Our Story
It all started in 1940 when Miguel and Elvia López López acquired Balsora, the farm. As the first generation owners, they started the business with cattle raising purposes. Later on, in 1960, they began growing semestral crops such as soybean, sorghum, and corn.
Miguel López & Elivia López
Guido, Miguel’s son, worked along with Miguel his entire life learning and helping his father on the farms growing semestral crops. Additionally, Guido and his wife Maria Cristina bought their farm, Egipto, and worked in cattle raising. Due to health complications, Guido passed away in 1981.
Guido López López
& Maria Cristina Ochoa
After her husband past away, Maria took over the farm and sent off her three kids to study abroad to the United States. From 1981 to 1991, she would go to the fields and drive the tractors, take a shovel in her hands and work the field alongside the farm employees. She not only kept the business running but became an entrepreneur in the construction industry. Together with her children, in 1992 they decided to change once again the future of the farm, and the third generation took over the business choosing to grow sugar cane.
Maria Cristina Ochoa de López
Alejandra, Guido Mauricio & Maria Antonieta López Ochoa
Once the third generation finished their studies in The United States, the three of them took over the family farm, Balsora, in 1992. Since then, they have worked together, turning the family farm into a sustainable family business recognized nationally and internationally for engaging in new developments and sustainable practices. Their dream of having a farm that is friendly with the environment and surrounding communities with higher yields and lower costs has become real. Today, the business is evolving into the consulting area.
Together the second and third generations have grown, learned, and changed. They opened their wings, adopting best practices from around the world, and sharing their business practices as well. Now as organic certified, their new objective has become to work towards a regenerative self-sufficient farm and pass it on to the next generation who lives abroad.
Daniela and Camilo, siblings and children of Maria Antonieta López, are the future (4th) generation, the ones in charge of taking a history of success and family forward.
And a story that will continue….
