Mauricio Garcia

Mauricio Garcia is a fourth-generation farmer/rancher from south Texas. He works as a grain merchandiser for Garcia Grain Trading, a family grain handling and export business that includes 3,000 acres of soybeans, corn, milo, cotton and vegetables. The company is actively engaged in a soybean improvement program for Texas farmers, and is getting ready to commercialize a variety that works for the Rio Grande Valley. In addition, they operate six grain elevators that export 500,000 metric tons, or about 20,000,000 bushels, of soybeans, rice, sunflower, canola, sesame and dry-edible beans to Mexico. They are the largest exporter of Texas soybeans into Mexico, and one of the largest exporters of pinto and black edible beans to Mexico. Mauricio holds an economics degree from University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. He is passionate about farming best practices, agronomy, merchandising, and learning from other farmers and people in the ag industry.