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Minnesota Farmer living in Goiânia, Brazil

 
 

Kory Melby (38) was born and raised in a small farming community in northwest Minnesota. Kory graduated from Greenbush High School and continued his education at the University of Minnesota, Crookston campus. He majored in Farm Management and Ag Aviation. Kory has been actively involved with production agriculture for 20 years. Kory's first visit to Brazil was in 1994 with a group of producers from Minnesota and North Dakota. Kory became fascinated in Brazil again in the late 1990s when the American Ag media highlighted the aggressive soybean expansion in Mato Grosso. 

In January 2001 Kory joined a group of progressive producers and businessmen on a tour of Mato Grosso. Once Kory grasped the magnitude of the global competition facing him, he decided to make some structural changes in his family's farming operation. In the following years Kory returned to Brazil eight times to research opportunities in the agricultural sector. Kory now lives with his wife and son in the city of Goiânia, Goiás Brazil. 

The past four years have been spent researching land and business opportunities within Brazil. Kory has traveled throughout the country gaining knowledge and experience in numerous different venues. The most important aspect for doing business within Brazil is the social connection. Kory has spent countless hours developing relationships inside of Brazil.  

The state of Mato Grosso is my area of expertise. However with contacts in Bahia, Tocantins, Sao Paulo and Paraná, I feel very comfortable discussing the conditions in each of the aforementioned states. Kory does consulting for various hedge funds and private equity groups. Kory has also organized and hosted numerous tours through Brazil and Argentina. The tours have ranged from VIP infrastructure tours to curious producers from USA and Canada. Kory has also assisted journalists from Minneapolis Star Tribune, Wisconsin State Journal, Forth Worth Star Telegram and Virginia Quarterly. Kory also provides soybean industry analysis for the Red River Farm Network and Financial Times London. 

Kory's comment: 

“I know I have done my job when I say goodbye to a group at the airport and they have tears in their eyes telling me they don't want to go home.”

 

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