Wednesday, 6 March 2013

Union Agriculture Group has started harvesting its rice. The total planted area this season was 4,430 ha distributed across our San Francisco, Yaguari, Villa Lucero and Merin farms. The plantations ...

Friday, 21 December 2012

UAG has finished sowing 13,857 hectares of soybean across nine of its farms. Arroyo Blanco is the farm with the largest planted area with 3,578 ha. The total planted area ...

Monday, 12 November 2012

UAG has finished sowing its rice at all its farms. Heavy rains in the catchment areas of our dams have seen their water levels rise in October, which enable us ...

Monday, 24 September 2012

Union Agriculture Group announces the acquisition of 20% of a company that owns a 2,401 ha farm located in eastern Uruguay and a 15% stake in Corrales dam. Union Agriculture ...

Friday, 31 August 2012

Union Agriculture Group announces the acquisition of a Uruguayan beef cattle farming company. The company operates owned and third party land in eastern Uruguay and has over 5,000 heads of ...

Friday, 3 August 2012

We have finished sowing 9,895 ha of wheat and so far plants are growing according to our ex...

Friday, 29 June 2012

On the 5th of June UAG completed the soybean harvest for the 2012 season with results above our projections. We harvested 5,694 ha of the first soybean crop with ...

Friday, 18 May 2012

On the 8th of May we finish the rice harvesting for this year’s crop. We harvested 4,385 hectares among San Francisco, Yaguari, Villa Lucero and Merin farms, with an ...

Monday, 16 April 2012

On April UAG finished the works to upgrade the cattle handling facilities in two farms: Paso del Sauce and El ...

Thursday, 15 March 2012

UAG completed its planned upgrade on the deep water well facilities in EL Tambo farm. The improvements consist of 3 deep water wells (c. 50m deep), which have an average co...

Friday, 27 January 2012

As part of UAG’s Corporate Social Responsibility Program, on January 17th at Casco Patricio, the company signed an agreement with Fundación IRAUy, the winner of UAG’s “Research, Innovation & Development ...

Tuesday, 10 January 2012

UAG has finalized an excellent wheat harvest, with high yields that far exceeded what was originally budgeted. Simultaneously with the wheat harvest, soybeans were seeded, totaling a much high...

Monday, 21 November 2011

UAG has finished sowing its rice at all of its farms. Even though we had a tough seeding season beginning due to excess rain, UAG teams at the farms managed ...

Wednesday, 24 August 2011

UAG has signed the acquisition of two new properties that will be part of Region 1 on the NE. Both farms are located at Rivera near to the Brazilian border. La Pradera ...

Tuesday, 23 August 2011

UAG has acquired a 19.6% stake of Casarone Agroindustrial. Casarone owns two farms on the NE of Uruguay which together account for more than 20,000 hectares of land suitable for rice ...

Thursday, 4 August 2011

During July, UAG finished the traceability of 100% of its cattle older than 6 months old. This means that all of UAG’s cattle have been identified with an ear-tag with ...

Wednesday, 22 June 2011

We finished the wheat sowing in San Francisco, San Luis and Arroyo Blanco. We were able to sow 100% of the hectares planned. So far, wheat has grown and developed ...

Saturday, 4 June 2011

We have acquired our second property at the province of Treinta y Tres. It´s name is La Quemada and has a surface of 918 hectares. Our main activities there will be...

Saturday, 4 June 2011

At this date, 3rd June 2011, we have sown more than half of the wheat area planned for this year. Sowing started at La Beba and La Victoria properties, and ...

Saturday, 4 June 2011

Last may 2011 we completed the harvest of soybean and rice for this year. Rice productivity was very good, keeping time with the moment when Uruguay obtained the largest volume of rice cr...

Friday, 13 May 2011

We have just acquired our fifth property of 2011. Its name is El Pantanoso and is located on the North East of Cerro Largo province. It has a surface of 3,013 ...

Friday, 13 May 2011

We have recently acquired a new property in the province of Paysandú. The property, La Victoria, has 4,286 hectares and has become UAG´s third acquisition in this province. La Vi...

Monday, 2 May 2011

UAG has just bought a new property in the province of Tacuarembó. It has 2816 hectares and we have called it Aldea San Joaquín. It has medium-height fertility soil and ...

Thursday, 28 April 2011

We have just acquired our third property in the province of Cerro Largo. We have named it Paso Arriera and it has 1999 hectares. This property will be used for ...

Wednesday, 27 April 2011

Next Friday, 29th April 2011 UAG will give a conference at the Uruguayan Agricultural College. The topic will be "UAG´s Productive Project proposals and Open Tender.” The conference will begin at...

