Corn and onion ghosts are not as good as recommended protection.

Original title: growing corn is afraid of falling prices, growing onions is afraid of "hype", Bayi Farm in Gansu Province--

Plant good forage grass to make animal husbandry "eat well"

On May 24, the New Holland self-propelled alfalfa harvester newly purchased by Jinnong Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative of State-run Bayi Farm in Gansu Province was put into operation. The harvester has the advantages of high speed and high efficiency, and has solved the task of harvesting alfalfa with buried drip irrigation of 4000 mu on the farm. (network photo: Zhang Guozhi, correspondent of Gansu Daily)

"I'm old, and now I can't grow it. I transferred the land to the farm last year, but I couldn't bear it at that time. Now I think that my children are out of town, and I can't do it any more. it's a good thing for you to think of growing alfalfa. At least there are fewer recommended pesticides, less pollution, and cows are healthy to eat. I order a jin of milk every day and drink it at ease." An old man from Bayi Farm in Gansu said.

Recently, the New Holland self-propelled alfalfa harvester newly purchased by the Jinnong Agricultural Machinery Professional Cooperative of Bayi Farm has solved the task of harvesting alfalfa with a buried eyedropper of 4000 mu on the farm.

"the working efficiency of the tractive harvester is low, the cutting width is small, and the stubble after harvest is uneven." The harvester said, "the self-walking harvester has the advantages of flexible turn, fast speed, neat stubble and grass after cutting, and is convenient for mechanical drying, which is not only conducive to the growth of the next crop of alfalfa, but also saves time and effort."

In March last year, Liu Zhongwen, secretary of the party committee of the farm, led a team to inspect the cattle breeding farm in Hutubi County and a farm near Urumqi to demonstrate that it is suitable for alfalfa varieties grown on Bayi Farm. After repeated discussion, we decided to choose Adina alfalfa. Adina is a new leafy alfalfa variety with high yield, high quality and good persistence bred by Cal/West Company of the United States, and its seeds are produced by Biqing Company of Canada. This variety has good resistance to the main diseases and insect pests of alfalfa, and has many branches, thin stems and multi-leaf characteristics, which is suitable for the requirements of high-yield and high-quality forage merchants.

The production practice shows that Adina is more resistant to mechanical compaction and has good regeneration ability, and can be cut 3-5 times a year. The farm not only selects the seeds carefully, but also uses the buried eyedropper technology. The adoption of this technology has not only realized the requirements of the whole mechanized operation of the farm and the integrated management of water and fertilizer, but also played an exemplary role in local agricultural farming by constantly applying new technology to crop irrigation in recent years. Compared with the traditional flood irrigation method, the average annual cost of buried dropper alfalfa planting is 1380 yuan per mu, which is 14% lower than that of flood irrigation mu. It is estimated that the average yield of alfalfa per mu during the three-year high yield period is 1.1%, which is 16% higher than that of flood irrigation mu, and the average annual benefit is 500 yuan, which is 150% higher than that of flood irrigation mu. In addition, it can increase the utilization rate of land by 15%, increase the utilization rate of fertilizer by 15%, save fertilizer by 15% and save water by 40%.

The old man Cheng, who is working in the alfalfa fields, said: "since the transfer of our land on the farm this year has given us a stable income from land rent, we still have time to do odd jobs in the fields to earn money. otherwise, I will worry about what else I can grow this year. I dare not plant corn. I can't sell it after planting it. Onions are 'gamblers'. After gambling overnight and losing money, we farmers want to be safe. Now it's best. The grass planted on the farm has also been operated on a large scale, the farm industry has slowly started, and our income is getting more and more year after year.

Grass industry and animal husbandry are an important part of the supply-side structural reform of agriculture. But at present, China's animal husbandry has a single variety, low output and lack of competitiveness. moreover, the contradiction between livestock and grass is prominent, the individual performance is low, there are many seasonal hurdles, the import of forage grass is as high as more than 100000 tons a month, and the combination of agriculture and animal husbandry is not close.

Bayi Farm is located in the "sickle bend" area, after the reduction of corn, workers are faced with the test of which kind of "substitute" to choose. The practice shows that the farm actively promotes the transfer of workers' land at the market price, unified management and the construction of forage planting base is the right choice.

As far as the objective situation of the farm in the "sickle bend" area is concerned, it is a correct way to implement "grain to feed", transform value-added through the belly on the spot, and maximize benefits. Relying on the construction of the ten thousand dairy cow base of Tianmu Dairy, the farm is based on expanding the industry and taking the lead in adjusting the industrial structure, which not only realizes the desire to increase the income of workers, but also further explores the way for enterprises to adapt to the market. (Zhang Guozhi)