Megaconfinamento launches Biofertilizantes Conforto brand

One of Brazil's largest cattle feedlot groups, Megaconfinamento Conforto, has announced its entry into the biological fertilizer market with the launch of the Biofertilizantes Conforto brand. 

The company owns a herd of more than 70,000 cattle, integrating a conglomerate with revenue exceeding R$1 billion. 

Biofertilizantes Conforto will produce mineral fertilizers from livestock residues. According to Conforto's CEO, Sérgio Pellizzer, the company's major differential is "the quantity of nutrients in the soil and the high productivity due to so many years of using this biological material."

For the past 15 years, the company has been producing 100,000 tons annually for its consumption on more than 5,500 hectares of corn planted on the property or exchanged for grains with neighboring producers. Now, the plan for the new brand is to increase fertilizer production capacity by up to 50%.

Pellizzer emphasized that Megaconfinamento Conforto had taken several actions in recent years to create this new business. Among these was the construction of a new area to operate above 200,000 animals per year. Additionally, the company built three new silos, expanding grain storage capacity by one million sacks of corn. Finally, it invested BRL5 million in the feed factory.

More directly related to biofertilizer production, the company invested nearly BRL30 million to implement a system that allowed for the extraction of cleaner manure to send to the industrial process. In the fertilizer factory itself, the company applied another BRL12 million for new screening equipment.

According to Conforto's CEO, the static capacity of the feedlot could even triple, keeping pace with market growth. In recent times, the transformation of manure into biological fertilizers has become a promising business.

Pellizzer stated that in addition to the financial advantage, the production of biofertilizers also reflected an environmental concern with residues from cattle feedlots. To form Biofertilizantes Conforto, the executive also sought to partner with IFB, a company specializing in enriching fertilizer with bionutrients through an exclusive enzyme inoculation process.

Pellizer said in conclusion that he had the conditions to make different formulations, serve various markets, and achieve a high value-added product: "This is a dream that, no matter how distant it may be, we are focused on performing it more and more."

This development highlighted a key point about Brazil's agricultural sector: This development could influence the broader agricultural sector in Brazil, encouraging other livestock operations to consider similar value-added opportunities and promoting more sustainable practices in the industry.

(Editing by Leonardo Gottems, reporter for AgroPages)