Who it serves
Buyers of agricultural output and processing and distribution chains.
How the business works
Production combines land, inputs and labour over biological cycles. Sales depend on yields and realised prices; cash collection and investment often occur at different times.
What drives this activity
Weather, yields, commodity prices, inputs and logistics.
The business in practice
Selected products, companies and assets from corporate publications.
- Grain, sugar cane and livestock
Cresud presents grain, sugar-cane and livestock production alongside land purchases and sales. Farming creates goods for sale over production cycles; farmland transactions are a different type of operation.
Cresud · agricultural activitiesConsulted
- Improving land and rotating the portfolio
The strategy combines productivity improvements and farming technology with land-market assessment. Cresud reviews productivity, feasibility and disposal opportunities when rotating farms. A successful harvest and a land sale are different outcomes that need not occur in the same period.
Cresud · business strategyConsulted
Its place in Cresud
Cresud connects agricultural production, land development and real estate investments. Its interest in IRSA adds exposure to urban property, so a single farming season does not explain the whole company.
Economics of the whole company
Business economics · explained by La Plata
Customers, operations & revenue
Cresud combines farming with farmland development and property interests, including IRSA. Farming earns seasonal production revenue; improving and selling land realises asset value. Property investments introduce rents, projects and valuations whose economics differ from crop yields.
What shapes business performance
Weather, yields and crop prices need to be read alongside seasonal costs. Farmland sales are intermittent rather than recurring production. Group analysis separates farming, asset changes and investees, avoiding double-counting the same business when comparing Cresud with IRSA.
