Why do you lose money in cattle farming and what are the reasons for losing money?

Farming has the risk of investment needs to be cautious, this is the farming industry veterans want to enter the farming of newcomers to say the most words. I think we have heard too much pig and chicken loss of money, especially the decline of the dairy industry in 2014, but also to the friends who are thinking of raising cattle poured a pot of cold water. So, will raising cattle lose money? The following is a detailed analysis of several issues that affect the development of the cattle industry. First of all, it must be sure that cattle lose money is not impossible. Chinese people have an old saying "the family has ten thousand Guan with hair does not count", what does it mean? What does it mean? Since it is a living thing with hair, it will certainly get sick.

Particularly now in the environment, air, water, soil are subject to varying degrees of pollution, livestock feed, drinking water is not very safe. Coupled with the convenience of transportation, the circulation of people in the same industry frequent exchanges, will inevitably exacerbate the spread of livestock and poultry diseases. Avian influenza, foot-and-mouth disease, these common infectious diseases of livestock and poultry more people talk about. Livestock and poultry disease, the aggravation of labor, drug input costs, serious outbreaks will also cause large-scale deaths of livestock and poultry, so that farmers taste the bitter "even rotten" consequences, these things are not uncommon. Fluctuations in the price of aquaculture industry fluctuations on the farmers to lose money to make money may be greater than the impact of the epidemic. Price fluctuations are caused by seasonal demand, as well as a significant increase or decrease in the scale of farming, and even popular news.

For example, in recent years, the online circulation of the United States broiler eating hormones to grow six chicken legs and other information, the average consumer does not know the truth, to blackmail, often a certain industry in society will cause serious short-term damage. If the price of the pen did not meet expectations, farmers will often sell to wait and see. But the price can wait and see, the animal can not not eat, will undoubtedly add a lot of feed, labor costs. This kind of wait-and-see very often does not increase the benefits, but will make farmers lose more money. The risk of farming is obvious, cattle or chicken, pig, or bad, there is the possibility of losing money. However, please look at the community, what will do 100% not lose money? Except for the state-run enterprises to mix wages, basically no. Even in the private sector, there are many people who work in the private sector. Even in the private sector, there are a lot of work, there are a lot of malicious default, withholding wages. The two points above show that the problem with losing money on cattle is the outbreak of major epidemics and plummeting prices.

How to raise cattle can not lose money? The purpose of all of us to raise cattle is of course to make a profit, not to not lose money as the goal, then why write this title? In fact, this is written here just to give you a comparison, our country's largest farming industry must be counted as pig farming, chicken farming, we will take pig farming and chicken farming for comparison. Pigs, chickens can be said to be the most unstable farming industry, prices almost every year to experience ups and downs, the country's larger epidemics one after another, coupled with lean pork, dead pork, avian influenza and other popular news exaggerated reports, and more so that farmers complained of suffering. Even so, pigs and chickens still maintain the highest stock of domestic livestock and poultry, the national diet basically formed a relatively fixed demand. Demand is stable, the supply surge, the price is sure to decline, the supply is sharply reduced, the price is bound to surge. Like pigs and chickens this kind of fertility is super strong, short breeding cycle of the species is most likely to appear in the price of the big fluctuations, farmers are often in the bitter smile between the weeks, dizziness and brain swelling of the mixed life.

Even so, from the long-term benefits of these years, is also profitable. Raising cattle is also our traditional farming industry, the country has the habit of eating beef, the demand is huge needless to say. There is another point, cattle are robust and not easy to get sick, the use of drugs is naturally much less than chickens and pigs, coupled with the cattle are grass-based food, so from the safety and health considerations, people are more willing to eat beef. Another advantage of developing cattle breeding is that the reproduction rate of cattle is very slow. The pregnancy cycle of cattle is similar to that of human beings, which is about 280 days. It takes 10 months to conceive a baby and a few months of nursing until the calf is weaned before it can become pregnant again, which is a far cry from pigs and chickens, whose reproduction rates increase geometrically. So the cattle industry is unlikely to see a sudden surge in supply, and that's not physiologically permissible in cattle.

Maybe someone will say weren't there many dairy farmers in tears dumping fresh milk down the drain in 2014? This is indeed true, the reason out of those fixed milk collection of dairy enterprises suddenly put orders to foreign cheaper suppliers, so that dairy farmers caught by surprise, not the domestic fresh milk production surge. This would not have happened if these dairy farmers had not given their rice bowls to those companies entirely. Also, we're talking about regular beef cows here, not dairy cows, and none of the dairy farmers have made much money in previous years. Since supply hasn't skyrocketed, prices are unlikely to plummet. Also, the upfront cost of raising cattle is a bit higher than raising pigs and chickens, and the high threshold limits the entry of some retailers. From the recent ten years of cattle industry benefits from a comprehensive point of view, as long as the normal management, cattle want to lose money are difficult