Wednesday, 27 April 2011

UAG has participated in an Agribusiness conference regarding foreign investments and agricultural expansion offers. It took place at the Sociedad Rural Brasilera´s Headquarters located in Sao Paulo, Brazil. UAG was ...

Wednesday, 6 April 2011

We have recently acquired a new property, El Castillo, which has 1975 hectares of top quality Estate. It is located 60 kilometers from the provincial capital of Salto. This is ou...

Wednesday, 23 March 2011

Within the framework of its Corporate Social Responsibility Program, and with the purpose of promoting and encouraging projects in the field of innovation, research and development, Union Agriculture Group S.A. (U...

Thursday, 10 March 2011

Continuing its expansion phase, UAG acquired its first property in the Province of Artigas. The property, Colonia Palma, and has more than 1,200 hectares of land. Colonia Palma has soils ...

Friday, 25 February 2011

UAG added 266 hectares to its Yaguarí estate located in Tacuarembó. This extension of Yaguarí is very important to the dairy farm, as it will improve the distribution of grazing ...

Wednesday, 9 February 2011

We have successfully closed UAG’s fourth round of private finance after having deployed all previously raised funds in accordance with our strategic plan and program. This private finance package was coordinated by a...

Wednesday, 26 January 2011

Currently all our rice fields are being irrigated following a superb emergence of the plants and excellent development during the crop's first stages of growth. The crop is entering the ...

Thursday, 20 January 2011

UAG signed its first acquisition of 2011. The property, "La Beba" comprises5,220 hectares, more than half of which will be used for grain production through the double cropping system of so...

Friday, 17 December 2010

Last week UAG made a new acquisition. We have named this property Melo because it´s located two kilometers from the provincial capital of Cerro Largo, Melo. This 207 hectare estate wi...

Wednesday, 8 December 2010

UAG has closed the acquisition of its new property named Merin. It has 12.135 hectares of land and is our first property in the province of Treinta y Tres. Me...

Monday, 29 November 2010

Last Friday, November 26th, we began harvesting wheat in Villa Lucero and achieved a high yield crop. The harvest will be complete in less than two we...

Monday, 29 November 2010

Since 2008, UAG has been working on the quality management system. Our Human Resources Department was adequately trained and has worked hard to achieve the recognition of the company management ...

Monday, 29 November 2010

Last Thursday, November 25th,  we celebrated the opening of our new building in the presence of national authorities  and leading representatives of local and international business en...

Monday, 29 November 2010

Since May, we have been working to obtain the quality certification in good agricultural practices in our blueberries. In the pre-harvest season we have trained our staff in food hygiene an...

Thursday, 21 October 2010

Rice sowing at our properties in Rivera is progressing as planned. Rice cultivars being sown are: Arrayán, Puitá CL and Avaxi. Over 500 hectares of rice were sown this week at Sa...

Friday, 15 October 2010

This week at Villa Lucero we have successfully completed the sowing of rice and we have begun sowing sorghum and soybeans, taking advantage of the optimal soil moisture conditions. Moreover, ...

Friday, 15 October 2010

Blueberries harvest will be starting in the next few days. During the last months we have been preparing for this season: improving the farms’ infrastructure, purchasing new machinery and training ...

Friday, 15 October 2010

Beef cattle birth season is proceeding favorably. So far 1,500 Aberdeen Angus and Hereford calves have been born of 4,500 that are expected by the end of November. These calves ...

Friday, 15 October 2010

This month we continued to prepare our honey harvest taking special care of bee’s growth and fecundation. We expect a 40% growth in our beehives and a big volume of ...

Thursday, 7 October 2010

Having high-quality machinery is a key factor for the success of crops in the agricultural sector. It is for this reason that UAG acquired new and modern machinery. Sowing machines ...

Wednesday, 29 September 2010

On September 16th we received with enthusiasm the birth of our first two Braford calves. One female and one male. They were the first result from the importation of embryos ...

Friday, 10 September 2010

Yesterday (September 9th, 2010) we closed our most recent acquisition called Itacabó. This property has an extension of 7,064 hectares and it is our first property in the Province of ...

Tuesday, 24 August 2010

UAG signed an agreement with the blueberries exporter TECNOVITAL www.tecnovital.com. At the same time, the company VITALBERRY MARKETING CHILE www.vitalberry.cl is the main shareholder of TECNOVITAL.  Both companies are well ...

Monday, 16 August 2010

UAG announces its latest addition named "Sarmento". It is a property of 980 hectares which will be effectively acquired when all legal formalities are met by the seller. Sarmento is ...

