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.
In another model, producers integrate eucalyptus with pasture, raising cattle between tree alleys while the timber asset matures, blending short-cycle animal production with long-cycle forestry to lift total farm returns without expanding land area.
The company’s seed-to-feed approach supports cattle across the seasonal curve. In Brazil’s rainy season, well-established tropical pastures supply the primary ration, underpinning the country’s competitiveness in cost per kilogram of meat on grass. In the dry months, SGM manufactures about 100,000 tons of animal nutrition annually across 40 tailored formulations, fine-tuned for milk or beef, age class, and seasonal needs to provide a turnkey continuum from pasture establishment to targeted supplementation. This integrated offering enables producers to maintain performance and weight gain as forage conditions change, keeping systems balanced and predictable throughout the production cycle.
Precision, Integration, and Sustainability
Sustainability is designed into both seed and service. High plant density from vigorous stands enables farmers to carry equal or greater cattle numbers on smaller pastures, reducing the pressure to convert forest and aligning with Brazilian legal requirements to preserve native areas on farms.
SGM’s drone division functions as the company’s technology arm, helping customers spray with precision and spread seed uniformly, which improves stand uniformity and reduces chemical volumes compared to conventional methods. Software-defined no-spray zones protect legal reserves and trees in pasture mosaics, and night operations allow targeted control of pests that emerge after dark with lower product use.
For smaller producers, SGM provides full-service drone spraying and seeding at area-based pricing, alongside equipment sales, widening access to modern practices without a capital burden.
Across these pillars—vigorously selected seeds, integrated rotations, and precision application—SGM’s promise is to translate Brazil’s pasture science into practical, local advantage. The result is a tighter link between lab and livestock. Less seed to achieve the stand, less land to achieve the output, and less chemical to achieve the protection, all delivered through a model that pairs global expertise with field-level training and service.
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.
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The practice of exchanging information and knowledge among countries allows us to give the best ideas to promote our seeds better than the competitors.
In another model, producers integrate eucalyptus with pasture, raising cattle between tree alleys while the timber asset matures, blending short-cycle animal production with long-cycle forestry to lift total farm returns without expanding land area.
The company’s seed-to-feed approach supports cattle across the seasonal curve. In Brazil’s rainy season, well-established tropical pastures supply the primary ration, underpinning the country’s competitiveness in cost per kilogram of meat on grass. In the dry months, SGM manufactures about 100,000 tons of animal nutrition annually across 40 tailored formulations, fine-tuned for milk or beef, age class, and seasonal needs to provide a turnkey continuum from pasture establishment to targeted supplementation. This integrated offering enables producers to maintain performance and weight gain as forage conditions change, keeping systems balanced and predictable throughout the production cycle.
Precision, Integration, and Sustainability
Sustainability is designed into both seed and service. High plant density from vigorous stands enables farmers to carry equal or greater cattle numbers on smaller pastures, reducing the pressure to convert forest and aligning with Brazilian legal requirements to preserve native areas on farms.
SGM’s drone division functions as the company’s technology arm, helping customers spray with precision and spread seed uniformly, which improves stand uniformity and reduces chemical volumes compared to conventional methods. Software-defined no-spray zones protect legal reserves and trees in pasture mosaics, and night operations allow targeted control of pests that emerge after dark with lower product use.
For smaller producers, SGM provides full-service drone spraying and seeding at area-based pricing, alongside equipment sales, widening access to modern practices without a capital burden.
Across these pillars—vigorously selected seeds, integrated rotations, and precision application—SGM’s promise is to translate Brazil’s pasture science into practical, local advantage. The result is a tighter link between lab and livestock. Less seed to achieve the stand, less land to achieve the output, and less chemical to achieve the protection, all delivered through a model that pairs global expertise with field-level training and service.
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