Two American experts think that Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry represents the future of China's cattle industry, but in fact, Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry is just moving forward with a heavy load!

This is manifested in the fact that after Qi Zheng returned to China, he brought back the news that Jiagu American Branch had the strength to continue to expand the forage business, which made Li Dongliang of Jiagu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry breathe a sigh of relief.

"The stall is too big, and now we are really under a lot of pressure. Li Dongliang laughed at himself.

Qi Zheng knew that he was talking about the beef cattle breeding business, so it would not be easy for Li Dongliang, who had experienced the crazy construction of "10,000 head ranches" and the expansion of pig breeding against the trend, it must be under a lot of pressure.

"We are facing an unprecedented crisis in the beef cattle industry!" Li Dongliang knew that Qi Zheng had just returned to China and had not yet seen the latest research report on the beef cattle industry from the Ministry of Information, so he reported to him directly.

Qi Zhengyi raised his eyebrows, if he is not mistaken, among this year's price increases, the price of beef in meat has risen the most, is it possible that there is something related to this?

Li Dongliang confirmed his thoughts: "In fact, since 2008, the price of beef has been rising at an accelerated pace. The main reason is that beef consumption is becoming more and more popular, but the increase in demand has not been accompanied by an increase in farming. ”

For example, he said: "For example, the city of Heze, where we are located, is a big cattle city in Lu Province. However, in recent years, beef prices have continued to rise, but farmers' profits have been decreasing, and farmers have continued to withdraw from beef cattle farming. ”

"A free-range farmer raises a cow at home, sells it for more than a year, and makes a profit of less than 5 yuan a day, but now he goes out to do odd jobs and earns more than 100 yuan a day. ”

Therefore, the price of beef in the consumer market is rising, but beef cattle farmers are exiting due to meager profits, which makes people have to ask, what happened to our "bull market"?

Li Dongliang explained: "Although the price of beef is rising, the cost of raising cattle is also increasing, first of all, feed, and now in order to pursue the growth rate and the quality of meat, the amount of concentrate feed has increased significantly, and the quality of grass in roughage has also improved significantly." In the end, the cost of feeding cattle alone accounts for 70% to 80% of the total cost. Therefore, the enthusiasm of farmers to fill the fence is not high, and the number of beef cattle will further decline. ”

Half of the forage on Jiagu beef cattle farms needs to be imported from the United States, so it is no wonder that he attaches great importance to the convenience of Jiagu America's "subsidy" of forage for the benefit of the organic food industry, which undoubtedly relieves him of a heavy burden on his shoulders.

After all, Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry need to invest heavily in beef cattle breeding.

He sighed: "At present, the domestic beef cattle industry can be described as disconnected from the upstream and downstream. There are still very few companies that invest in beef cattle breeding, and most of the investment still goes to beef cattle fattening and slaughtering and processing – everyone 'just wants to pick the fruit, not plant the trees'. ”

At present, domestic enterprises involved in beef cattle breeding start from the purchase of shelf cattle for fattening, and do not involve the upstream cow and calf breeding links, but the question is, as the industrial base of the cow herd is decreasing, where does this cattle come from?

After Qi Zheng listened, he was also speechless.

He understands the lack of interest in beef cattle breeding. Cows can only give birth to one calf per litter, and the growth cycle is long, it takes ten months from pregnancy to farrowing, and another eleven months for the calf to grow into a shelf cow.

However, if you only buy shelf cattle for fattening, you can go public in four months.

——Not everyone can dare to deposit a large amount of money in the beef cattle breeding link like Jiagu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry.

But Qi Zheng was still a little disappointed, in the final analysis, he was still too short-sighted.

On the other hand, in terms of output value, the ranking of the four major livestock and poultry industries is pigs, beef cattle, poultry and dairy cows. However, compared with the large number of support and subsidy policies for the development of the pig and dairy industries, the development of the beef cattle industry has not paid attention to it, and no substantive support and subsidy policies have been introduced so far.

Taking pigs as an example, the central government has continuously increased its support for the development of pig production, and involves subsidies for breeding sows, insurance for breeding sows, subsidies for epidemic prevention, subsidies for improved pig breeds, incentives for transferring pigs out of large counties, and supporting the construction of infrastructure for standardized farms.

-- Jiagu's pig business can reduce its costs by at least 15% per year by obtaining state subsidies. According to the scale of pig breeding in Jiagu Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, this figure is calculated in billions.

However, in beef cattle breeding, the subsidies that Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry can get are mainly reflected in two aspects: one is to adopt the method of "building first and then supplementing" in the construction of cattle farms, with a subsidy of about 500,000 to 600,000 yuan;

——Such a subsidy is not even a clear soup with less than 2 billion yuan of investment in Jiagu.

But can the state be blamed?

Apparently not!

This is the same as the strategic idea of giving up soybeans to protect the staple food, in the case of limited resources to feed agriculture and animal husbandry, focusing on the high-yield pig industry, which can obviously better ensure the national demand for meat.

Qi Zheng believes that with the need to change China's dietary structure, the state will definitely adjust the animal husbandry structure and give key policy preferences to the beef cattle industry. But I'm afraid that the situation will be even worse by then.

Because, now there are already clues.

"The Ministry of Information's investigation found that in the context of the shrinking beef cattle industry, imported beef, especially smuggled beef, is taking advantage of the situation and gradually occupying the domestic market, and the domestic beef cattle industry will be further impacted......," Li Dongliang said seriously.

Beef cattle farming overseas is more efficient and less costly, which makes smuggling beef profitable.

The most important thing is that "smuggled beef does not pass the customs quarantine, which is likely to bring foot-and-mouth disease, mad cow disease and other epidemics into the country, which is a great hidden danger to the safety of the domestic beef cattle industry." ”

What could be more unpleasant than robbing us of the market and bringing us potential safety hazards?

After all, it is necessary to improve yourself!

And in this process, someone has to pay, and there is no one more suitable to pay than Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry.

Just as Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry in the breeding of high-yield dairy cows, just like Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry in pig breeding, just as the Ministry of agriculture in the promotion of Jiagu Holstein dairy cows in the promotion of fine breeds of Holstein cows in the Jiagu said: "Don't ask how much the government subsidizes Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry, but look at how much Jiagu agriculture and animal husbandry has paid for the progress of the industry......"

"We have built 15 beef cattle breeding bases in the four major beef cattle belt planning areas, with a herd of more than 200,000 cows...... and the most surprising thing is that there has been a breakthrough in the improvement of beef cattle breeds, which has improved the production capacity, feed conversion rate and commodity rate of individual beef cattle," Li Dongliang couldn't help but smile.

Qi Zheng smiled knowingly.

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When the "Nine Turns Nirvana Array" encounters beef cattle fed with Chinese herbs such as malt, hawthorn, tangerine peel, and green peel, the appetite increases and the feed conversion rate increases......

——The advantage of being successfully mutagenized by the "Nine Turns Nirvana Array" is that this is not a one-shot deal, but a stable genetic gene will be formed.

But Davis and Jeffrey didn't know that they could only marvel at the miraculous effects of Chinese herbal medicine and learn more about the applications with great interest.

"Are the two American experts still adapting to the working environment?" Qi Zheng asked casually.

Li Dongliang showed a strange smile: "Don't you just adapt? I think they can't get sick." ”

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