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The last livestock auction I participated in was generally more official, with hosts, white gloves, and a variety of livestock products.

This time, it was the auction of the owner, the cowboy, the parents and children, etc., from the seventy or eighty-year-old to the seven or eighteen-year-old children.

The reason why there are children at the auction is because there are children who have raised a few lambs, and they also brought the auction, saying that the efficiency of the family's pasture in the last breeding season was not good, and he wanted to sell the lambs to his father to buy sheep cubs to raise money.

Lao Wang was greatly moved when he saw it, he deliberately took a picture and kept it for little Lori to see, look, what kind of consciousness is this? The gap between the two children is too big, and other people's children are different from their own bear children.

He photographed a few lambs, he didn't know how many of them, and finally he got the lambs for 8,000 yuan, and the audience applauded him, and the people around him shook hands and congratulated him.

Such auctions are more amateurish, but Wang Bo thinks they are better than the officially organized auctions.

He said that the amateur is the host amateur, in fact, the on-site facilities are very professional, the small hall covers an area of thousands of square meters, there are auction venues, livestock sheds and breeding fences, because the person responsible for the auction of sheep is the rancher or the cowboy himself, so he understands the situation more and answers all questions.

The first auction lasted four hours, and by the end of the auction everyone was grumbling with hunger.

Wang Bo thought it was almost over, but Thomas said to him with a smile: "This is just the beginning, don't underestimate this kind of country auction, the scale is not small." ”

In the afternoon, more sheep came to the scene, and the parking lot outside the auditorium was parked with various agricultural vehicles, about 100, which was particularly spectacular.

When Wang Bo and Thomas returned from lunch together, they saw that there were more mobile feeding pens in the backyard of the small hall, which contained all kinds of sheep and alpacas.

Seeing his surprise, Thomas laughed and said, "It's not surprising, alpacas are also treated as sheep in the pasture." Are you interested? I remember the last time you went to the auction, you came specifically for the alpacas, right? ”

Wang Bo shook his head and said, "I was interested last time, but forget it this time." ”

There is a queue at the entrance at the back of the auditorium, and a girl registers in front of the computer, next to a veteran cowboy who checks the information to make sure there are no errors.

Thomas saw that Wang Bo was unfamiliar with such an auction, so he introduced him: "According to your Chinese dialect, these sheep are already famous before the auction, and everyone is ready for what sheep they need and what kind of sheep they need." ”

It is not only the sheep that will participate in the auction, but also sheep raising equipment and pasture.

The auction in the afternoon is more formal than in the morning, the morning is a family file, and in the afternoon everyone returns to practical application and begins to take the capitalist road.

Two girls were handing out pamphlets, and they were so crudely made that it was clearly improvised, because there was a printer under the auction table that was sending out papers.

In the morning, the auction was a bit chaotic, but in the afternoon, the situation improved a lot, and the auction items appeared in order.

Wang Bo looked at it, and the order was carried out according to fattening sheep, eliminating ewes, growing ewes, culling rams, breeding rams, sheep cubs and disabled sheep.

The auction was carried out like a horse watching the flowers, and the sheep were constantly dared to enter the breeding pen, and soon caught up with the field, and the owner followed the bidding on the field.

Because most of these ranchers know each other privately, and the sheep are well understood in advance, there is no need to cheat on the auction, just say anything.

Thomas asked, "What can you tell from the current auction?" ”

Wang Bo took a closer look and said: "Well, the most fattening sheep and the least breeding rams participated in the auction, which shows that the sheep industry is still very popular in the local area, and everyone is not ready to sell the breeding sheep and stop working." ”

"And then?"

Wang Bo said: "There is also the fact that the price of forage grass is relatively high this year, which exceeds the psychological price of ranchers, and the profit margin is too low. ”

"Anything else?"

Wang Bo thought about it carefully and shook his head: "It's gone, what else?" ”

Thomas smiled and said, "You see a lot of things, I didn't expect you, as the mayor of the town, to pay so much attention to animal husbandry. But you don't see enough. ”

"For example, the sheep breeds auctioned are many and messy, and the individual groups are very different, which shows that the local sheep breeding industry is still in the initial stage, and there is no consensus on what sheep to breed better."

Wang Bo suddenly realized that he didn't see that this was his lack of experience, and the other was that he used Chinese thinking to consider this problem.

In the eyes of the Chinese, eggs cannot be put in one basket, and farming is also, try to raise as many varieties as possible, in case a certain variety has a bad market prospect there are other options.

New Zealanders don't think so, a mature market is a unified market, everyone breeds the same species, so that the matching of breeding, treatment, forage equipment and breeding tools is higher.

"Kulau is a traditional farming and pastoral area, but the rise of large-scale sheep farming is not long, because the local people are mainly of British and French descent, like to eat beef and not like mutton, this special organization of a sheep auction, there is a significance for ranchers to run in with each other."

Thomas laughed: "You may think it's pointless, but if I'm a black-hearted rancher and I want to have fewer competitors, then at an auction like this, I can find someone to bid some inferior sheep breeds at a high price." Guess what happens if I do that? ”

Wang Bo sighed: "People will think that these inferior sheep breeds are the most popular, and then swarm to breed them wrongly. ”

"Yes."

Wang Bo listened to the price, fattening sheep is generally 50 to 80 pounds of weight to be sold, the price is between 150 yuan and 250 yuan.

Compared to sheep from Sunset Ranch, this is the price of the Mariana Trench, but Thomas says the price is 15% higher than last year, which shows how cheap the average lamb in New Zealand is.

To be honest, if it weren't for Thomas's introduction, Wang Bo really wouldn't have imagined that the sheep breeding industry was not very popular in Kulau, because New Zealand's sheep are almost the business card of the country's animal husbandry.

New Zealand's animal husbandry industry is developed, is the country's economic foundation, animal husbandry output value accounts for 80% of the total agricultural output value, the population engaged in animal husbandry also accounts for 80% of the agricultural population, and the export volume of mutton and dairy products ranks first in the world, wool exports are the second in the world, and the output of coarse wool accounts for 40% of the world's total output!

He checked the reason on the Internet and found that the sheep farming in Kulau is indeed underdeveloped, and the breeding here is dominated by cattle, deer, chickens and ducks, and the reason why sheep were not raised before was that there were too many sheep in New Zealand, and the local people thought that the profit margin of the sheep industry was too small.

(To be continued.) )