F4F - Julio Bravo - A Look Inside Brazilian Agriculture
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So when you see guys like that investing in ag, who are us to not invest in ag, right? So you see like the three most rich persons in the world investing in agriculture because their businesses stopped during pandemic. Ag didn't stop, right? Because the food needs to be produced anyways. And three times a day, everyone in the world needs to eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Someone will provide that food for that guy.
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So, listeners, welcome to the show. This is a Farm for Fun show that was not planned at all. Tanner and I went to coffee with an amazing person this morning. His name is Julio, not Julio. Bravo. And you are from Brazil. And I'm going to let you introduce yourself and what part of Brazil you're from. And just go through your whole story of how you came to the United States. You're going back for something and you're coming back. And everything that you do, just give us the 30,000-foot view.
All right. Thanks for having me. It's a lot of fun. It's my first interview in English, I guess.
Really? Yeah, well. We can do this in Spanish.
We're not sharing Portuguese. All right. Yeah, let's try.
Tanner and I won't be very present.
Let's have AI figure this out. There we go. Yeah. So, yeah. So, I am from a state called Rio Grande do Sul. It's really deep south of Brazil, right on the border with Argentina and Paraguay. And I grew up there. Back in the days, I got a scholarship to come up here. I was a foreign exchange student at the Quad Cities area. And I went to Davenport Central High School. And through the World Food Prize, they invited kids to the Youth Program Institute to come up here and present paper about ag. And back in the days, I created a paper and came up here to present. present to, you know, a whole bunch of people. And then I stayed here for six months doing an exchange program. Then I went back to Brazil. So I went back to Brazil. I started working for John Deere.
And working for John Deere, like your heads go blue, right? It's just like a lot of things change because it's an international company in a really small town where I was from. Horizontina is called the town. Fun fact about the city is Gisele Bündchen, former...
Yeah, you dated her, right?
No, I didn't. He dumped her.
He dumped her, yeah, for his wife. Yeah, so your wife is much hotter, right?
Oh, yeah, of course. Way hotter, yeah. So, yeah, she's, so Giselle is Tom Brady's former wife, right? Yeah. So I was... Tom Brady who? Yeah, Tom Brady who, right?
Yeah.
So you see my state right at the south. So state of Rio Grande do Sul. I was born in North Park, close to Misiones province. Yeah. Right up there. And then I moved to Curitiba. You see Curitiba in the state of Paraná? Right up there by the ocean. Curitiba, yeah. So, yeah, that's my city right now. Curitiba. Yeah, that's where I found my company. I got married, got kids there. It's the capital of the state.
So, like, when you say states and we're looking at, you got Uruguay.
No, Uruguay is a country. Country, yeah. And then Argentina and Paraguay. Okay. Paraguay is another country on the border, which is a very big ag country as well. Uruguay is a very big ag country as well. And then state of Paraná, Santa Catarina, and Sao Paulo are big. And state of Mato Grosso do Sul, Mato Grosso is up there. So it's really all those states are ag states somehow. So zoom in there, Tanner.
Let's get a lay of the land by his hometown. How did you say that? Curitiba.
Curitiba. Yeah. They say Curitiba in English. It's Curitiba in Portuguese. Curitiba. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. So it's a 3 million inhabitant city. It's a big city. Holy smokes.
That looks bigger than New York.
Yeah. It's actually half size of New York, I think. One third size of New York. But it's a big city. And it's a very ag state. What is that? It's never heard. It's probably Foucault.
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