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Second Uncle Andy explained to Li Yifan the current general economic situation in Canada, but Li Yifan listened with gold stars in his eyes.

The good news is that according to the current exchange rate, the exchange rate of the Canadian dollar against the yuan has almost fallen to the lowest value in recent years, almost reaching about 1 to 3.5.

This is good news for Li Yifan, who plans to purchase a beef cattle from Canada.

"Although the country has recently depreciated the Canadian dollar in order to stimulate exports, but for the livestock industry, the role in the short term is still not large, after all, Australia and New Zealand are both major exporters of animal husbandry, and they are also using exchange rate depreciation to stimulate the export of livestock products, and our largest trade object The United States is itself a big country in animal husbandry, so the international competition in animal husbandry is very fierce, coupled with the recent financial cash flow is really tight, a large amount of capital has flocked to the NASDAQ, Therefore, at present, the business situation of many farmers in China is struggling. In the last two weeks alone, we have dealt with several cases of farm bankruptcies. ”

When Li Yifan heard Uncle Andy say this, he already felt a little shining, but he didn't expect to come this time, and he really picked it up.

Now the country is in the boom period of raising dairy cows, many farmers have begun to enter this industry, but everyone chooses the source of dairy cows, but unanimously choose Australia or New Zealand, the main reason is because the animal husbandry industry in these two countries is too famous, and the other point is where to import dairy cows from them. Shipping costs will also be relatively cheap.

This has also contributed to the current dilemma of the livestock industry in Canada. After all, compared to Australia and New Zealand. Their dairy and beef cattle are not very famous.

But this is a good opportunity for me!

"Uncle Andy, do you have a suitable farm that you are planning to sell beef cattle or dairy cows in the near future?"

Li Yifan then asked Andy, Andy looked at him, and then said with a smile.

"You're asking the right person, I really have a lot of farmers who plan to sell their beef cattle or dairy cows, and today you are waiting for news at home. I'll go to the company later, let the people below sort out a piece of information, I'll bring it back to you in the evening, you take a good look, if there is anything you like, I'll arrange for you to talk directly with the farmer. ”

“OK！ No problem. ”

After breakfast, Uncle Andy went out, Li Yifan had nothing to do, so he helped his second aunt do some housework at home, and chatted with her by the way.

It turns out that Aunt Victoria is also a mixed race. However, her ancestry is more complicated, with North American Indian ancestry. There is also one-eighth Irish ancestry, and one-eighth Chinese ancestry.

Cousin Billy didn't know where he had gone, Aunt Victoria was home alone every day, and Li Yifan could speak well, but he was very happy to coax the second aunt, and even took him out of the city at noon for a stroll and a big meal.

After returning home after lunch, Li Yifan took out the haode materials he had prepared for a long time and began to understand the animal husbandry situation in Canada in detail.

In fact, Canada's livestock industry is not weak compared to Australia or New Zealand, which are famous for shijie, but this is only reflected in the per capita production capacity and the quality of products.

After all, Canada is a high-latitude country, and most of the country's land is in the alpine zone, and even most of the country's land is in the tundra like Russia, so it is not particularly suitable for large-scale development of animal husbandry.

Canada's permanent grazing land accounts for only 3 percent of their country, which is not much compared to Australia or New Zealand.

But don't underestimate the strength of Canada's livestock industry because of this, they can produce more than one million tons of beef every year, accounting for two percent of the total production of shijie, and the output of milk is as high as about 7.8 million tons.

The main production area of beef cattle in Canada is Alberta, which is close to British Columbia, where Canada's well-known savannah region produces crops such as wheat, rye, barley and corn, so it is very convenient to obtain feed, so it has also caused the development of beef cattle husbandry in this region.

The main production areas of dairy cows are Quebec and Ontario on the east coast, where the population is large, so because of the demand, dairy cattle animal husbandry is more developed.

