Divorce in middle age: starting with the manor system

"This is mainly due to the high cost of raising cattle and the difficulty in solving the problem of large-scale breeding feed."

Liu Haitao nodded quickly when he heard the words: "Boss Wu is right. The cost of raising cattle is acceptable. After all, there are a lot of profits, but the feed is too difficult to get!"

"The feed is hard to get?" He Zhenhong asked in confusion.

Chen Changsheng was also a little puzzled: "Now that you have money, can you still buy feed?"

Wu Qingfeng didn't speak when he heard the words.

Instead, Liu Haitao shook his head: "Do you know how many people feed me?"

He Zhenhong and Chen Changsheng looked at Liu Haitao with puzzled expressions.

"There are more than 30, of which about [-] are in An City, and the other seven or eight are in Hanzhong, Xi'an, and Yan'an. The farthest feed supplier is from Yulin." Liu Haitao shook his head and smiled wryly.

"Such a large area?"

He Zhenhong and Chen Changsheng looked at each other and were immediately surprised. Although they didn't know the feed market, it was too exaggerated that the sources of feed spread all over the province.

"You think that the roughage needed by cattle and sheep is a best-selling product. As far as my current feed suppliers are all accumulated through my cooperation over the years, if one or two run away, my cattle factory has to have Trouble!" Liu Haitao laughed.

More than 30 suppliers, if one or two ran away, there would be trouble. This statement really surprised He Zhenhong and the others.

Seeing that the two were puzzled, Wu Qingfeng smiled and said: "The difficulty of solving feed is a major problem restricting the development of the cattle industry. Mr. Liu has developed so many feed suppliers in the whole province and does not rely on other provinces. It can be seen that Mr. Liu It's great in business!"

"Boss Wu praised it absurdly. It's amazing. It's nothing more than the network resources accumulated over a long period of time." Liu Haitao shook his head.

"Mr. Wu, I don't understand. Is it so difficult to get the feed?" He Zhenhong glanced at Liu Haitao, then looked at Wu Qingfeng and asked in bewilderment.

Wu Qingfeng smiled slightly when he heard the words: "Raising cattle is no better than raising pigs. The cycle of raising pigs is shorter. You can mainly use a large amount of concentrated feed, supplemented by silage feed."

"However, it takes at least two years for a cow to be slaughtered, especially for local cattle, which may take two and a half years, and for beef cattle, which takes at least one and a half years. If concentrated feed is used for a long time, the cost of feed will be too high."

"At least two and a half years for local cattle to be slaughtered. If they are fed with concentrated feed, at least three quarters of Mr. Liu's net profit of 4000 yuan will be thrown in. If this is the case, it is not as cost-effective as raising pigs."

"So cattle are generally raised with cheap roughage, and concentrated feed is generally fed during the fattening period."

"Generally, roughage comes from other places and locally, but if you buy roughage from other places, the freight price may be higher than the price of the roughage itself, which increases the cost of farming."

"So we can only rely on local solutions, but how many people are still farming in Anshi? There are no farmers farming, and where does the roughage come from? We are surrounded by mountains in Anshi, and there is no large-scale agriculture, so we want to grow in Anshi. It is completely unrealistic to buy roughage on a large scale."

"You have to understand that cattle consume a lot of roughage. A cow needs to prepare tens of thousands of catties of roughage a year, which is equivalent to 3 mu of corn stalks.

If you need to collect 100 tons of corn stalks on 300 acres of land to raise 300 cattle, let alone Mr. Liu's 1 head of cattle.

The harvest season of corn is only about one week. If the harvest cannot be harvested in time, the farmers will not wait for you and will directly smash it into the ground.

In addition, there are fewer and fewer farmers currently farming in Anshi, and there are even fewer sources of roughage.

This is also the reason why there are few large-scale cattle farms in China. It is because there are fewer farmers farming and there are too few sources of roughage. After all, most provinces are not like Henan, the three eastern provinces, and Yimapingchuan. There are many large-scale farms, and they have sufficient source of roughage.

This also includes our Qin land.

The feed for 10 cows is easy to solve, and the feed for 100 cows is not too difficult. If it is feed for 1000 cows, it will be much more difficult, let alone Mr. Liu's 1 cows.

So now there is no shortage of wealthy investors, but the lack of feed for raising cattle is the main reason for restricting the development of large-scale cattle farms and super-large cattle farms. "

"Mr. Liu is able to rely on the channels in the province to increase the scale of breeding to more than 1 heads today. It is indeed very capable." Wu Qingfeng explained, then looked at Liu Haitao and smiled.

"I see!"

After He Zhenhong and Chen Changsheng understood, they nodded involuntarily, and at the same time looked at Liu Haitao with some admiration.

At least they could feel from Wu Qingfeng's words that Liu Haitao's ability to develop to the current scale of breeding is indeed very powerful.

Liu Haitao smiled, but seeing the sincere admiration in the eyes of Wu Qingfeng and the three of them, he was also very happy.

Don't look at his current glory, but a few years ago, in order to raise cattle, it was really a waste of time, more tiring than a dog.

"Actually, Mr. Liu, I have a personal suggestion for you. Of course, it's purely a personal opinion." Wu Qingfeng picked up the teacup, looked at Liu Haitao with a smile and said with a smile.

Liu Haitao was taken aback for a moment, then quickly said, "Please tell me."

Wu Qingfeng nodded, took a sip of water and said with a smile: "According to the cattle raising market, there is currently a huge gap in China's demand for beef, which will naturally force more people to enter the cattle raising industry."

"But now there are fewer and fewer breeding cows, and it is becoming more and more difficult to buy calves. Out of 10 people who start raising cattle, at least 8 must raise fattening cattle.

Compared with breeding cattle, fattening cattle have small investment, quick benefits and high profits. On the contrary, breeding cattle have large investment, slow benefits and low profits.

Therefore, the current situation of my country's cattle industry is that there are fewer and fewer fertile cows, the price of calves is getting higher and higher, and the beef gap is getting bigger and bigger. "

"If you take the route of breeding calves, I personally think it should be very promising."

"Breeding calves?" Liu Haitao was a little surprised.

"That's right, the price of calves is soaring now. I remember that my dad sold a half-year-old calf for only 100 yuan in [-] years, but last year my dad sold a half-year-old calf and it has grown to [-] yuan." It’s almost [-]. According to my guess, calves will be in short supply. Large-scale cattle breeding will inevitably embark on the road of self-breeding in the future, because the shortage of beef will inevitably lead to a large number of farmers who want to fatten cattle, but calves are limited. , especially now that the breeding of calves is far below the normal level, the calf market is bound to usher in an explosion!"

"If it weren't for my limited energy now, I would like to devote myself to the calf industry." Wu Qingfeng laughed.

This is of course a joke. Although it is true that the price of calves is getting better and better, from his personal point of view, it is unnecessary to breed calves.

After all, there is a system, and there are a lot of profitable farming, so why earn that hard money.

"Mr. Wu is right. The price of calves is indeed getting more and more expensive now, and the supply of goods is also decreasing. I have kept breeding cows for the past two years, otherwise next year's slaughter volume will drop severely."

"Even Mr. Wu is optimistic, it seems that I have to study it!" Liu Haitao laughed.