Tuesday, 27 July 2010

UAG announces the closing of the acquisition of a new property to expand our north east agricultural pole. Arroyo Blanco is a farm of 3.611 hectares in the northern department ...

Friday, 9 July 2010

In order to increase the production potential of the apicultural business unit UAG has decided to start up activities on the northern properties of UAG. For that reason we have tr...

Wednesday, 30 June 2010

Now that winter has begun in Uruguay and wheat has been seeded we have time to work on infrastructural projects. At all our properties we have done careful screening of th...

Friday, 4 June 2010

Last week we closed our most recent acquisition, namely San Luis. This is now our most northern farm that is bordering Brazil. It has 2.897 hectares and will be used fo...

Friday, 4 June 2010

UAG celebrated the completion of its last private placement and received a tombstone of the deal during a dinner to which all of the company’s staff participated. The celebration was al...

Friday, 4 June 2010

A time consuming activity has been the identification of all cattle at our farms. The Uruguayan ministry of agriculture launched a mandatory program which requires the individual registration of livestock by...

Friday, 21 May 2010

After the harvesting season we have now started the seeding of wheat on our farms in the north of Uruguay. This winter crop is ideal for our rotation system as it...

Tuesday, 18 May 2010

At our recently acquired farm Villa Lucero we have started several activities to integrate the farm into our agricultural management plan. In April and May we have harvested the rice and so...

Friday, 30 April 2010

UAG has started the harvesting of soy beans on its farms. By mid April plants were mature enough for harvesting and climatic conditions were adequate for the start of operations. ...

Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Last week the legal proceedings were finalised for the acquisition of a new farm through the signing of the final contract by UAG chairman Juan Sartori, director Jérome Tordo, CFO ...

Friday, 26 March 2010

UAG Chairman Juan Sartori and CEO Oscar Costa visited the harvesting of our rice production. This is the first harvesting of rice in the history of UAG. We have started the ...

Thursday, 11 March 2010

For our farms in the north of Uruguay we have bought several new equipments of ´state of the art´ technology. The equipment we bought includes sewing equipment, harvesting machines and ...

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

Our rice production has shown excellent growth in recent months. It hasn't been necessary to apply more fertilizer as climatic conditions were in this last phase very favourable to production (h...

Wednesday, 10 March 2010

As a result of steady rainfall in recent months, our beehives have been developing rapidly and with good reproduction rates. Thanks to this our deployment program will be completed ahead of schedule.    Our next project is to install new beehives in Yaguarí...

Friday, 15 January 2010

In San Francisco, soybean is a first crop since it was seeded on plots that rested for more than six months. On the other hand, Yaguarí has only second crop ...

Wednesday, 13 January 2010

Thursday, 13th January 2010 The dairy farm is planned to be developed at Yaguarí. Next month a new milking facility will start to be built in order to be able to ...

Friday, 8 January 2010

Friday, 8th January 2010 The last week of December our staff and their family celebrated the arrival of 2010 at a farmhouse in José Ignacio located thirty kilometres from Punta del ...

Monday, 4 January 2010

Last December UAG started with the embryo transfer program using Braford embryos imported from a very well internationally recognized pure bred farm in Australia. The Braford breed offers two important ...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

We keep improving the pasture at La Veronica. Sorghum for grazing in summer time has been recently seeded. It will be grazed using a rotational system with very low ...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

The Agronomist Engineer Juan Jose Mastropierro is being appointed as the new manager for the commercial crop division. Juan Jose has graduated from the College of Agriculture and is an ...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

New genetic material has been imported in association with the biggest insemination company in the world, SELECTA, to set up the basis for our Braford pure operation. Embryos have been ...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

The Doctor Gustavo Ortiz, an specialist in developing milking facilities, visited Yaguarí in order to enlarge facilities for milking 500 cows. A new milking machine for 24 cows at a time, ...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

Last month our top management team had a business meeting at our farm Yaguarí. They analyzed the basis of exporting pregnant Holstein heifers from Uruguay for dairy farmers in Brazil. ...

Tuesday, 24 November 2009

La Veronica has increased in area to 7287 hectare. UAG just bought 2118 hectare conforming a larger and more productive ranch. Soils of the new area are higher quality and that will ...

Monday, 9 November 2009

Monday 9th November, 2009 Today at midday UAG signed the purchase of a new farm: EL TINTO. It is a 1.597 hectare farm next to Yaguarí and from an operational standpoint ...

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

27th October, 2009 Yesterday UAG purchased Rincon de La Pipa, a 2666 hectare farm located in Cerro Largo Province. This property will be operated rotating grain production (soybeans and wheat) with ...

