Family Builds $900 Million Brazil Farming Empire After 935% Gain
The Logemanns’ SLC Agricola controls 1.7 million acres of planted land in Brazil and traces its origins to a German immigrant who arrived more than a century ago.
Combines harvesting cotton on a SLC Agricola farm.
Photographer: Lourenço Furtado/SLC Agricola
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Early bets on Brazil’s agricultural promise have made a third-generation family of German immigrants ultra-wealthy as land values surge and technology drives ever greater gains on crop yields.
The Logemann family, headed by 72-year-old Eduardo Logemann, own 53% of SLC Agricola SA, which counts London hedge fund manager Crispin Odey as its biggest private shareholder.