Ana Ribeiro
Management
Good afternoon. We are here for our conference call for the earnings of BrasilAgro. We will be talking about nine months that ended on March 31st, representing Q3 of the year that ends on June 30. And I am here with our CEO, André Guillaumon; and our CFO, Gustavo Javier Lopez. And the announcements, if you wish to ask questions, please click on chat. If you want to send questions in writing, you can send through the platform. We are all connected. For those who are hearing us in English, the presentation is available in the chat in the English version. Once again, thank you for participating and I will pass the floor to André to begin to talk about what happened in this quarter. Thank you. Okay, André, you have the floor. André Guillaumon: Thank you, Ana. Good afternoon. Once again, a great pleasure to be with you and share with you this -- it’s always complex to understand an agro company every quarter. It’s good to see the whole year. But, yes, we have the quarterly calls. We will talk about what happened in the quarter, how the company is evolving in terms of operations, people development, all the points we have been talking about and to leave a lot of time for questions. So let’s go on to the first page. First nine months, net revenue, R$663 million, R$25 million in net profit, adjusted EBITDA, R$168 million, operational revenue in here the harvest, practically 100% of soybean in Brazil, we have some 203,000 tons in Brazil, Paraguay and Bolivia. And although it’s in the beginning of April, we did an important sale of farms, the remaining part of Araucária Farm and this when we show the numbers, you will see this in the annual numbers and this will certainly place the company having expressive excellent results. Going on to the next page, a little more color on this topic. Well, just a little more detail. Here, we have two sales. We sold the remaining part and I’d like to explain why such a great difference in price. One of these is a lower area with a lot of sand, which had sugarcane and you have also the areas that are mixed, intermediate and lower areas. So to try to monetize, we sold the remaining part of Araucária Farm. These two areas, the most expressive one is sale to. One is a lowland area, 300 bags in this low area, where you can use it for pasture or sugarcane, but you have more risk to produce grain. And the other area, there we have some areas that we calculated at 1,300 bags per hectare areas at 300. So the 790 is a mix of the 3,796 hectares. We had these three types of soil and it has a different price. We got to 790 bags per hectare of the total 1,600 were low lands. And the graph on the right, the first sale we show the recurring results, a transaction that a purchase that began in 2006 and we are divesting the last part in 2023 and during these 16 years, we had a return rate of almost 14% in the lowlands and 15% in the farm as a whole. So very expressive and shows the capacity we have to join operational results with sale of farms. Well, here on the right we have a summary. So we sell the farm in parts, and here, we can give you a vision of the whole thing. This farm was acquired in the past, as I said, I said 2006 -- actually was in 2007 -- April 2007. And this farm was acquired for approximately less than R$76 million. This includes CapEx and you -- all those who follow us know this, it was bought for R$76 million. So in our books, it’s at R$76 million acquisition value plus CapEx of transformation. So a small area was transformed. Most of the area was already transformed, but 1,068 hectares were transformed, they were upgraded and we made sales. We began to sell in May 2023, then a sale in June 2014, March 2017, May 2017 and May 2018, April 2023, the last Tuesday, April 2023. So in total, R$602 million. When we were talking about nominal value and we are talking about acquisition plus CapEx and this was a farm that generated cash -- positive cash during the years. So it’s not a simple calculation, R$602 million minus R$76 million, because we had many years of positive flow, which are reflected in the return rate. They are not reflected in total value generation, which is R$602 million to R$76 million. And this shows once again the capacity of our company to serve on times with good prices. The second sale and the first sale where sales, if you notice, we have in a certain way, put pressure and the great difficulty of Gustavo explaining, because last year was different from this year. We wanted to sell well, but also shorten the payment terms why? You know very well. We had a price of soybean that was very high and in the future we know prices of soybean are dropping. So we wanted to shorten the payment terms to capture the better prices in what we were paid and also receive the money in the short-term. Next