Considerations on the effect on productivity and performance of producers of grain on the application of the model of agricultural business and public policy

Abstract

The term agribusiness is associated with the installation of a new paradigm of exploitation in grain production. It was stated that the new paradigm a new innovative farmer supplant the old and limited knowledge of producers. From the analysis of economic developments in production costs, marketing costs, yields and gross production of wheat and soybeans between 1991 and the present margins, we pretend to make a contribution to quantitatively describe the evolution ofinvestment and profitability both crops and highlight the influence of public policies on profitability, aspects that allow us to reflect in particular on the reasons for the disappearance of thousands of farms in recent decades. Statistical analysis indicated andthe advancement grade of the practices of contracts in grain production allow relativizing and question the statements indicated that the new paradigm became explosively productive and profitabe in grain production, increase knowledge of producers and theinadequacy of that transformation caused the disappearance of thousands of farms in recent decades.