Mission
Produce Paraguayan beef with demonstrable efficiency
Turn grass into kilos at the lowest possible cost, caring for the soil, the water and the health of the herd. Every management decision is made with weighing data, not impressions.
About us
Cattle ranching that can be audited.
Campo & Hacienda is born of a simple conviction: in a country where the herd is shrinking, the one who measures wins. We develop our own cattle operations and manage third-party ranches under the same commitment: someone answers for your ranch every month, with individual records, a firm health plan and end-to-end traceability.
01Purpose
Mission and vision
Vision
To be the benchmark for auditable cattle ranching in Paraguay
So that an investor, a meat-packing plant or an overseas buyer can request an animal's history and receive it in full: origin, animal health, weighings and destination.
A herd that can be audited animal by animal is a herd that can be financed.
How we think about the land
Pasture is the asset. The ear tag is the method.
Before it is a business plan, every ranch is a photosynthesis equation: grass turning into kilos. We look after that conversion before any other figure, because a depleted soil is not fixed by a well-written report.
We measure it with the only thing that doesn't lie: individual records. Every animal with its number, its history and its place in the paddock — not as paperwork formality, but as the way this company understands the land. And that way of thinking demands being there: at the chute, at breeding, on the rounds, not only in the end-of-month report.
03Principles
Five commitments that are non-negotiable
These are not brochure values. They are the rules by which decisions are made in the corral when no one is watching.
IRecord
No animal without identification
The animal that enters the ranch enters the system. Without an ear tag and without a registration entry, it isn't bought.
IIHealth
The health calendar rules
Vaccination and deworming according to the official calendar, with intake quarantine for every new lot. Animal health is not postponed for the sake of cash flow.
IIIPasture
The pasture rests
Stocking rate adjusted by paddock and rest periods respected. Overstocking pays for one year and costs you five.
IVWelfare
Calm handling
Droving without shouting or blows, facilities that don't injure, and shade and water available. Stress is paid for in kilos lost.
VAccounts
The numbers are shown in full
Mortality, kilos lost and cycles that turned out worse than expected are also reported. A report that brings only good news is not a report.
04Method
Herd records: this is how it's done here
It's not a cover slogan. It's the system by which every decision in the field is made: if it's not in the record, as far as we're concerned it didn't happen.
Identification
Every animal, with its number and its history
Registered with an ear tag on intake, category, animal health applied, weighings and movements are kept in a record of its own. When you ask about a specific animal, the answer isn't "I think so" — it's a record.
Reporting
A monthly report that closes the account
Opening stock plus additions, minus removals, equals closing stock. The formula is published every month in the report, with the difference explained when it doesn't tie out to the kilo.
See the month-to-month controlRecords
Initial and final condition, signed off
When taking over a ranch, a report records the cattle, the infrastructure and the pastures as they stand. When the contract ends, the same report closes the exercise: what came in against what remains.
Look for a client's name on this site. You won't find one. It's the same discretion yours would get.
It's not that we lack cases to show: it's a company policy. Every ranch we manage stays under the same discretion, whatever it's worth and wherever it is. Selling off someone else's showcase isn't a shortcut we take here.
What we sign
A confidentiality clause in every management contract, without exception and with no expiration on the closing signature.
Who sees your ranch
The owner, whoever they authorize, and the team that operates there directly. Within the company, no one accesses it without a need to.
What happens when it ends
The complete herd and establishment record is handed over to the owner and removed from our active systems.
Why there are no logos here
Showing off a client to sell the service betrays what was promised to that client. We'd rather lose the showcase than break our word.
05Where
The zones we know
A rancher rules out from the start anyone who doesn't know their zone, and rightly so: the dry Chaco isn't managed like the east of the Región Oriental (Eastern Region). Not in stocking rate, not in pasture, not in water. These are the four we work in, with what each one yields.
Región Occidental
Bajo Chaco
Low-lying soils with a risk of flooding and natural grassland of low carrying capacity. Sown pasture, generally Pangola, multiplies production three- or fourfold. Water and paddock layout define the result.
- Natural grassland
- 30 kg/ha/year
- With pasture
- 100–120 kg/ha/year
Región Occidental
Central Chaco
Natural grassland yields little, but it is where sown pasture shows the most: with well-managed Gatton panic, production multiplies more than tenfold. A breeding zone par excellence, with water as the real limit.
- Natural grassland
- 15 kg/ha/year
- With pasture
- 180–200 kg/ha/year
Región Occidental
Alto Chaco
Drier and more extreme, with bush encroachment as a permanent threat to the pasture. It demands conservative stocking-rate management and sustained bush control so as not to lose usable land year after year.
- Natural grassland
- 30 kg/ha/year
- With pasture
- 180–200 kg/ha/year
Región Oriental
Región Oriental (Eastern Region)
A better rainfall regime and smaller ranches, with Brachiaria and Brizantha as the forage base. A natural zone for fattening and finishing, close to the export meat-packing plants.
- Natural grassland
- 20–35 kg/ha/year
- With pasture
- 120–180 kg/ha/year
The ranges are reference figures from the Asociación Rural del Paraguay. If your ranch is in a zone where we have no direct experience, we tell you so and don't take the job: we would rather lose a contract than learn at your expense. Calculate what your ranch could yield.
06Framework
Standards and framework: we don't improvise the rules
These are the external references that set the floor for every ranch we manage. We didn't invent them, and that's exactly why they aren't negotiable with the client either.
Animal health
SENACSA's official calendar
Vaccination, deworming, movement permits and updating the inventory record, as required by the National Animal Health and Quality Service. It's not an aspirational minimum: it's the baseline for every ranch we touch.
Management
Asociación Rural del Paraguay references
Stocking rate and carrying capacity by zone, good handling and welfare practices. When a ranch asks for more than its pasture can bear, we say so even when the answer is unwelcome.
Legal framework
Documentation and tax regime in order
Movement permits, procedures with SENACSA and the establishment's tax obligations, organized and up to date. None of this is put off until month's end.
See the full legal framework
07Sustainability
Produce today without wearing out tomorrow's ranch
The 9% drop in the national herd between 2020 and 2025 is not reversed with more hectares: it is reversed with better management per hectare. That is where we put the effort.
Soil
Rotation with measured rest
Grazing strips with short occupation times and long rest periods, so the pasture regrows with reserves and the soil is not degraded.
Water and shade
Watering points and standing bush
Distribution of drinking troughs to shorten walking distances and conservation of shade bush within the paddocks. Less walking, more weight gain.
Traceability
Aligned with the export standard
Individual records compatible with the traceability requirements demanded by the markets that today pay best for Paraguayan beef.
08Difference
What sets us apart, in concrete terms
These aren't adjectives. They're five specific things you can verify before signing, not after.
01Contract
Reporting on what was signed, not on what was promised
The standard of reporting, control and transparency is written into the management contract. It doesn't depend on this month's mood or on who happens to be handling your case.
02Chute
Someone of ours at the chute, not on the phone
Breeding season, branding, weaning, vaccination and shipping: the jobs that define the year are done with a real presence, not with instructions from a distance.
03Money
Cattle sales go into your account
The money from marketing goes into an account of the owner or of the establishment's company. Never into an account of ours.
04Audit
External audit whenever you want
You can contract an independent verification of the herd without needing to take management away from us. The report is yours, not ours.
05Discretion
Your ranch, out of the showcase
No client becomes a case study or a logo in a presentation. What we manage, we also protect from other people's view.
Get to know us up close
We'll take you to the ranch.
We arrange visits for investors and producers who want to see the operation before deciding.