American Ranch

Chapter 432 Livestock Futures Trading Center
"Hi, Boss."

The office of the tin house, Brett poked his head out from upstairs and shouted.

The construction of the Yunshan Ranch office building was planned, but now that there is no money, it has been put on hold.

Chen Mo looked up and waved his hand into the office.

Bright came here to sign a contract for 50 tons of corn, and also signed a feed purchase contract.

Due to the trade friction between China and the United States, American farmers have reduced a large amount of corn planting, so that the current corn price is very high.The domestic corn price has basically reached 1840 yuan per ton, excluding transportation costs.

The extra 50 tons of corn from Bright's side belonged to the River Valley Farming Company, which was a futures contract bought last year, and the price was relatively cheap at that time.Now sell it to Chen Mo for 1825 yuan per ton, including transportation costs, and there must be some additional terms.

Hegu Animal Husbandry Company built 30 breeding buildings here. This is the first phase of the project, all of which are breeding buildings.For sow feed and ewe feed, different feeds need to be fed in different periods and mixed and matched to create maximum value.

"Boss, this is a contract for 50 tons of corn. If you want it, you can deliver it at the end of the month." Bright handed over the contract.

Chen Mo looked at the contract and signed it: "Aren't you here specifically for 50 tons of corn?"

"Of course there is also the purchase of feed. The price of feed for sows is too expensive, can it be cheaper."

Feed during pregnancy, feed for lactating sows, and feed for sows are all different.But no matter what, the feed price for sows is more expensive than that for meat pigs...

Feed prices are also based on domestic feed prices of the same type.It can be cheaper because the valley pastures can produce high-protein forage... Protein is divided into crude protein and protein. Sweet elephant grass that grows for 20-25 days has high crude protein, and alfalfa that grows for about 30 days has high protein content. .

For sow feed, these two pastures should be used together.And to make feed, corn is needed... No matter how the ratio is, a ton of feed for pregnant sows needs about 50.00% corn.The sugar content of corn is about 70.00% three (carbohydrates, sugars and sugars are different).

"Pregnant sow feed costs 3300 yuan per ton, which is already a very low price." Chen Mo shook his head. The cost of pregnant sow feed is close to 1700 yuan per ton.

Brett took out a file and opened it: "The sweet elephant grass you dried yesterday has high sugar content in the stalks. If the leaves and stalks can be separated during the harvesting process, and the stalks can be processed separately, it can be made into high-energy roughage. Experimental data from a farm in Brazil showed that replacing 50.00% of the corn in the diet of fattened pigs with sugarcane juice would not reduce the growth rate of fattened pigs... The sugar content in sweet elephant grass is less than that of sugarcane, but not much less .”

Chen Mo glanced at Kang Si, and Kang Si nodded: "The test data on sweet elephant grass in the valley ranch shows that the sugar content of 100-day sweet elephant grass is as high as 18-20%. It is similar to the sugar content of sugar cane .It can be used as high-energy roughage for fattening. After harvesting, if the sugar content does not decay, it can always maintain this value, and it is quite good for sugar extraction.”

"That's because of the environment of the valley pasture. In the valley pasture, sweet elephant grass is planted in the gourd valley. The temperature difference between day and night is large in the gourd valley, and the accumulated sugar is more. But here, the temperature difference between day and night is relatively small, and the sweet elephant grass accumulates sugar. The speed is also slow. The sugar content in the sweet elephant grass stalks that were dried yesterday was only about 12 percent." Kang Si said.

Brett touched his chin and thought for a few seconds: "12% is enough. That is the sweet elephant grass that has been planted for 60 days. If it is 100 days old, the sugar content should reach about 15%. I wonder if there can be an additional process before the sweet elephant grass enters the drying tower. Squeeze the juice and sugar of the sweet elephant grass. The squeezed juice can be made into sugar nutrition, and the squeezed straw can be used as roughage...and then through the ratio It can be made into energy feed and used for fattening. In this way, a lot of corn can be saved, and the cost of feed will naturally be reduced a lot.”

Yunshan Ranch will plant sweet elephant grass on a large area. Sweet elephant grass is mainly used as dry storage feed, and the sugar in sweet elephant grass is not wasted in fact.

Squeezing out a part of the sugar before drying the sweet elephant grass can make the best use of the sweet elephant grass, but in this way, the Yunshan Feed Factory has more work.But there are also benefits. It can reduce the amount of ryegrass planted, and plant more sweet elephant grass and alfalfa...

"Try it first."

Speaking of feed, sow feed is all concentrated feed, and the price is relatively expensive.

The feed with the same ratio is not to mention the lowest price in the country, but in the South Island, it should be impossible to buy cheaper feed.

"It's too expensive. Pregnancy feed is 2800 yuan per ton." Bright said.

He knew that the approximate production cost of this feed would definitely not exceed 2000 yuan per ton, and selling it at 2800 yuan per ton was very profitable.

"You think you can bargain casually when buying vegetables in the vegetable market." Chen Mo rolled his eyes.

"Pregnancy feed is 2500 yuan per ton, lactation feed is 2800 yuan per ton, and ordinary sow feed is 1200 yuan per ton." Bright looked at Chen Mo: "Boss, you are the major shareholder of Hegu Animal Husbandry."

"Pregnancy feed is 3000 yuan per ton, and lactation feed is 3100 yuan per ton. Ordinary sow feed is 1500 yuan per ton. This is the price that was set early in the morning and will not change. At most...you are allowed to pay on credit first." Chen Mo's mouth twitched, Raising sows is very profitable.In the feeding process, in addition to sow feed, roughage will also be used. Based on the current quotation, the feed cost of a sow is at most about 2500 yuan a year.

The cost of raising sows in other farms is about 2800 yuan a year in feed costs.

"Credit account...meaning that the payment will be settled after the output is produced?"

"Closing after output, or half-yearly."

Brett's eyeballs rolled a few times: "Okay. That... using sweet elephant grass stalks to make high-energy feed, I really can study it carefully."

Hegu Animal Husbandry has built 30 breeding buildings, 15 buildings for raising pigs, and 15 buildings for raising sheep.

Each building raises 5000 breeding pigs and 7000 breeding sheep.

Breeding pigs need good feed, but sheep do not need particularly good feed. A mixture of silage and dry feed will do.

The breeding pigs in the breeding building are moving into the breeding building one after another, and the feed cost is nearly 2 million yuan a year.Not to mention this year, next year, they plan to slaughter 150 million suckling pigs from the breeding building.If this goal can be achieved, they will be able to recover the cost of the investment in the breeding building next year... Of course, this is just a plan, and it is hard to say whether there will be any specific changes.

Sign corn purchase contract and feed purchase contract...

Bright said: "Boss, isn't Yunshan District going to prepare a livestock futures trading center? Why hasn't it started yet. Hegu Animal Husbandry is facing financial pressure."

Yunshan Trading Center has live pig futures contracts, live cattle futures contracts, live sheep futures contracts, and various meat futures contracts.

If the trading center is in operation, companies like Hegu Dairy can now buy and sell piglets.The futures contract here is a physical delivery contract, and the physical delivery will be carried out as soon as the time of the futures contract is up... You can also buy and sell in the middle of the time, but there is no leverage.

The greatest significance of futures is to use trading systems such as open auction transactions in the market to form a market price that reflects the relationship between supply and demand in the market.At the same time, it can reduce the risk of farmers...

Coconut City has a plan to establish this trading center, but it is not known how long it will take until it is implemented.

(End of this chapter)