Understanding the Mistake of "Feeding Cost" Effectively Reducing Pig Raising Cost

Core hint: when pig prices are in the doldrums, many pig farmers deliberately choose feed or premix with low price and poor quality, or replace soybean meal with a large number of rapeseed meal and cottonseed meal, thinking that this can save pig costs and reduce losses. in fact, this is likely to be counterproductive. Why this phenomenon occurs, the main reason is the misunderstanding of the relevant concept of "feeding cost", thinking that all the input is the feeding cost, but not necessarily, then what is the real feeding cost? Please see the following interpretation. In how to reduce the cost of feeding measures, many people have made serious mistakes, what they do is counterproductive, and the result is counterproductive. What is more regrettable is that most people suffer great losses but are unaware of it. instead, they think that they are unlucky and that the bad market leads to losses, and focus on pig prices, wasting energy and time on things beyond their control. it is getting farther and farther away from the goal of raising pigs efficiently and healthily. The main reason is the misunderstanding of the relevant concepts of "feeding cost", which leads to a series of improper measures. Therefore, when the pig price is low, how to effectively reduce the "feeding cost" and maintain a relatively ideal profit state, we must first thoroughly correct some wrong traditional conceptions, and fully and correctly understand a series of scientific concepts and technical measures related to "feeding cost" in the pig industry, so as to achieve the efficient pig raising goal of "selling more pigs, selling blockages early and selling good pigs". Input is not the cost, but output is the main factor that affects the cost. Literally in Chinese, "cost" is the cost of doing something, and the key lies in getting it done. The definition of cost in Modern Chinese Dictionary (revised in 2002) is that the core of all the expenses incurred in the production of a product lies in "product". The definition of "cost" in the term "cost management system" compiled by the China cost Association is more accurate: the resource price paid or should be paid for the added value of the process and the effectiveness of the result is the premise. By the same token, for the pig industry, it must be an "input" linked to the goods produced in order to be called "feeding cost". Therefore, the "input" of how much money is spent in the production process is not the cost, but only one of the elements of the cost composition. The input must be linked to the output (commodity) in order to calculate the cost. The correct cost expression should be: input / output = cost. We are generally used to talking about the cost of raising a sow in a year, which is actually a misconception. Because the purpose of raising sows is to produce healthy piglets, piglets are valuable output, and the real effective cost can only be calculated on the basis of output. For example, raising a sow costs about 4000 yuan a year, which is not a cost, but just the input that must be paid to produce piglets. If the sow has not been in estrus for a year, or repeatedly infertile after estrus, or miscarried or stillborn after conception, and has not produced a marketable commodity-pig fry, then the sow has no output in the past year, let alone added value, and can only be counted as consuming an input of 4000 yuan. There is no cost to speak of. If the sow produces 15 healthy weaned piglets in a year, the feeding cost of each piglet is 267yuan (4000 / 15), or if the sow produces 25 piglets in the same time, the feeding cost of each piglet can be reduced to 160yuan (4000 / 25). Therefore, under the condition that "input" remains unchanged, "output" determines how many valuable goods "cost" output is the main factor affecting "feeding cost". Therefore, most people think that the traditional idea that "reducing input" can "reduce costs" urgently needs to be corrected. Focusing attention and effective measures on "output" is an effective way to "reduce feeding costs", and the significance of "selling more pigs" can be realized. Market pig price and feeding cost are not related to two independent events in the minds of most pig farmers, often compare the market pig price with the feeding cost. When pig prices are high, they are willing to increase investment and want to use all good things in order to make more profits; when pig prices are low, they will try their best to reduce investment and save as much as possible, thinking that this can reduce feeding costs. In fact, after a little analysis, we can see that pig prices are determined by the balance between supply and demand in the market and producers cannot change them. The feeding cost is mainly restricted by production efficiency, which, as mentioned above, is determined by the ratio of input to output, is the inevitable result of the actual operation of producers, and has nothing to do with the relationship between supply and demand of products in the market. therefore, the two are independent events. For example, at present, when the price of fattened pigs is 10.50 yuan per kilogram, many owners say that they have reached the break-even point, and some pig farms have even lost money. However, there are a small number of owners such as Mr. Xia Baixin in Jiangsu Yixing (200 ~ 4000 sows) who can still make a profit of 2 yuan per kilogram, and each fattening pig can earn about 250 yuan. The most fundamental reason why the feeding benefits of different pig farms are so different is not the difference in pig prices, but the difference in output (production performance), which leads to great differences in feeding costs. The former may only produce about 15 commercial pigs (PSY) for slaughtering each year, while the latter will take about half a year to gradually change the concept, adjust the feeding and management measures, improve the health status of the pig herd and improve the production performance PSY to 20 or more. In fact, experienced pig owners should understand that the feeding cost has nothing to do with the market price of the product, but also a dynamic indicator. In the same pig farm, although the