With the rapid increase in the price of corn and other feed, the entire dairy farming industry is in a much tougher situation. In Shijiazhuang City, Hebei Province, dairy farmers generally report that raising dairy cows has no profit at all. This year's situation is basically a stable loss.

Shijiazhuang City is a dairy breeding city in Hebei Province. Currently, the number of dairy cows has reached 310,000. Some dairy farmers said that in recent years, the price of milk has remained relatively stable, and they have remained below 3 yuan per kilogram. However, labor costs and feed costs have been rising year after year, especially this year.

In a breeding area in Nantongye Village, Tongye Town, Luquan City, the milk farmer Feng Jishu told the “Economic Information Daily” reporter that the most expensive milk purchase price was in the previous winter, one kilogram was 3 yuan. In August last year, it remained at 2.95 yuan a kilogram, which has now dropped to 2.9 yuan a kilogram. Dairy prices have been on the decline year after year, but feed prices have risen "in a rocket," and this year's feed prices are the highest in recent years.

Feng Jishu said that compared with the same period last year, this time corn was 1.12 yuan a pound, and now it is 1.2 yuan; feed was 1.1 yuan last year, is now 1.19 yuan, and is still going up; Qingcun feed was 5 cents a pound last year, This year it rose to 8 points; the biggest increase was soybean meal, which last year was 2.1 yuan a kilogram, which rose to 3.2 yuan this year.

“The price of a pound of milk is not as good as the price of a bottle of mineral water.” Li Lianchao, a dairy farmer of the Xuli dairy farm in Tang County, said with emotion.

Li Lianchao raised eight cows and produced about 100 kilograms of milk per day. He gave an account to the “Economic Information Daily” reporter: At present, the purchase price of residential milk is 2.9 yuan/kg, not counting labor costs, and the entire feed cost has reached 2.8 yuan/kg. “One month down is change. With a full amount of money, you can earn less if you don't have trouble, and lose money if you get sick."

“Now it is not as good as one year for dairy cows. Many dairy farmers here can’t keep up. The cooperative had 2,700 cows in March 2010 and it’s now less than 2,300. Many people have the intention to sell cows, but again Do not know how to survive after selling cows, the following can not be determined, it will always be right." Xinle City, Luan Town, animal husbandry, professional dairy cooperatives Fan Libo said.

The situation of dairy farmers exiting is also more common. In the dairy farming area of ​​Tongye Town, Luquan City, there are a lot of cowsheds that have been “cattle free.” Li Jianping, a dairy farmer in the district, said that the entire district had the highest milk output of 20 tons a day, and now it has less than 10 tons.

Why the dairy industry does not make money or lose money for a long time. In the interview, many dairy farmers believed that after the Sanlu incident in Shijiazhuang, as large numbers of small companies died, several large companies monopolized the acquisition of milk sources, making dairy farmers in an extremely disadvantageous position. Enterprises could arbitrarily adjust without regard to their interests. Milk purchase price. This has led to a one-time increase in cattle-raising costs, and milk prices have not risen or even dropped.

However, dairy companies do not agree with this statement. Wei Lihua, general manager of Junlebao Dairy Co., Ltd., said that compared with foreign countries, the domestic fresh milk purchase price is not low, even exceeding the foreign purchase price.

Yuan Yunsheng, Secretary-General of the Hebei Dairy Association, said that the impact of foreign milk powder on the domestic market is very large, so the purchase price of inborn fresh milk cannot be raised any more. The increase in the cost of raising cattle will inevitably increase the number of dairy farmers. Profits will be reduced or even lost. Some farmers, especially small farmers, will withdraw from the industry.

Wei Lihua said that the reason why there is a large price difference between foreign countries and domestic ones is that the main reason is the difference in the varieties of dairy cows and the gap in the level of farming. At present, the average yield of dairy cows in China is about 5 tons per year, while the yield of Israeli dairy cows abroad can reach 10.5 tons. The high cost of farming has resulted in low yields for dairy farmers.

Many dairy farmers in the interview also reflected that at present, they are most troubled by the lack of aquaculture technology. Most dairy farmers lack expertise and cow disease is difficult to control. Once the cow is sick, in addition to the cost of treatment, it is generally impossible to pay for milk for 10 days, which makes the already stretched dairy farmers even worse.

Yuan Yunsheng said that from January to June of this year, China imported nearly 300,000 tons of powdered milk from New Zealand, which actually formed a considerable impact on the domestic dairy industry. Because of the substitution of foreign milk powder, a large number of dairy farmers will not affect the market temporarily. In the long run, however, the domestic dairy industry has the risk of following the soybean industry in the wake of the dramatic increase in imported milk powder.

He suggested that if we want to achieve the healthy development of China's dairy industry, in the long run, the adjustment of the industry structure is imperative. We must adopt government guidance, corporate price leverage, and other methods to achieve large-scale dairy cattle breeding. In the near future, the establishment of a milk source base and the development of its own milk source will be the focus of the dairy industry. At present, the proportion of milk-owned milk sources in China is about 30%, and the target of the “Twelfth Five-year Plan” is more than 50%.