Wednesday, 28 October 2009

26th October, 2009 On Monday evening UAG signed the purchase of a new property at the north of Uruguay: Establecimiento Yaguari.Yaguari is located in Tacuarembó Province, fifty kilometres away from the ...

Thursday, 22 October 2009

22th october, 2009 San Francisco is a new farm UAG starts to operate today. It is located in the Rivera province, 400 kilometers northeast Montevideo. It is a 3,710 hectare farm ...

Tuesday, 6 October 2009

6th october, 2009 We have sent wool samples to be analyzed at the Uruguayan Wool Secretariat. The samples will be tested for strength, fibre length, bulkiness, diameter and chemical contamination. The ...

Monday, 5 October 2009

5th october, 2009 We are preparing the production of our first's queen bees and we keep working to increase the number of beehives. On the other hand, we are searching for new establishments to ...

Thursday, 1 October 2009

30th september, 2009 We applied urea. This chemical product increases the quality of the crop by providing nutrients to the plantations as well as supports their growth and helps to overcome possible ...

Tuesday, 29 September 2009

28th september, 2009 The sanitation of our plants have been so far excellent, with all of them in a very good state of health. Also, the transplanted plants are recovering, showing ...

Monday, 7 September 2009

7th September, 2009 Fortunately La Veronica registered 158 millimetres of rains in the first week of September, exceeding the reservoirs storage capacity. Apart of this we fenced the field for the ...

Saturday, 5 September 2009

August 2009 In august UAG successfully completed a second private placement among institutional investors. This new financing puts us in an even better competitive situation with a strong balance sheet and a ...

Monday, 27 July 2009

  27th July, 2009 We have been making the annual pruning in all the blueberry fields. We expect we could end this task by the end of August. We focused mainly on ...

Monday, 27 July 2009

  18th July, 2009 On 17th July we started a new course aimed at all the personnel in our fields. It was taught by our machinery specialist, Mr. José Pintos, and was ...

Tuesday, 23 June 2009

23th June, 2009 In the 73rd screen acution two lots of excellent   condition livestock were ...

Monday, 22 June 2009

22nd june, 2009 In order to keep and strengthen the smallest calves, we placed them in natural land feeding them with oats and beginning ration. We continue branding female calves and ...

Friday, 19 June 2009

15th June, 2009 Cows and bulls were marked in La Verónica. On the other hand, ovines were sheared. The main reason to shear is wool selling but also because sheeps stay light ...

Tuesday, 9 June 2009

29th may, 2009 From May 25 to 29th, our Blueberries Project Manager, Andrés Costa, has assisted to a training event in Chile. This training had two courses: "Second technical-commerce update seminar ...

Friday, 29 May 2009

28th may, 2009  We did traceability and castration this month. We cleaned the oats sowed zone and ryegrass taking out the stones. We will plant eucalyptus in order to give cattle shade ...

Friday, 29 May 2009

28th may, 2009 Many calves have received their identification device. This process not only let us identify each animal with a unique lifetime number, but also is an excellent way to control ...

Monday, 13 April 2009

13th april, 2009 Since January our apiculture section has amazingly improved and the beehives have responded accordingly. We have 827 beehives, seven of which have an apiary whose queen bees were ...

Monday, 13 April 2009

13th april, 2009 In just one week, one hundred and twenty hectares of La Verónica were sowed with oat and ryegrass foreseeing the winter lack of pastures. Apart from that, more tan ...

Monday, 13 April 2009

13th april, 2009 A great improvement is being noticed in all our blueberry fields, thanks to the latest rains, which made a notorious improvement over the situation of last summer.Almost all ...

Thursday, 12 February 2009

4th february, 2009 Union Agriculture Group has just been highlighted in a global agriculture report published by Macquarie Bank, where it was the only private company to be mentioned. The report studies ...

Wednesday, 24 December 2008

  20th december, 2008 On Saturday UAG's team and its partners celebrated the arrival of 2009 in Casco Patricio. During the day they toured the countryside; lamb picnicked and enjoyed the spectacle ...

Wednesday, 24 December 2008

19th december, 2008 On Friday the Christmas baskets were given to our rural st...

Tuesday, 23 December 2008

15th december, 2008 Plants are currently being pruned so as to maximize yields and quality throughout the life of the planting. It promotes both plant survival and growth. Proper pruning practices ...

Monday, 15 December 2008

UAG has completed an institutional private placement lead by a syndicate of banks composed by Wellington West, Canaccord Capital and Macquarie Bank. Newly raised funds will be deployed to expand the ...

Monday, 15 December 2008

UAG has completed an institutional private placement lead by a syndicate of banks composed by Wellington West, Canaccord Capital and Macquarie Bank. Newly raised funds will be deployed to expand the ...