C.Vale is an agro-industrial cooperative operating in Paraná, Santa Catarina, Mato Grosso, Mato Grosso do Sul, Rio Grande do Sul and Paraguay. It has 179 business units, more than 24,000 associates and more than 12,000 employees. It stands out in the production of soy, corn, wheat, cassava, milk, chicken, fish and swine, and operates in the provision of services, with more than 260 professionals who provide agronomic and veterinary assistance to associates. To keep the cooperative members technologically updated, C.Vale develops courses, lectures, training and field days.

C.Vale also finances production, guaranteeing credit to cooperative members, especially small producers. The company sells inputs, parts, accessories and resells agricultural machinery, ensuring more competitive prices for its associates. It also produces soybean seed in Santa Catarina, which is sold throughout Brazil. In addition, the cooperative maintains a supermarket chain with eight stores in Paraná, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul.

In the industrial segment, C.Vale produces modified cassava starch and animal feed. In this same segment, the cooperative maintains a poultry complex with a slaughtering capacity of 600,000 chickens/day. It is the first Brazilian poultry integration system, on a commercial scale, to use automated processes to control the environment.

The lack of places to store the production, the difficulties in the flow of the crop and the lack of credit and technical assistance led a group of 24 farmers to found, on November 7, 1963, the Cooperativa Agrícola Mista de Palotina Ltda (Campal) . In 1969, the cooperative’s activities began effectively with the receipt of wheat in the warehouse of a mill in Palotina. In 1970, construction began on the cooperative’s first warehouse, which was ready at the beginning of the following year.