Chapter 33: Buying Cattle
"There are basically only three kinds of cattle photographed here, breeding cattle, small herds and special herds, if you want to, you have to shoot here, and my cattle over there are estimated to be very few." After sitting down, Lehman said to Jiang Hai and the others.
Hearing his words, Jiang Hai couldn't help but look at Robbins with some doubts, among these three kinds of cattle, he understood the breeding cattle.
It is a cattle that is left for breeding, generally speaking, it is a bull, a very strong bull, but what do the latter two mean?
"Small herds are those that are not in large quantities, for example, some family farms, do not want to raise anymore, but the number of cattle is not much, basically less than a hundred, will be sent here to buy, they will number the cattle, they can be sold individually, or in batches, special herds, refers to some more special cattle." Seeing Jiang Hai's doubts, Robbins continued to say that in the United States, the most raised cattle are naturally the national cattle of the United States, the Angus cow.
This breed has no horns, is resistant to rough food, and is known as the best beef cattle in the world, with an adult bull weighing between 700 and 1,100 kilograms.
The weight of the cow is 500 to 800 kilograms, the character is mild, the daily weight is about one kilogram, the marbling of the muscles is quite good, the meat is more, the slaughter rate is generally between 60% and 65%, and it is also the most popular cattle breed of the United States.
In addition to this cattle, Brahmins, Charolais, Hyford and Piedmont are all popular cattle breeds in the United States.
The slaughter rate of these cattle is very high, and compared with these excellent cattle breeds, domestic cattle are much worse.
The most famous cattle in China should be Luxi cattle, in addition, Qinchuan cattle, Nanyang cattle are also more famous, but the slaughter rate of these cattle is quite low, the amount of meat, even the meat residue is counted, it is good to have 50%.
After all, domestic cattle were not raised to eat at the beginning, but to farm, if you talk about strength, or attack power, domestic cattle throw off the United States and a few streets in Europe, but when it comes to meat quality and meat quantity, it is far worse.
The 15 percent difference in the middle plays a crucial role.
The meat produced by raising 100 cows on the side of the US imperialists is more than the 115 heads in China, and more importantly, there are pastures on the side of the US imperialists, and there are places where cattle are raised in countries with a total of only 300 million people, but not in China.
There are too many people, so the number of concentrated cattle has not been able to go up, the cattle breed is not good, the number of stocks can not go up, the domestic beef is not expensive to have ghosts, although the country has also thought about the introduction of foreign cattle, but foreign cattle are not allowed to be transported to the country, this is one of the embargoed things, finally get the Limousin cattle and Simmental cattle, in the domestic breeding, has always been a more troublesome thing, so it is difficult to promote, the current domestic cattle, compared with beef cattle, prefer to raise dairy cows, is also this reason.
"Here's a breeding cow." After listening to Robbins's brief introduction, Jiang Hai also nodded, indicating that he understood, and at this time, the last round of auctions had ended, and with the auctioneer's words, a person walked out with a cow, which was obviously more than one circle bigger than the cow in Jiang Hai's impression, tall and strong.
In the animal kingdom, it is a natural law that superiority is inferior to inferiority, so if you want to be a breeding cattle, you must first be big.
These breeding cattle participating in the auction are all carefully selected, and the size is really not ordinarily large.
"This is a Charolais cow, weighing 1,211 kilograms, look at the bones and strong limbs, if this cow starts to go crazy, there are no three or five people who don't want to control it, but we all know that the Charolais cow is famous for its good temper, just like its ancestors in France, even if the war is raging, we are still docile." Patting the cow on the back, the auctioneer said with a smile, and when he heard his words, the cowboy next to him laughed.
Jiang Hai also knew that he was referring to World War II, when Germany defeated France, and France did not resist under German rule, and still lived that romantic and warm life.
This is also a very embarrassing thing for the allies, but this does not seem to be very good to the US imperialists.
Because everyone in the world knows that the white people of American imperialism are basically the descendants of the French and the British, is it really good to say this?
In fact, this is Jiang Hai doesn't understand, after France and Britain occupied the Americas, it was actually not peaceful.
The Boston area is called the New England region, why is it called that? It's because most of the people here are of English descent, and they don't care about making fun of the French or anything like that.
"This cow shall we either?" Looking at the big cow in front of him, Jiang Hai asked Robbins.
"The main cattle on our ranch are Angus cattle, because only Angus cattle and Brahmin cattle are available in such large quantities near Boston, and if we buy such breeding cattle back, there will inevitably be riots, and the quality of the beef that is crossbred will not be so good." Hearing Jiang Hai's words, Robbins here patiently explained to Jiang Hai.
