Chapter 614: "Bean" Fight (I)
Before the sugarcane grows, the soybean harvest is the first, and the sugarcane farmers in Gui Province are happy to bloom.
Although it is busy and tiring to manually harvest and bundle high-quality soybeans planted in the sugarcane fields, for many sugarcane farmers, this year is the best year during the sugarcane growing season. In the main sugarcane producing areas of Gui Province, there are laughter and praise from sugarcane farmers everywhere you go.
In Chongzuo City, the main sugarcane producing area, there is a similar but completely different excitement of the sugarcane crushing season in previous years.
Local grain companies and foreign grain companies are gearing up to enter the market with money, seeking to buy soybeans.
It was in this context that Song Liancheng joined the "bean war" in Chongzuo City.
Song Liancheng is an employee of a grain trader. Since June, he has been sent to Gui Province, and the company has given him only one task - "grabbing beans".
In Chongzuo City, he saw notices posted at the doors of many grain depots, which read: A large number of early-maturing soybeans were purchased, 2.15 yuan per catty of the city, and the moisture was 13.5%.
Song Liancheng sneered, just like that, you still want to "grab beans"? What are you kidding?
For grain companies, there is benefit when there is food. In the grain harvest season, Song Liancheng rushed to buy high-quality grain sources everywhere with a burning voice, and Song Liancheng can be said to have experienced a hundred battles.
However, the situation in Chongzuo City is a little different.
In the past, Song Liancheng relied on local grain brokers to grab grain, but Chongzuo City used to mainly produce sugarcane, and sugarcane was often contracted by sugar factories in different regions, and there was no need for so-called grain brokers.
This is not difficult for Song Liancheng. He walked around the village by himself, negotiated with growers on the spot, paid money with one hand, delivered goods with the other, and directly purchased grain to the company, which he did not have experienced. On the contrary, if you want to grab grain, land purchase is the most effective means.
Well, to put it bluntly, Song Liancheng's company is a "second-class dealer" of grain.
They are targeting soybeans in Gui province, which is naturally profitable.
Before the first batch of domestic soybeans hit the market, the average price of imported soybeans had risen for three consecutive months due to the ongoing drought and the spread of super weeds in the United States.
However, China's soybean dependence on foreign countries is relatively high, and domestic soybeans have no pricing power, so the rise in the price of imported soybeans is bound to drive the continuous rise of domestic soybean prices.
Now farmers, enterprises, and merchants are quite unanimously optimistic about the market outlook, large and small processing enterprises have been dispatched, and merchants from other places and local grain enterprises have also joined the war of grabbing "beans", and all walks of life are fighting, and the price of soybeans that have been robbed has risen all the way.
Song Liancheng knows that in this case, it is useless for you to negotiate with the growers, only the soybeans you have purchased in person are your own, otherwise others may intercept them halfway.
According to the plan, Song Liancheng drove a truck to find the old sugar farmer Yang Futang.
Yang Futang can be said to be the first batch of sugarcane farmers in Chongzuo City to join the "sugarcane-soybean" intercropping cooperative, and his decision may affect a large number of sugarcane farmers.
As soon as he arrived at Yang Futang's house, he saw that the person who looked like a big boss had just left, and Song Liancheng seemed to smell the smell of his peers, and he couldn't help but feel a tightening heart.
In the face of Song Liancheng, who took the initiative to come to the door, Yang Futang, an old sugar sugar farmer, was very stable.
"Uncle Yang, your cooperative's soybeans haven't been sold yet, right?" Song Liancheng confirmed with a smile.
Yang Futang was noncommittal: "It's just started harvesting, so it's not in a hurry." β
"Then the soybean variety you interplanted is 'Nanzao soybean' from Kagu, right?"
"Hmm. β
Song Liancheng's heart was first loose, and then tight.
The good thing is that Yang Futang and they are planting soybean varieties from Jiagu, and they haven't sold them yet.
In the market, the price of soybeans in many southern regions is higher than that of northeast varieties and Huanghuai varieties, forming a soybean price system with high prices in the south and low in the north. Because the south is closer to the soy product consumption market, high-protein soybeans are in short supply.
