Union Agriculture Group emerged from the vision of its founders who believed that combining a long standing operational knowledge in Uruguay with new management techniques and financial structuring was the key to building a new kind of agriculture company, able to grow successfully in a changing and always more competitive industry.

After having operated agricultural projects in Uruguay for more than 30 years, the team started acquiring land in 2005 in order to develop its own properties. Initial focus was into niche activities like blueberries, olives and honey with a second stage of getting into big scale animal and grains production.

In 2008 all of the properties where rolled into a single private company and international institutional investors were invited to invest along the management team to take the company further into its next growth phase before seeking an international public listing. This company is Union Agriculture Group, also known by friends by its initials "UAG".