Chapter 381: Cheese and Oil
Temuhule's family warmly welcomed Li Bin and his group.
In the afternoon, everyone started working. With the help of Temuhule, who was familiar with artificial insemination, Li Bin and others quickly performed artificial insemination on 375 cows.
After completing the artificial insemination contract, Temuhule took Li Bin and his party to visit several civilian food processing factories in Luotuo Town.
To the northwest of Luotuo Town, next to an artificial lake, is a modern factory. When Li Bin wore protective clothing and passed through the disinfection corridor, he smelled the milk in the air.
There are more than a dozen farms nearby, all breeding cows, and their milk will be sold to this factory for the production of light cream, butter, and cheese.
Li Bin glanced at the nameplate of the equipment and found that they were all equipment produced by snail industry.
When I came to the storage warehouse next to the factory, the round cheese was fermenting here. Temuhule took out a piercer, stabbed a piece of cheese, and then pulled out some cheese:
"I have a joint venture with a few friends in this factory. I just passed the cloud inspection certification six months ago."
Li Bin tasted it, and the milk taste was mixed with salt, and there was a hint of unique aroma of cheese, with the flavor of Mediterranean cheese: "No, the consumption power in China has been increasing in recent years, and the cheese market has good potential."
"Haha, compared to the specialization of Monan, Mobei still has a long way to go." Temuhule did not look down on everything.
Li Bin encouraged: "Cheese is your national food, so don't let the Western barbarians over there take over it."
To put it bluntly, cheese is a concentrated animal milk fermented product.
The ancient cheese originated from the nomadic peoples, mainly because the nomadic peoples have a large number of cattle and sheep, which are easy to obtain cow milk and goat milk. In order to preserve fresh milk, they would make cheese thousands of years ago.
The cheese from Xizhou is also one of the by-products brought by the invasion of the Northeast nomadic peoples.
In other words, cheese is definitely not the first to appear in West China.
As a traditional food in the northwest region, it is called milk tofu in Mongolia, and in Kerry, it is commonly known as milk cakes. The completely dry cheese is also called milk lumps.
However, Westerners used to have the right to speak international public opinion and were very good at packaging and marketing, such as Lafite wine, Gaul foie gras, Black Sea caviar, Iberian ham, green food avocado, etc., which can be regarded as a model of marketing.
Take the real situation of avocado. This food was junk food in the 20th century, and it was only through marketing that it turned into a "healthy green food".
In fact, avocados are not necessarily healthy, they are just a piece of plant fat. Does eating a large piece of "oil" mean health?
Once anything is consumed in large quantities, it is not necessarily a good thing for the human body.
What's more, the cultivation of avocados is done by those Central American gangs. Behind each avocado is the blood and sweat of farmers.
At the same time, the damage to the environment caused by avocado cultivation is also very important, because the growth of avocado trees is very water-consuming. On average, each avocado consumes 270 liters of fresh water, while the ripening of large tomatoes only requires about 24 liters.
Avocado trees are water pumps, which are comparable to fast-growing eucalyptus.
As a major in ecological breeding, Li Bin knows a lot of inside information in the industry, and many products are indeed IQ tax.
Temuhule smiled and nodded: "I have been working hard on this matter. Recently, the Dairy Association of Oriental Province plans to hold a dairy trade fair."
"I'm optimistic about you. As long as Mobei's dairy products are strictly controlled, you can definitely make a lot of money with their geographical advantages." Li Bin patted his shoulder.
"Haha, I'll lend you a good word."
The two came to the other side, which was a mixture of whey, light cream, butter, and the factory did not have equipment to deeply process these mixtures.
It’s not that the equipment cannot be bought, but that there is no need. The milk processed by small factories every day is limited, so it is obvious that it will be less than worth the effort to purchase refining equipment for this purpose.
Temuhule pointed to the storage tank and explained to him: "These mixtures can be sold to Deyi or Guangming, and their dairy factory specifically acquires this."
"Yes, our company has invested a lot in deep processing of dairy products in the past two years."
Suddenly, Temuhule asked in a low voice: "Brother Li, what do you think of the solid oil market?"
Li Bin was stunned, then asked with a smile: "What? Do you want to invest?"
"I have a classmate in Ulaanbaatar. He wanted to invest in a little animal husbandry, but he didn't know which direction was better, so he asked me to cooperate."
"Ulaanbaatar?" Li Bin immediately understood. He thought for a while: "Let me tell me! The market potential of solid oil is indeed not small. If he has something to do with it, he will still have considerable profits in the future if he gets a large amount of low-priced beef and sheep oil."
"My classmate is mainly worried that you do not have the habit of eating solid oil in China, and the sales may be difficult to open up." Temuhule asked hesitantly.
Li Bin shook his head: "If you want to defeat ABCD in oil monopoly in China, you must change the structure of edible oil, from the previous soybean vegetable oil to the same emphasis on vegetable oil and animal oil, and at the same time increase the diversification of vegetable oil varieties. And who told you that China is used to eating vegetable oil? In the past, lard was also very popular."
"Is this true? Then I'll feel relieved."
In fact, in the past two years, China has increased its production in lard, butter and lamb oil. For example, Fengmin Agriculture's slaughterhouse has kept all the pork roe and some of the fat that is too fat for oil refining.
Anyway, people like lean meat, and fat meat is not easy to sell. Using fat meat as a refining material can also reduce waste and increase the diversification of edible oil.
In the development of small varieties of vegetable oil itself, peanut oil, sunflower seed oil, flax oil and corn oil gradually dilute the proportion of soybean oil.
Originally, soybean imports are for oil extraction and bean dregs on the one hand, because bean dregs can be used as feed.
Nowadays, domestic feed production has been gradually increasing, and the comprehensive benefits of the imported feed are actually declining.
One of the very obvious economic principles exists among them. The oil pressing companies controlled by ABCD in China import a large amount of American soybeans. In addition to obtaining soybean oil and soy protein powder, there are also soybean dregs.
Whether these bean dregs are processed into feed by themselves or sold to feed processing companies, they are a huge profit for these oil pressing companies.
However, this model must meet a prerequisite, that is, the local self-produced feed is insufficient and the feed market price remains high.
The problem is that domestic feed prices have fallen a lot now, with a drop of 30 to 40%. The competitiveness of imported soybeans, bean dregs, has plummeted.
Even though ABCD has gradually lowered the landed soybean price, it still has not recovered the cold treatment of the feed market.
Compared with Lucia soybeans with zero tariffs, North American soybeans have suffered a great impact.
And this impact will continue until the Food Alliance completely regains the edible oil market and it will not come to an end.
Against this background, investing in animal oil in Mobei is actually a wise move. Eating vegetable oil in China is because vegetable oil is cheap.
If the price of animal oil drops to a relatively reasonable range and the income of people increases, the market potential of animal oil will be further released.
After Li Bin mentioned Temuhule a few words, he had lunch in Luotuo Town, and hurried back to Hulunbuir.
Inside the pickup truck, a news broadcast came from the radio:
Chapter completed!