I collect gold fingers in the heavens

Chapter 268 Wagyu
Different populations (varieties or strains), the offspring of individual crosses are often better than the average value of their parents in terms of vigor, growth vigor and production performance to a certain extent, this phenomenon is called heterosis.

Crossbreeding can change the genetic makeup and rapidly improve the performance of low-yielding cattle.

The role of cattle hybridization is not only heterozygous effect to produce heterosis, but also genetic recombination to create new types of livestock, which are generally used for breed improvement or breeding of new breeds (strains).

Hybridization can significantly increase the individual yield, shorten the feeding cycle, reduce the cost of raising cattle, and improve the economic effect.

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It took two years to build a ranch, buy cows, and invest hundreds of millions of dollars, and finally these two hybrid cattle breeds were produced.

When Wu Siyuan handed over the detailed report of the two hybrid cattle breeds to Wang Fan, Wang Fan was so excited that his eyes almost filled with enthusiasm.

Finally, finally the results.

In the past two years, he has been throwing money into it continuously, and Wu Siyuan has thrown all his net worth into it, but it has not been able to produce economic effects, and it has been shown as a constant loss.

Although it is said that Wang Fan's family has a background, if he burns money like this, he will be under a lot of pressure.

However, now it's finally time for the clouds to open and the moon to shine.

And what I saw was not a piece of gold, but a gold mine.

He visited the Inner Mongolia ranch in person, and after seeing the performance of the two hybrid cattle breeds with his own eyes, he immediately used his personal connections to report the situation, which immediately attracted the attention of high-level officials.

The country has always attached great importance to food.

Soon, the people above came all the way to this [Yongyuan Ranch] to investigate.

In Wu Siyuan's ranch, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars to build, they saw the real situation of [Chinese Anxi Cattle] on the spot, and also saw the modernization, intensification, mechanization, and refined breeding process of Yongyuan Ranch.

The efficiency of this kind of large-scale farming is unmatched by those free-range cattle traders, and it is also highly resistant to risks.

It can be said that aside from [Chinese Anxi Cattle], the management method of this ranch has its own unique features and is worth visiting.

A member of the ministry even told Wu Siyuan and others that seeing this ranch is like seeing the direction of the country's future animal husbandry development, and it is worth learning from other colleagues.

All in all, the big leaders were very satisfied with their inspection this time, and they praised Wu Siyuan and even Wang Fan a lot.

Soon after these big leaders left, there were relevant security personnel to protect the entire Yongyuan Ranch.

Beef can go out.

But live cows and related items, not even cow urine, can leave the ranch.

The country has obviously learned the experience and lessons of Japanese Wagyu and does not want this kind of thing to happen to them.

Although Japanese Wagyu is well-known internationally, it can even be said to be the number one beef brand.

But in Japan, the history of eating beef is only more than 60 years.

In ancient times, Japan did not eat beef, or it was not allowed to eat beef.

At that time, cattle were an important productive force. In order to protect farming, Emperor Tenmu of Japan promulgated the "Meat Prohibition Order" in 675 AD, that is, animals such as cattle, horses, dogs, apes, and chickens were forbidden from April to September every year.

Coupled with the influence of Japanese culture, people who eat meat are considered unclean, so most of the Japanese have not eaten beef for a long time.

This situation did not change until the Meiji period.

In terms of system, the Meiji government promoted meat as an important means of improving Japanese people's physique and civilization. In 1872, Emperor Meiji took the lead in carrying a chopstick of beef, so eating beef began to become a trend in Japan.

According to a historical record, the Japanese ate more than 1879 cattle in 3, and the supply of beef was seriously in short supply.

Japan’s native cattle breeds are not used for meat. They are small in size and low in meat production. In order to increase production, the Japanese government began to encourage the introduction of excellent foreign cattle breeds to crossbreed with domestic cattle to breed large-bodied cattle with high meat production. High-quality beef cattle with short feeding period and obvious frost.

The term [Wagyu] was born at this time, mainly to distinguish it from foreign cattle species.

However, as a result of excessive hybridization, the frost gene characteristic of native cattle has been gradually diluted. The Japanese government quickly took measures after discovering this sign.

After systematically sorting out various cattle breeds, in the [-]s, four breeds of [Black Wagyu], [Brown Wagyu], [Short Horn Wagyu] and [No Horn Wagyu] were established as Wagyu, and strictly prohibited These breeds are then crossed with exotic cattle breeds to ensure the purity of their bloodlines.

Although Japanese Wagyu cattle are bred and bred with foreign cattle breeds, in order to maintain the rarity of this precious commodity, the Japanese government issued a ban in 1988 to prohibit the export of live Wagyu cattle!

It’s just that Japan’s domestic wagyu farming was not strong at that time, but the market demand was strong, which provided opportunities for other countries.

In the 1970s, Canada and the United States shipped Wagyu sperm and cattle breeds in the name of scientific research, which first led to Japanese Wagyu breeding overseas.

But what really made the Japanese breeders itch was that in 1997, the Westholme Wagyu organization led by Chris Walker of the United States imported dozens of live black-haired Wagyu cattle and their genes to the United States through ET Japan (ETJ).

Within a few years, animal laboratories in Iowa and Texas produced thousands of purebred Japanese Wagyu cattle and sent them to farms in New South Wales, Australia for breeding.

Although Takeda Shogo, the farmer who sold live Wagyu to the United States, was removed from the Japan Wagyu Registration Association, it was too late. The United States has already established a huge "Wagyu family" in the United States, and exported it to several countries and regions in the following years. area.

Today, Wagyu families have spread across farms in dozens of countries.

Japan's direct or indirect losses in this incident may exceed billions of dollars.

The so-called lesson from the past is the teacher of the future.

The top leaders of the country do not want to see this kind of situation happen.

And it is different from the low output of Japanese Wagyu, although the unit price is high, but the overall value is not big.

The [Chinese Anxi Cattle] bred by Wu Siyuan has the advantages of strong adaptability, fast growth, and low breeding cost. It is not difficult to replace the dominance of domestic and foreign breeds of cattle in time, and it may even be able to counterattack the international market.

The international beef market is much larger than the domestic beef market, which is a trillion-dollar market.

If you can get a share of it, the economic effect is not comparable to billions of dollars, at least tens of billions of dollars, or even hundreds of billions of dollars.

With such a large piece of fat in front of it, the country does not want to be bitten away by people from abroad.

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