Langzhong City, Sichuan Province: Why can a beef cattle earn 5300 yuan

Recently, a merchant from Kunming came to Wei Xu's beef farm in Tufangshan Village, Jincheng District, Langzhong City, and bought 29 beef cattle, all weighing more than 800kg, and paid Wei Xu 480000 yuan in cash on the spot. Wei Xu calculated, "excluding the cost, the 29 beef cattle sold made a net profit of 153700 yuan, with an average net profit of 5300 yuan per cow."

Xian Chengwei, director of the Animal Husbandry Bureau of Langzhong City, said: "it is a miracle that the profits of beef cattle sold by other beef farms in Langzhong City are generally about 1000 yuan, and that of beef cattle raised by Wei Xu is more than five times higher."

Wei Xu said that the secret to the high profit of his beef cattle is that he adopted the model of "recommended raising cattle" to achieve a circular economy and gained more added value after the extension of the industrial chain.

Wei Xu, 46, returned to his hometown early last year, invested more than 500,000 yuan to build a cattle farm, and bought back 36 Simmental and Charolais calves for raising in the first batch. In order to start a business smoothly, Wei Xu visited and studied in other provinces many times and skillfully mastered the scientific cattle raising and feed processing technology.

After returning from school, he transferred 180 mu of wasteland and planted forage grasses such as yellow bamboo grass, sweet elephant grass, Sudan grass, Guimu No. 1, as well as Mexican corn and forage corn, etc., and collected corn stalks inside and outside the township. After mechanical crushing, herbage bacteria and 1% salt water fermentation were added, and silage was sealed in plastic bags with a content of about 90 kg each as cattle feed. Wei Xu feeds each cow with grass and feed twice a day, each time 35 kg, each bull has an average monthly growth of more than 50 kg, and each cow has a monthly growth of more than 30 kg.

Seeing that the feed created by Wei Xu has a good fattening effect on beef cattle, other beef cattle farms have also signed a sales contract with him for 10, 000 bags of feed, with an annual output value of more than 500000 yuan.

In order to deal with fermented cow dung, Wei Xu also planted organic vegetables, in which earthworms were used to feed poultry and fish, thus realizing circular ecological farming on the farm.