animals, and it is also broadly utilizes as raw material for the production of oil and biofuels.
SLC Agrícola integrates the Executive Committee of Round Table on Responsible Soy Association, being committed to make the value of soy more responsible and also to implement a global system to promote production, processing, distribution, and consumption of responsible soy.
Productivity:
2013/14: 2.914 kilograms per hectare
2014/15: 3.150 kilograms per hectare
The area harvested until 30/04/2015 corresponds to 82% of the 206.9 thousand hectares 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 city, southern of Brazil, producing tractors and combines, 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
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 over 28 year-relationship with John Deere, including a joint-venture for manufacturing harvesters and tractors from 1979 to 1999. This relationship helped the Company to obtain technological skills that distinguish SLC Agricola in the agricultural sector.