slide. Here, we always tell you about investments where investor’s money is being placed, where we are taking the company and here we have some projects that are structural projects. So there are structural changes. The adoption of connectivity, what this can represent connectivity in the Brazilian GDP and we have to be part of this. We have connectivity projects being implemented in some units. A project that is a large operation. We are changing, we have an ERP, which supports the company SAP and we are substituting the vertical that supported the agricultural part. So this was implemented in many units. We have this pie chart showing the status of the projects, connectivity, the progress and also field monitoring. Infrastructure is something that we presented in the beginning of the year. We are building a seed production plant where -- this is focused on seeds for our own consumption, soybean seeds. No one thought of this because it represented a very small part of the cost and with biotechnology, the seeds now have a higher cost. So also corn which was already high. So once again the company focused on this. We were producing seeds in a simpler way. So now we are doing this professionally, modern plant for seed production and this will allow the company to have a lower cost for seeds with better standardization. Irrigation, we have focused a lot, especially in the state of Bahia in Sao Jose, we are spending a lot to increase the yields both in sugarcane in Sao Jose Farm. Also line pressurizing, more pivots that are arriving are being erected, assembled and also irrigation projects in the units in Bahia. In Arrojadinho and Rio do Meio these are projects that are making a lot of progress. And the last area, area transformation, three areas that were included in our portfolio. Panamby Farm part was planted, but very small due to the time when we received, when we prepared the team, they planted a small area and in the next harvest, it will be total operation, 5,000 -- almost 5,700 hectares. to farm state. They planted this year a smaller area and now in the next they will reach 100% of the farm. And Fazenda Sao Domingos, that we did not plan this year and this farm, as you remember, when we announced will be included in two steps, half this year, we should include 3,000 hectares and the rest in the next harvest. In total, in the company, another 15,000 hectares in production, 15,000 addition, 15,000 in the state of Mato Grosso. So just showing you those who are here for a longer time, see how much we suffered. We suffered this year too in two units in the state of Bahia and so we are preparing the company to have to be able to absorb in a better way the impacts and the diversity of crops and regions. The next slide, a lot of people here are better than us to evaluate this. Here we see the curve getting to 138. Here, the highlight, Gustavo will show the company’s numbers in this harvest. We are closing at R$150 million soybean and our budget was R$157 million and this is a medium- and long-term vision. Corn also a dropped. Cotton, we had a small improvement. Cattle raising, very well we have a great restriction in the consumption inside Brazil. This doesn’t help the price. Ethanol, good news, also we -- in ethanol and alcohol we have seen an improvement. So this shows the scenario of the commodities. The prices have dropped. On the next slide, there is a scenario of commodities dropping -- price dropping in the last harvest. It was the idea. We planted with a low cost and sold at a high price. Here, all of Brazil planted with high costs and those who sold very little, sold well and now the rest. For example, we sold a lot in soybean, but we are seeing in the next year a drop in prices. So the first graph. These peaks that you see, this was during the war, but we saw an increase with the effects, restrictions in imports. So we see the peak during the war, $1,325. Last year, this harvest that we are reporting the results was planted with $925 per ton and now we see a MAP around $580 per ton, $600 per ton. So I made a quick calculation if you consider not the peak $1,325, but if you look at what we bought $955 with the price today $580, you have savings of $375 per ton in cost. If we consider the MAP, we use 200 kilograms per hectare. We are talking about 375 times $0.275. If we consider also an exchange rate of R$5 to a dollar, savings in MAP or a reduction of R$380 in phosphate fertilizer, the drop in costs and you can make this calculation for the rest. On the right, we have the status of purchase of fertilizer. When we look at the bottom, we see the -- we see urea and chloride. A lot of what we will report, you will see as sugarcane had a great impact on us and sugarcane has a stronger impact, it has a greater volatility in cost. When we talk