Massive investments: the country's largest pork empire with 13,000 mothers

Lisandro Culasso and Fernando Villavicencio produced pigs and noticed that "on our own it is difficult to grow, to scale. So we joined forces to develop more quickly and efficiently," says Culasso. This is how Isowean SA was born. "We are serial partners," he commented. In 2012, the Grassi family, owners of a cereal trading group, joined them. Focused on strengthening production and organizational processes and improving the quality of their products, the farm is exclusively dedicated to the production of piglets, which are weaned and sent to associated third-party establishments for fattening. They now have 13,000 mothers and are working towards an expansion that will allow them to reach 17,000, according to La Nación. The company provides piglets to the 12 associated producers within a radius of about 200 kilometers around, in the provinces of Córdoba and Santa Fe. Monthly, the contributions of the parties are calculated and the result of the sales is distributed. That is, they ...