Hearing Robbins's words, Jiang Hai nodded, indicating that he understood, and he didn't understand it anyway, so he just looked at it.
But they don't want it, it doesn't mean that others don't want it, and in the end the cow was sold at a price of 3,200 US dollars, which is not low for breeding cattle, you must know that the purchase in batches, the price of a cow in the United States is about 1,000 US dollars.
Then a few more cows were photographed, but basically it was not Charolais, or Hayford, and Piedmond, and when he was in Piedmond, Robbins obviously hesitated, because Piedmond cattle are also very good, but he is so-called good, not good meat, and his meat output is not small, but when it comes to the quality of meat, it is very average.
But the cowhide of this cow is the best cowhide, and the cowhide of an adult cow can even be sold for a thousand dollars.
Of course, this also has to be rushed, and it is not so easy to sell cowhides, besides, this kind of cattle is relatively wild and not easy to raise.
If it's just a small wave, it's a little more than worth the loss, but if you raise a big wave, if you blow up the group, it will be troublesome, so after hesitating, he decided to give up for the time being, and then talk about it when he wants to raise it later.
After this batch of cattle goes down, it is the auction of small batches of cattle, and this time it is not just one cow, but a full thirty, these cattle have marks on their bodies and ears, and it is not difficult to recognize, and these cows, basically black, look really weird.
"These are Angus cows, we can get out." Laughing at Jiang Hai, Robbins here said.
"Okay, here's the time when the cattle of Parr Ranch will appear, we all know that the old Pal of Parr Ranch is almost seventy years old, it seems that he finally wants to spend his old age in peace, and he only has one daughter, it seems that his daughter is not ready to take over his ranch, so now he has to sell these cattle, we all know that these old Parr cattle fed with refined drink, naturally there will be no problems, there are a total of thirty cows, one adult bull, twenty-three cows, Five of them are now pregnant, and six calves are less than a year old, and we are now auctioning them...... We'll auction the whole group together, and if the price doesn't meet the old Parr's expectations, we'll auction them separately. The auctioneer took a look, and the old man, who had walked in with the herd, spoke loudly after obtaining his consent.
The people here are all well-known, and naturally know that this old man has a hand in raising cattle, and this batch of cattle, at least in his hand, will not be pitted, so from the beginning, the bidding price of these people is very fast, and the starting auction of thirty cows is 30,000 US dollars, but it has only been a minute, and it has grown to 42,000, and Robbins seems to be very interested in these cattle.
"Forty-five thousand." As a man in the distance raised the price to forty-four thousand, Robbins added another hundred dollars.
"These cows are all good cows, look at those five cows, it is estimated that it will not be long before they will be produced, and after a year, they can be sold in small years, and this batch of cattle, regardless of quality, is now equivalent to thirty-five cows." Looking at Jiang Hai, Burke-Dahler here was also talking to Jiang Hai.
"Of course, and the most important thing, the old Pal does have a hand in raising cattle, these cows, the bull and a few cows, the texture is quite good, if nothing else, it is easy to slaughter the top meat, and the price of these beef will take off." At this time, Philemon also pulled his head over and said excitedly.
As mentioned earlier, the beef of the US imperialists is divided into eight grades, among which the price of the highest grade of beef is really outrageously expensive.
The price of a pound of the top beef, even three or five hundred US dollars, taking a cow, an average of 800 kilograms, for example, is 1,600 catties, 2,000 pounds, of which the meat yield is 65%, 1,300 pounds, with the proportion of the best beef in this is 10 percent, that is, 130 pounds, a pound of the most preferred beef, the price of raw meat, the average is 375 US dollars a pound, a cow is only the tenth of the best meat price, it will be sold to more than 40,000 US dollars, nearly 50,000 US dollars.
And what about the rest of the beef? Even if it can't be sold at such a high price, but the second-level one is not expensive to sell for more than 100 dollars, the third-level preferred is about 50 dollars, the standard purchase is 8 dollars, and the sale is more than 6 dollars, which adds up, if a cow is very well raised, a cow can create a price of nearly 100,000 dollars, of course, half of it comes from its best piece of meat, for Robbins, these cattle of Old Parr have the qualifications to become this kind of cattle.
As for Jiang Hai, he was stunned for a moment, and then the corners of his mouth unconsciously grinned, others may still wonder if the cattle he raised will lose money, but Jiang Hai doesn't care at all, because with the cooperation of his blood, these cattle will inevitably be the best when they are slaughtered in the future, and they will be outrageously good.
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