Butiá, along with 39 seed producers of RS, is the founder of the pro-Seeds Foundation, which has the objective to promote, spread an enlarge the technological knowledge directed to cattle breeding, as well as the cooperation with the researching and teaching institutions in developing new soybean, wheat and oat cultivars.

Sementes e Cabanha Butia has also been associated to COODETEC since 2003. This Central Cooperative of Agricultural Research was founded in 1995 by the Cooperative Organization of Parana State, with the aim of helping the associates in the area of cattle breeding, generation and technology.