In fact, in Alberta, it's not that large-scale dairy cows can't be raised, but after all, compared with the densely populated east, it belongs to the great west of Canada, and there is really no large-scale population settlement outside of a decent city in Vancouver.

Therefore, if you breed dairy cows on a large scale here, you will face the problem of transportation, storage and sales of milk, so there are not many farms that breed dairy cows in this area, but there are more farms that breed beef cattle, after all, beef cattle are still relatively easy to handle.

In the evening, Uncle Andy brought back a thick pile of materials, which were full of information about all kinds of farms that were applying for bankruptcy in their company, and let Li Yifan choose.

The farms in it come from many places, many in British Columbia, but more often from the neighboring province of Alberta, to be honest, Alberta can be said to be the richest province in Canada, but now their situation is also the most difficult status.

Alberta, once known for its oil sands, has come to a near standstill since the start of the year when international oil prices fell to below $20 a barrel at their lowest.

And the other pillar of their province's economy, the livestock industry, is also struggling because of cash flow shortages, as can be seen from the generous bankruptcy filing and the request for Uncle Andy's law firm to help find a financing partner, most of Alberta's farmers are not having a good time right now.

Li Yifan carefully selected the information of several farms from this, and then handed it to Uncle Andy.

"Uncle, if you have time tomorrow, you can help me ask their beef and dairy quotes."

To be honest, Li Yifan has read a lot of information, but it seems that there are only a few people in his mind.

Because most of Alberta's ranches only raise beef cattle, not dairy cows, and the farms he chose are the few that have dairy cows.

After Andy took the information from Li Yifan's hand, he took a general look, and then pondered for a while, he raised his head and asked Li Yifan.

"Yifan, to be honest, what do you plan to produce when you buy cows? Beef cattle are easy to raise, but dairy cows are fine! The cost of feeding is still relatively high, if your cows are shipped back to China, if one is not well served, the yield of the cows will easily plummet, and the business will be a big loss. ”

"Huh? Is that so? We originally planned to ship it back to produce milk powder, uncle, as you know, it is not that there are no large dairy companies on the mainland, and we do not have the strength to compete with those large dairy companies in the fresh milk market with relatively large profits, so we plan to work milk powder, especially infant milk powder. ”

Li Yifan had heard of the cow industry before, and he really hadn't studied it carefully, but in fact, Uncle Andy was very reasonable.

If the cow suddenly arrives in a new environment, and this new environment is not the same as the environment in which he was in, the milk production will definitely be reduced.

In the years when the cow was hot, many domestic farmers spent a lot of money to import high-yield dairy cows from New Zealand and Australia, but because of unscientific management, or the wrong way of raising, the milk yield of the cows imported by Zuihou spent a lot of money often could not reach the level of the same period abroad, and Li Yifan had heard of this.

"Actually, Yifan, if you have enough funds, I suggest that you simply buy a ranch here, after all, the experience here is more mature, and the livestock environment is better than that in China, in addition, don't you think that the beef cattle industry is actually very promising? And if you really plan to produce milk powder, I suggest that you really don't buy a ranch here, and then produce it here, because the production of milk powder by Jishu here is more advanced, and the cost per ton of milk powder produced is actually not high, according to the current market price estimate, in fact, the cost price per ton of bulk milk powder is only more than 3,000 Canadian dollars, if you want to large-scale breeding, use more automated equipment, then the cost will be lower......"

"What? The cost of a ton of milk powder is only a few thousand dollars? If it is converted into RMB, it is only more than 10,000 yuan, less than 20,000 yuan? ”

Li Yifan's volume was raised uncontrollably, he had long known that this milk powder industry was a profiteering industry, but what he didn't expect was that this profiteering was so big?

Thinking about the future generations, although it was after inflation, the arrival price of a meal of milk powder in Hong Kong at that time was only more than 20,000 or 30,000, and now it is only more than 10,000 yuan, he can't be excited!

It seems that the milk powder industry is really very profitable! (To be continued.) )