Sementes e Cabanha Butiá history started in 1950, with the patriarch of the family Pedro Bertagnolli, who was a pioneer in the cultivation of wheat in the region. The farm is located in Passo Fundo, in the fields of the high flat regions in Rio Grande do Sul, whose lands, before being cultivated, were covered with 'goat's beard', which is a typical plant of the region, and the fields were used for cattle raising, which was substituted by the monoculture of wheat in the 50's, soybean in the 70's and a diversity of crops in the 80's.
Today, the agro business and cattle raising Sementes e Cabanha Butiá cultivates a system of no-tillage and crop rotation, 2,200 hectares in the winter and 2,200 hectares in the summer, with corn, fodder and soybean seed, wheat and oat, selected lamb Suffolk, dairy jersey and crioulo horses.