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Agreement with TECNOVITAL

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vitalberryUAG 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 known by the market for being the best and biggest blueberries exporters in the region. With this strategic alliance we will optimize the blueberries exportation regarding quality, logistics and distribution. TECNOVITAL URUGUAY, represented by Mrs. Karina Damasco, is currently working at our offices.
 
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New Acquisition: Sarmento

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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 ...

Acquisition Arroyo Blanco

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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 ...

Growth Of Apicultural Production Potential

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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...

Infrastructural Projects

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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...

Acquisition San Luis

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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...

Financing Tombstone Delivered To Uag

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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...

Identification And Traceability Of Cattle

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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...

Seeding Wheat

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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...

Integration Of Villa Lucero

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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...

Harvesting Of Soy Beans Well Under Way

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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. ...

New Acquisition Villa Lucero

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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 ...

Uag Management Visits Rice Harvesting

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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 ...

New Machinery

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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 ...

Rice Ready For Harvesting

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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...

Update On Apicultural Activities

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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...

Spring Has Been Very Adequate For Pasture And Crop Development

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Friday, 15 January 2010

Crops look very healthy and are developing in good condition. We may expect very good possibilities of having good grain yields in both crops.High rainfall values and very warm temperatures ...

Soybean Has Been Seeded In San Francisco And Yaguarí

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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 ...

New Milking Cow Facility At Yaguari

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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 ...

New Year Celebration At José Ignacio

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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 ...

Heifers Were Inseminated With Australian Braford Embryos At Casco Patricio

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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 ...

November At La Verónica

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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 ...

New Qualified Staff In Our Team

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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 ...

The Best Embryos To Increase Profitability

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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 ...

Milking Holstein Cows Next Spring At Yaguari

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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, ...

Business Meeting At Yaguari

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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. ...

La Verónica Has Been Extended

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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 ...

El Tinto Acquisition

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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 ...

Rincón De La Pipa: Continuing Our Integration Strategy

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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 ...

Uag Purchases Large Grains Operation

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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 ...

A New Land Acquisition At The North Of The Country

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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 ...

La Veronica´s Wool Samples

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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 ...

The Apiculture Season Has Started

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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 ...

We Keep Working In The Eucalyptus Plantation

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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 ...

Plants In Good Shape

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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 ...

September Rainfalls

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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 ...

Uag Top Management Trip

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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 ...

Pruning In Process

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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 ...

Machinery Safety Courses

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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 ...

La Verónica Took Part In The 73rd Screen Auction

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Tuesday, 23 June 2009

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

La Verónica: Supplement Food For Calves

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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 ...

This Week Cows And Bulls Were Marked In La Verónica

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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 ...

We Keep On Training

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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 ...

La Verónica: Traceability And Cleaning Of The Oat Zone

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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 ...

Traceability At Casco Patricio

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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 ...

Our Beehives Grow And Improve

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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 ...

We Sowed La Verónica

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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 ...

Drought Effects Reverted

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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 ...

How We Fight Against The Drought?

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Thursday, 12 February 2009

11th february, 2009 Uruguay is going through a period without rain. This drought is having a negative effect on our lands and our animals. In spite of this, our team is ...

Uag In The Macquarie Bank Report

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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 ...

New Year's Eve Party In Casco Patricio

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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 ...

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