Mauricio
Martínez Díaz
I work alongside rice growers through the whole cycle: from tillage to harvest, and from the field to the mill. Agronomic advice in the field and at the plant: intake, drying and storage.
“Be in the field when it counts.”
An agronomist from eastern Uruguay, raised among rice paddies.
I started at a rice mill's seed nursery, moved on to seed production, then to the field and the technical follow-up of many growers' crops, and ended up running the whole industrial plant. I know rice end to end: what happens in the field and what happens afterwards at the mill.
Since 2023 I work independently with growers in Treinta y Tres, Rocha and the rest of eastern Uruguay. The idea is simple: the grower has someone at their side for every decision of the season, and that decision gets written down.
Integrated advisory: the field, the seed and the mill, with one mindset.
Rice only, for now. Maize and pastures will come later, once rice is well looked after.
- Tillering+19 d
- Panicle initiation+65 d
- Flowering+114 d
- Maturity+167 d
Crop follow-up
Structured field visits: establishment, weeds, crop condition and water. Every visit is recorded with photo, date and what was decided.
Varieties and growth stages
Variety and sowing date, and growth stages computed from emergence with INIA data, to reach every management step on time.
Soil and fertilization
From the soil analysis to a per-hectare recommendation with costs, in a PDF you can understand and take to your supplier.
Prescriptions and Ministry plans
Registered with the MGAP to sign application prescriptions and soil and water use plans.
Seed
Seed production and conditioning, laboratory and certification. Technician registered with INASE.
Industry
Agronomic advice at processing plants: rice intake, drying and storage, quality and export plant approval. To make field decisions with the mill in mind.
From the seed nursery to industrial management, and back to the field.
Ten years at a cooperative rice mill in eastern Uruguay, at every end of the process. That is what lets me look at a paddy and know what will happen to that grain.
Technical sales advisor
2024 – presentTechnical and commercial advice to growers, alongside the crop follow-up work.
Independent rice crop advisor
July 2023 – presentTechnical follow-up of rice farms for several growers, 5,500 to 6,000 hectares. In 2023–2024, also advisor to a grower farming 1,200 ha of rice and 1,000 ha of soybean with an on-farm plant.
Industrial Manager
2021 – 2023Responsible for the plant's industrial process, leading around 200 people: paddy intake, drying and storage during harvest, mill planning, hulling, polishing and packaging, quality laboratory, feed plant, rice cake factory and seed plant.
Agronomist, Agricultural Technical Department
2013 – 2021Full-cycle follow-up of the growers supplying the mill: tillage, sowing, varieties and seeding rate, herbicides, fertilization, crop protection, irrigation and harvest. In charge of the seed plant and its laboratory.
Soybean and sorghum harvest supervisor
2010Harvest equipment, moisture measurement and logistics coordination during the season.
Your field notebook, with reminders built in.
My growers carry their paddies on their phone: what was done, what is due now and what comes next. It works without signal and syncs when it gets it back.
- Your farms and paddies on the map, each with its current growth stage.
- Alerts when a management step, a critical period or a frost is coming.
- Application prescriptions ready to send to the pilot, and marked when done.
- Farm weather: rain, temperature and sunshine, past days and the days ahead.
Sign in
If you are a grower, sign in with your phone number and the PIN I gave you.
Sign in as a growerShall we talk about your paddies?
Write or call. I am out in the field most days, so if I don't pick up, I will call you back in the afternoon.