Fazenda Cachoeira 2C was founded in 1945 by Celsius Garcia Cid, my grandfather, a Spanish immigrant who arrived to Brazil in 1928.
Today my brother Gabriel and I are the third generation of Garcia Cids to manage the farm.
It is a bull breeding farm and we currently have 350 cattle on the farm, 200 cows and 150 bulls and calves. We have six bulls to naturally service the cows and the others are used for AI or sold.
Nelore cattle from the Zebú breed. \ Amy Forde
The best heifers stay on the farm and are kept on as replacements. The others are sold.
The most expensive bull ever sold from the farm was a three-year-old called Nisha DC and sold for €115,378 (BRL500,000). On other farms outside of breeding and depending on the breed, cattle go to the factory at two years of age at 600kg liveweight.
Land
The farm sits on 280ha of land, 40% is used for crops such as corn and soy, 25% is pasture for grazing and 13% is kept for hay.
The yield of the hay is around 3,700kg/ha and we also sell a lot of hay off the farm
The corn is planted at the same time as the grass and once the corn is cut for silage the cattle go into the field to graze. The stocking rate on the farm is 6.4LU/ha. The fields set aside for hay are irrigated with water from a private well on the farm, with the water coming from the nearby Tibagi River. The yield of the hay is around 3,700kg/ha and we also sell a lot of hay off the farm. The remaining 22% of land is preserved forest ground.
Importing cattle from India
In 1957, my grandfather Celso Garcia Cid began working on importing Zebu cattle to Brazil.
In 1960 the first of two loads of Zebu cattle arrived to Brazil, with 112 animals arriving. The second load of cattle arrived in 1962. This was to refresh cattle bloodlines in the country.
Three types of Zebu cattle were brought in, Gir, Nelore and Guzerá.
More than one-third of Gir cattle in Brazil today are descended from just one of those Gir bulls imported, Krishna.
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Fazenda Cachoeira 2C was founded in 1945 by Celsius Garcia Cid, my grandfather, a Spanish immigrant who arrived to Brazil in 1928.
Today my brother Gabriel and I are the third generation of Garcia Cids to manage the farm.
It is a bull breeding farm and we currently have 350 cattle on the farm, 200 cows and 150 bulls and calves. We have six bulls to naturally service the cows and the others are used for AI or sold.
Nelore cattle from the Zebú breed. \ Amy Forde
The best heifers stay on the farm and are kept on as replacements. The others are sold.
The most expensive bull ever sold from the farm was a three-year-old called Nisha DC and sold for €115,378 (BRL500,000). On other farms outside of breeding and depending on the breed, cattle go to the factory at two years of age at 600kg liveweight.
Land
The farm sits on 280ha of land, 40% is used for crops such as corn and soy, 25% is pasture for grazing and 13% is kept for hay.
The yield of the hay is around 3,700kg/ha and we also sell a lot of hay off the farm
The corn is planted at the same time as the grass and once the corn is cut for silage the cattle go into the field to graze. The stocking rate on the farm is 6.4LU/ha. The fields set aside for hay are irrigated with water from a private well on the farm, with the water coming from the nearby Tibagi River. The yield of the hay is around 3,700kg/ha and we also sell a lot of hay off the farm. The remaining 22% of land is preserved forest ground.
Importing cattle from India
In 1957, my grandfather Celso Garcia Cid began working on importing Zebu cattle to Brazil.
In 1960 the first of two loads of Zebu cattle arrived to Brazil, with 112 animals arriving. The second load of cattle arrived in 1962. This was to refresh cattle bloodlines in the country.
Three types of Zebu cattle were brought in, Gir, Nelore and Guzerá.
More than one-third of Gir cattle in Brazil today are descended from just one of those Gir bulls imported, Krishna.
Read more
Brazilian agriculture in numbers
Diversifying into soya beans from sugar cane in Brazil
Top Brazilian dairy farmers rearing to expand
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