Jiagu's high-protein soybean varieties are particularly popular β with an average protein content of 47% and a maximum of 54%, and the processed soy products are of high yield and quality, so it can be said that buyers are not worried.
Well, as long as it is a soybean variety of Jiagu, whether it is a high-protein variety or a high-oil variety, there is no need to worry about buyers - take the latter as an example, the oil content is not inferior to that of imported genetically modified soybeans, and it is also a ton of soybean meal, and the efficiency of Jiagu high-oil soybean meal as feed is higher than that of imported soybeans.
This is also the main reason why buyers from all walks of life flocked to harvest after the emergence of a large area of Jiagu soybean planting area in Guizhou Province.
But Yang Futang's calm reaction made Song Liancheng feel bad.
He is afraid that he wants a higher price and "covers the beans and reluctantly sells".
For buyers, they are most afraid of this situation, because all market players are actively collecting grain, but the higher the price, the more farmers will not sell, "one household has beans, many bids", and the price of soybeans that have been coaxed has been rising.
Song Liancheng made a decisive bid: "Uncle Yang, you sell me soybeans for 2.55 yuan per catty, how much you want." β
"2.55 yuan / catty?" Yang Futang's eyes narrowed slightly.
"Yes, you can give cash directly to what you load. Song Liancheng said briskly.
Doing business, especially in the grain business, sometimes you don't need to be technical, just dare to gamble.
Song Liancheng's company believes that the price of high-quality domestic soybeans will continue to rise, so it dares to hoard goods and gamble on prices.
Song Liancheng's offer is already the company's reserve price. He knew that when the peasants were reluctant to sell, the most direct way was to offer a purchase price that they could not refuse. Otherwise, the more it drags on, the more likely it is that the price of beans will get out of control.
As far as he knew, there should be no higher bid than him.
And it is.
Yang Futang couldn't help but look him up and down a few times, and half sighed: "There are also a few companies that come to look for them, to be honest, you are the highest bidder." β
Song Liancheng must be in his heart.
"But ......"
Song Liancheng felt in his heart, he hated "but" the most!
"But I still can't sell it to you. β
"Uncle Yang, do you still think the price is low? Our company is already the most sincere. Don't be afraid to say, I don't think there will be a higher price than us. Song Liancheng swore solemnly.
"I believe it. Yang Futang nodded and said, "But you should know that our cooperative cooperates with Jiagu, and the soybeans we grow are generally purchased by Jiagu. β
Song Liancheng breathed a sigh of relief, it turned out that this was the reason.
He smiled and said, "I know." However, Uncle Yang, I don't think Jiagu's purchase price will be higher than our company's, right? Why do you say no if you can make more money? As for the agreement with Jiagu, you can rest assured, a big company like Jiagu will not sue ......you for breach of contract."
Song Liancheng already has a lot of experience in this regard.
In China, whether it is a farmer's cooperative or a large planter, order production is not a panacea. As long as the benefits are higher, the breach of contract is often visible. And companies often don't go out of their way to break farmers' contracts.
But Yang Futang shook his head: "You don't understand. β
"Do you know how high the yield per mu of our soybean interplanting is this year? close to 600 catties. Last year, it was only more than 400 pounds. Why is there such a big improvement? It is Jiagu who provides new technology. β
"It is more than 400 catties before, and the seeds are also provided by Jiagu, and the condition is to sign the only purchase agreement with Jiagu, so our soybeans are already Jiagu's when they are still in the seed state. β
"I also believe what you said, I shouldn't shout and kill if I sell you Jiagu, but what about next year? If you don't have Jiagu's seeds and technology, it will only be 300 catties per mu if you don't calculate this account, no one will sell you beans. So, if you want to buy beans, you can only talk to Jiagu. Yang Futang said earnestly.
Song Liancheng was dumbfounded, "...... Didn't you say it sooner?"
Yang Futang, an old cane farmer, smiled innocently: "Hehe, I also want to see how popular the soybeans I grow." β
Song Liancheng was almost angry, laughing at you, you are naΓ―ve, you wasted my expression and saliva in vain!
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