8 April 2021, English, 45 Minutes
PresentationBreakdown
A tour of Brazilian dairies with a discussion of special challenges to profitability in Brazil with Dr. Ramos from 3RB Labs.
- Overview of Brazilian agriculture
- Compost barn – changed the brazilian dairy industry
- Number 1 farm in Brazil – 80.000 liters/day
- Holstein is the main breed between the top 100
- Grazing is present in the top 100
- Compost in a tunnel ventilation – heat stress is our main challenge
- New government that is honest and knows the importance of agriculture in our GDP (Bolsonaro)
- Brazil is a big player in agricultural commodities
- Milk is being produced everywhere in Brazil
- Top 100 dairies will invest to grow
- Our government, NOW, is on our side
- Land is not a problem
- Commodity is not a problem
- The biggest dairy producers in Brazil have great technology, great genetics, excellent management
- Free stalls / compost barns – are where milk is being produced
- The main source of forage is corn silage
- All the technologies that are available to the world are present in Brazilian dairy farms
- The biggest producer of milk makes Money and wants to grow!!!!
- Growing calves with various systems
- Individual housed calves is very common
- Carousel and robots are present in Brazil
- Milk production in Brazil: few produces a lot, a lot produces a few amount (typical commodity structure)
- Top 100 dairy producers in Brazil
- Challenges and opportunities to produce milk in Brazil
- Brazil is big – almost one whole Europe can fit inside Brazil
- Brazil is big, has a lot of land that is STILL available to agriculture
- Brazil is a big player in most of the agricultural comodities
- The use of land is becaming more and more efficient, less land needed to produce more.
- We can do 3 crops / year
- Amazon rainforest is preserved
- Milk is in the Central – South region
- Every city in Brazil has at least 1 dairy producer
- Milk is produced everywhere in Brazil
- Two main “breeds” – holstein and holstein x Gyr (bos indicus)
- Milk / price seasonality
- Price system – volume
- Most common facility – free stall
- Lots of agricultural practices to produce milk
- All the technologies available in the world are in Brazil daires
- Excellent farms with great facilities
- Pasture is NOT the main source of forage, however is a very common system in Brazil
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Dr. Marcelo Ramos
Director 3Rlab, Brazil
Dr. Ramos was one of the first distributors for AMTS and was the spark for this Nutritionist series. He will take us on a tour of Brazilian dairies with a discussion of special challenges to profitability in his region.
