About

Dr. Yuri Calil is an empirical economist specializing in the challenges facing agribusiness organizations. His research focuses on identifying tools and policies that help overcome these challenges within the agricultural sector. Serving as an Assistant Professor and Extension Specialist at Texas A&M University, he provides district leadership and coordinates education programs and applied research in his areas of expertise. His professional background includes work as an Assistant Professor of Economic and Financial Engineering at the Federal University of Itajubá in Brazil and experience as a consultant at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC). He has conducted research as a Visiting Scholar at the University of Chicago, the University of Manitoba, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. His academic training includes a MicroMaster from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and coursework at IMPA and Babson College. Dr. Calil holds a B.S. in Agribusiness and Agricultural Economics from the Federal University of Viçosa in Brazil, an M.S. in Applied Economics from the University of São Paulo, and a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Agribusiness from Texas A&M University.

Research topics

• Computer Science
• Business
• Economics
• Engineering
• Environmental economics
• Operations research
• Agroforestry
• Econometrics
• Agricultural economics
• Biology
• Geography
• Forestry
• Agricultural science
• Environmental science
• Transport engineering
• Ecology

Selected publications

• Evaluating the potential of AI & satellite imagery for mapping winter wheat crop in Armenia: A component of Agrotwin system

  SSRN Electronic Journal · 2025-01-01

  preprintOpen access
  PublisherDOI

• Economic Feasibility of Crop‐Livestock Integration System in Brazil

  Agribusiness · 2024 · 1 citations

  1st authorCorresponding
  • Agricultural economics
  • Agricultural science
  • Agroforestry

  ABSTRACT We investigate the economic feasibility of the Brazilian crop‐livestock integration system. Under this system, the Brazilian farmer can produce soybeans, corn, and graze for cattle on the same land during one crop year. This technology can substantially increase agricultural production in the country. We contrasted the stochastic net present value of traditional farming with the integrated system under four different scenarios. To rank the scenarios, we use stochastic dominance methods. The results suggest more significant economic gains for crop‐livestock integration scenarios.

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• A Sustainable Location Model of Transshipment Terminals Applied to the Expansion Strategies of the Soybean Intermodal Transport Network in the State of Mato Grosso, Brazil

  Sustainability · 2023 · 8 citations

  • Computer Science
  • Business
  • Transport engineering

  The transport system is one of the main bottlenecks of the world’s largest producer and exporter of soybeans, Brazil. Long-distance truck transportation of grains increases costs, food waste, and CO2 emissions. To handle these problems, the Brazilian government seeks to expand the transportation system through the national transport logistics plan (PNLT), promoting efficient operations. Collaborating on the environmental aspect, this paper proposes sustainable logistic infrastructure for soybean transportation. Investigating the largest grain-producing state in the world, Mato Grosso (Brazil), we show the optimal location for capacitated transshipment terminals untangling the relationship between logistics and sustainability. Besides handling cargo truck costs and CO2 emission, the optimization model considers cities, road distances, transshipment terminals existents, terminals capacities, implementing costs, and locations near waterways and railways. In five scenarios with different combinations of waterways and railways, we contrast the cost of installing terminals and the total road distance traveled under different weights for the environmental components. The results indicate that it is possible to simultaneously obtain the minimum cost of installing transshipment terminals and to reduce emissions by 20% in all analyzed scenarios. We conclude that obtaining strategic solutions at lower costs can be combined with proper environmental responsibility. As contributions, the results allow for advances in the area of sustainable logistics, encouraging the development of new research in Brazil involving the dimensions of sustainability. In addition, the study supports the government’s strategic decisions regarding ongoing discussions on expanding the intermodal soy transport network in the country.

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Estudo comparativo de custos e tempo das operações agrícolas manuais 2019-2020 e semimecanizadas 2020-2021 do café de montanha

  2022-01-01

  book-chapterOpen accessSenior author
  PublisherDOI

• Essays on Brazilian Agricultural Production and Policy

  OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries) · 2020-06-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  The first chapter shows how physical, morphological, genetic, and market factors affect the price of purebred Nellore sold at auctions in Brazil. We perform a hedonic analysis under a hierarchical model to document that visual scores and EPDs explain variations in prices. A morphological index bears higher premiums than a genetic index, while auction type and reputation explain variations in prices. The second chapter quantifies the possible effects of a European Union–Mercosur Free Trade Agreement on agricultural markets. We develop a gravity model of international trade in a general equilibrium framework to investigate the effects of the FTA on selected agricultural products: chicken, cattle, pig, cotton, soybean, wheat, and maize. The results show Mercosur countries (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay) increasing their agricultural exports, especially to Europe, but with relatively small welfare gains. The European countries may reduce their exports to their fellow countries, but with more considerable welfare gains, especially in the meat sector. The third chapter investigates the economic feasibility of the Brazilian crop-livestock integration system. Under this system, the Brazilian farmer can produce soybean, corn, and cattle in the same land during one crop-year. We contrasted the stochastic net present value of traditional farming with the integrated system under four different scenarios. The results suggest more significant economic gains for crop-livestock integration scenarios.

  Publisher

• EU–Mercosur Free Trade Agreement: Implications for Agriculture

  2020-01-01

  preprintOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  International Relations/Trade, Agricultural and Food Policy, International Development

  PublisherDOI

• Factors Affecting Pure-bred Nellore Prices Sold in Auctions in Brazil

  AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) · 2019-01-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Agricultural Finance, Agribusiness, Demand and Price Analysis, Farm Management

  PublisherDOI

• Brazil’s Agricultural Production and Its Potential as Global Food Supplier

  AgEcon Search (University of Minnesota, USA) · 2019-01-01 · 29 citations

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Brazil is a resource-rich country with abundant land, water, and technology to ensure its production growth. New agricultural frontiers, production technologies (e.g., crop–livestock integration), limited political intervention, private-sector investment in infrastructure improvements, and diversified agricultural production increase Brazil’s potential as a global food supplier in the future.

  PublisherDOI

• Should the Brazilian soybean producer use revenue insurance? A case study

  2018 Annual Meeting, February 2-6, 2018, Jacksonville, Florida · 2018-01-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Farm Management

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

• Agricultural Policy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Brazil

  2018 Annual Meeting, August 5-7, Washington, D.C. · 2018-01-01

  articleOpen access1st authorCorresponding

  Agricultural and Food Policy, Environmental Economics and Policy, International Relations/Trade

  PublisherOA PDFDOI

Frequent coauthors

• Luis A. Ribera

  Texas College

  9 shared

• Gustavo Rodrigues de Morais

  Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

  2 shared

• Carmine Paolo De Salvo

  Inter-American Development Bank

  1 shared

• Gabriel Faria de Oliveira

  Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

  1 shared

• Marina Pimenta Freitas

  1 shared

• Carlos Andrey Maia

  Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

  1 shared

• David E. Anderson

  The Ohio State University

  1 shared

• James Richardson

  University College Cork

  1 shared

Education

• Managerial Economics and Agribusiness , Agricultural Economics

  Texas A&M University

  2020

Awards & honors

• Tyrus R. Timm Honor Registry