The rise of nanometers

Lu Province, Quancheng.

Huang Xiuyuan took his assistants Zhang Lei and Huang Weichang and took the high-speed train north to Shandong Province on January 21.

As Suiren Company's largest market and the area with the most investment, he, the chairman, should come and inspect it in person, both logically and logically.

Lin Baijie will be in Lingnan during the Spring Festival this year and will also visit various branches and subsidiaries in Lingnan to express his condolences.

Huang Xiuyuan's father and mother expressed condolences to the Chengdu branch on his behalf.

Zhao Xiaobing, the manager of the Shandong Branch, personally took Huang Xiuyuan and others to inspect subsidiaries and factories across Shandong Province.

When I came to the Blue Age Branch in Rizhao, the first project I inspected was the Rizhao Seawater Desalination Plant Phase I Project.

Due to the weather in the northern winter, the progress of the factory was delayed a bit. Fortunately, work started at full speed before it snowed, and the ground leveling and concrete pouring were completed.

At present, it has been completed. The first floor is the main concrete frame structure, and the second and third floors are steel structure buildings. The weather has little impact on the construction of the steel structure.

Equipment is also being put in place one after another, and some water purification equipment is already being installed and debugged.

The entire Rizhao seawater desalination plant is divided into four areas, namely the potassium salt refining area, water purification area, coarse salt storage area, and purified water storage area.

On one side of the water purification area, a huge water pipeline is under construction for more than one kilometer. It will eventually be extended to 6.7 kilometers, 17 kilometers, and 39 kilometers away from the desalination plant, and will be injected into three reserve reservoirs respectively.

This place used to be a saline-alkali land. After planning to build a desalination plant, about 2,400 acres of industrial land have been reserved here to prepare for future expansion.

"Xiaobing, when do you think the Rizhao factory will be put into use?"

"Mr. Huang, if everything goes well, it will be put into use by the end of February this year."

Huang Xiuyuan then asked: "What about Daocheng Factory and Dongying Factory?"

"It's almost the same. The Dongying side is even faster."

After leaving Rizhao, we inspected various inland cities and came to the Dezhou Branch.

Inside the Texas dairy breeding base.

The number of cows in the base has been rising steadily over time, and now reaches more than 5,000.

I drank a bottle of pasteurized milk that had just come off the production line. The taste was similar to that of Shanmei Dairy Farm. I looked at the cows who were silently eating grass. The feed was green storage mixed with hay.

"It seems that the situation of farmers abandoning their animals is quite serious."

Fang Zhan, the deputy manager of the Texas Milk Company, introduced some situations to him. The wave of dairy cow abandonment in the northern region this year is indeed very obvious.

Huang Xiuyuan squatted down and grabbed a handful of fodder: "What is the current cost of breeding?"

"We are doing better. The company supplies its own gas and water, and the employees harvest hay. The cost of raising beef is about 12 yuan per kilogram, and the cost of raising milk is 4.2 yuan per liter. The main reason is that the feed is too expensive." At the end of the battle, I was very helpless.

In the domestic breeding industry, feed costs are as high as about 80%. On average, the feed cost is as high as 9.6 yuan per kilogram of beef.

In developed countries, feed costs only account for 50-60% of the cost of breeding. For example, the comprehensive cost of beef in the United States is about 10.5 yuan per kilogram.

Regardless of the difference of one or two yuan, it will actually have a huge impact. When the quantity expands to the ton level, the cost per ton will differ by 1,000 to 2,000 yuan.

Domestic feed costs are too high, mainly because of food supply problems. It is already very difficult for the country to maintain the security of food supply.

Therefore, we can only import large amounts of corn and soybean meal as feed raw materials. The price of imported things is definitely higher than that of the place of origin. After all, shipping costs are a big expense.

In developed countries, surplus wheat can even be used to feed livestock, and their feed costs are only about half of those in China.

If it were not for the offset of labor costs, the cost gap between the two parties would be even greater.

Huang Xiuyuan wrote down this incident and gave each of the dairy farm employees a Chinese New Year red envelope.

Return to the minibus.

The vast land is covered with silver.

He typed some content on his laptop from time to time, summarized the issues he had inspected along the way, and wrote down his own thoughts on it.

There is actually no way to solve the problem of feed costs. In terms of the current domestic cultivated land area, domestically produced corn is not cost-effective.

Just now he was in the dairy base, and the green storage material was alfalfa imported from the United States. It is a high-quality feed with a protein content of about 22%.

Although the domestically introduced alfalfa is an older variety and its protein content does not reach 22% of that of imported alfalfa, it is still an excellent feed.

The more important thing is that alfalfa can be grown in saline-alkali land (yield will decrease). For China, which is short of cultivated land, being able to grow in saline-alkali land is definitely a huge advantage.

In addition, sweet potatoes are also a substitute. Both sweet potatoes and sweet potato leaves can be used as feed, replacing part of the corn and soybean meal feed.

Considering that the quality of domestically produced alfalfa is slightly poor, the price is around 1,500 yuan per ton, while the price of feed sweet potatoes is between 300 and 500 yuan per ton, and sweet potato leaves are around 100 and 200 yuan per ton.

The price of imported alfalfa is about 2,000-2,500 yuan per ton; the price of imported corn is about 1,500-1,800 yuan per ton; the price of imported soybean meal is about 3,800-4,500 yuan per ton.

From this comparison, I feel that sweet potatoes are extremely cost-effective as feed.

Due to the protein content of domestic alfalfa, compared with imported alfalfa, it is obviously not cost-effective.

However, there are other issues involved. Alfalfa and sweet potatoes are indeed good. The question is how to obtain them?

Suiren Company can’t just plant it on its own!

But if they don’t grow it themselves, farmers will not take the initiative to plant it in large quantities. If they purchase it on a large scale in the market, the purchase price will be further raised, further losing the local advantage.

Therefore, we must find a way to allow farmers to grow alfalfa and sweet potatoes while ensuring that prices do not rise.

Suddenly he had an idea.

You must know that in the current domestic planting industry, fertilizer expenditures are definitely not small, and Suiren Company happens to produce a large amount of organic fertilizers, high-nitrogen organic fertilizers, and potassium fertilizers.

Is it possible to use fertilizer to make up the difference?

Allowing farmers to purchase sweet potatoes, sweet potato leaves, and alfalfa to obtain purchase quotas for low-priced fertilizers. At the same time, low-priced fertilizers will further reduce the production costs of agricultural products, creating an obvious price advantage.

Record this idea. This is currently just a rough idea, and many details need to be further refined.

For example, the exchange ratio between the two, how to determine a reasonable price range, how to convince farmers, and how to manage and digest these feed raw materials.

These situations must be taken into consideration.

For this plan, he will ask Jiang Hailin to lead people to investigate and then improve the specific details.

In preliminary ideas, the possibility of realization is very high.

Because alfalfa has a very large yield per unit mu, it can also adapt to saline-alkali soil and does not occupy grain farmland, so it has the potential to be promoted in northern regions.

Sweet potatoes also do not occupy fertile land, and the yield per unit acre is also very large. It has huge potential in the southern regions with many mountainous areas, and even in the northern regions.

As long as the operation is reasonable, the raw material cost of feed can be effectively reduced, thereby promoting the reduction of breeding costs.

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