germplasm and the feed, vaccine and medicine used are the same, however, due to the differences in the layout of the pig house, the level of feeding management and other factors, the production performance of each pig house is different, resulting in different feeding costs. The cost of raising animals and producing still life are two different concepts. Many pig owners have a serious misunderstanding of "raising cost". A very important reason is that they confuse the cost concept of "raising animals" with "producing still life". The concept of cost of producing industrial products (still life, such as formula feed) is relatively simple and clear, and there is a linear correlation between input and cost. On the other hand, the relationship between the input and cost of producing animal products (such as livestock and poultry) is a complex dynamic function, and its correlation coefficient varies greatly due to the change of time and space, which depends on the existence of a "dynamic cost" of "maintenance needs" in the process of raising animals. assuming that the health status of animals has not changed, products that meet the same market specifications will pay an extra "dynamic cost" for one more day. Take raising commercial pigs as an example, when the body weight reaches 120 kg, if you raise it for one more day, you will have to pay an extra 6 ~ 8 yuan in feed cost. this can be roughly understood as the "dynamic cost" of "maintenance" that must be paid in order to make up for the slow growth in the previous stage. If effective measures can be taken to reduce the feeding time of commercial pigs with a market weight of 120 kg from 180 days to 150 days, then the feeding cost of each pig will actually be reduced by 180 yuan to 240 yuan, in other words, without deducting the part of input that may be increased, this is the extra profit earned by the pig farm owner per pig. Correctly judging whether "input" is effective or not is the key to the success or failure of raising pigs. As mentioned above, the basic goal of raising pigs efficiently and healthily is to "sell more pigs, sell pigs early and sell good pigs". However, if pig farming does not take effective measures, it is difficult to get additional returns without increasing effective investment. In production practice, what often makes it difficult for pig farmers is not whether they are willing to invest or how much, but how to judge whether the input is effective, that is to say, which should be invested and which should not be invested. Because the effective investment is the investment in the cause, the purpose of the investment is to pursue the return, while the ineffective investment can only be counted as consumption, which is not only useless, but also harmful in many cases. For example, pig diseases have been complicated in recent years, and many people find it difficult to raise pigs, but many of the problems are caused by the abuse of vaccines and veterinary drugs by owners. In addition, when pig prices are in the doldrums, many owners deliberately choose feed or premix with low price and poor quality, or replace soybean meal with a large amount of rapeseed meal and cottonseed meal, thinking that this can save costs and reduce losses. in fact, this is probably counterproductive. Because when the input is reduced, resulting in a decline in production performance, not only will not reduce the feeding cost, but will increase the cost. Boss Wu of Fanling Pig Farm in Shaoguan, who was not very familiar with the pig industry, recently said with great pride that the current pig price has put a lot of pressure on the pig owners around him, and many people are already on the verge of losing money. His 600-head stocking sow farm, which mainly sells pig fry, still has a net profit of about 200000 yuan a month. No wonder he just took over a sow farm that lost money year after year three years ago. After a short period of 3 years of careful management, without additional investment, it has grown to the scale of 2500 stocked sows in the way of snowball. The successful experience of Boss Wu fully shows that the renewal of ideas is a prerequisite for the success of his career, and there have been numerous similar cases in recent years. To sum up, the pig feeding cost has nothing to do with the market pig price, whether any measure is adopted or not depends on whether the input-output ratio is cost-effective, in which the influence factors of pig price can almost be ignored. Practical experience shows that when the pig price is high, using "good materials" (including feed and various materials) can make more money, and when the pig price is low, you can lose less or even no loss; on the contrary, you will make less money when the pig price is high, and you will lose more money when the pig price is low. Therefore, if pig farmers want to obtain good economic benefits, no matter what the pig price is, they should always adopt measures that are in line with scientific principles and are indeed cost-effective. From: China Animal Husbandry and Veterinary Daily-good article, benefited. -- learned.-- good article, benefit? -- good article. I got it. -- thoroughly correct some wrong traditional concepts, comprehensively and correctly understand a series of scientific concepts and technical measures related to "feeding cost" in the pig industry, in order to achieve the goal of "selling more pigs, selling blockages early, and selling good pigs". Good article! Digest it well. It is suggested that the moderator add the essence. -- Yes, a good article points out a misunderstanding of today's farmers-- benefits are not saved from pigs, and health is not raised with medicine. This article is quite innovative and corrects my previous thinking. I think this argument can be learned by the business elite who make high-grade feed. They are more forceful about their words-they are well written, and I wonder how many pig farmers will calculate the cost? For example, the piglet cost of different PSY-the point of view is biased, I partly agree with it, and some of it is even very different from the actual situation! Input is not a cost, incomprehensible and difficult to accept. The profit and loss point of the pig farm is related to 80% of the feed cost.