about soybean, we are talking about 190 kilograms of MAP. In sugarcane, it’s more than 500 kilograms per hectare, 600 kilograms per hectare. So the impact of fertilizer on sugarcane. Cotton too, same thing in cotton. The impact is even higher than soybean. So sugarcane, cotton and corn greater -- there’s a greater impact from fertilizers. So this drop will be expressive for these three products that I mentioned, the cost reduction. The graph on the right, here we see the status of purchase. We have advanced in our purchases when we -- so we have -- we bought little, we closed some, but the others we waited. We have accessors that give us information about fertilizer. There are people looking at this all the time and we knew that this would happen. The drop in costs. So we started to buy a little and we sold soybean and we bought chloride. The graph at the bottom on the right, just to illustrate, brings us the exchange between a ton of fertilizer MAP, urea with the bags of soybean. Here, I believe we should use nitrogenated for sugarcane. But using MAP in chloride, we had a historical relationship of 13.50 and today we have 19 bags per ton of MAP, and here, we have 11. So it’s still a little higher this exchange, but there was an expressive recovery in terms of fertilizer per bags of product due to the drop in the price of fertilizers. Here on the next, we -- many people know our day-to-day work. We are in Q3, everything planted, harvest, 97% harvested in the case of soybean, 6% of corn. Most of our corn, we -- so corn is harvested after soybean and also we have the winter crop for corn. In the case of beans, 100% harvested, and in the case of cotton zero percent. We should begin to harvest cotton now at the end of May, beginning of June in the units in Bahia and a little later in Mato Grosso. So this is the situation. At the bottom here, we see productivity in brown. Here, we see 7% -- minus 7% in soybean versus estimate and here I’d like to explain this minus 7%. First reduction in the area and also in productivity. These are farms that we sold and we did not plant in them and also less leasing in this volume. And everyone knows, we had two operational units in Bahia, Chaparral Farm and Arrojadinho, an expressive reduction in productivity in relation to last year due to the summer of 35 days. And other units produced more. So in general, a drop of 7%. Part of this from reduction in the area due to sell of farms and also less -- also lower productivity in Maranhao, almost 75 bags of productivity, very productive. And in the case of Bahia with this drought 40 bags per hectare. So farms that last year produced 65 bags, 67 bags. So Arrojadinho produced 67 bags. This year we closed, we estimate at 40 bags, 41 bags, a drop due to the drought, an expressive drop in these two units. But I believe this shows we were more dependent on Bahia than today, even with an expressive reduction in these two units. When we look at the whole company, we have a drop of 4%. When we exclude the areas that were not planted due to the sale of farms, then it’s 4%. Now derivatives and how we are working on this, harvest 2022-2023 almost closed, very little to sell. Harvest 2022-2023, we have parts sold, 12% of the harvest sold at an exchange rate of R$5.73 per dollar and in the harvest now, we will have an exchange rate of R$5.38 to $1. In the past, it was higher, R$5.52 to $1. Now the -- our currency in Brazil appreciated and now it’s lower. Chicago, on average we sold at 14.62 and what we are selling for next year 13.50 -- 13.5, on the last line, a very important part, which is receivables from farms. We monitor this in the P&L. When we look at total production plus receivables, we have 28% receivables, 11% production sold. So we have an expressive -- we have a good sales volume and receivables 13.78. So corn we have and we sold very little, hedge is small. We had positive results. We have a buffer to go to the market and get better prices. Cotton, we are finalizing also selling, especially due to the reduction in Chaparral Farm and I apologize we didn’t put here as sold, because it’s not sold in New York, but we have sales of cotton. We sold practically 25% of physical in the case of cotton, but we have 515. This represents 1,000 points on. We made some transactions of barter with inputs for the next harvest and it’s not only -- this barter operation is not only inputs for cotton only we have sold 2023-2024. So ethanol, we have begun to sell. In the last months, we saw an increase in the price of ethanol. So we are selling ethanol. And in the last line, receivables from farms, we have 2023, 100% sold, this was sold at Chicago 14.10 and 2024, 30% sold at an exchange rate of R$5.69 to $1. Well, Gustavo, you have the floor. These numbers will help you a lot to explain things.