This auction really opened Lao Wang's eyes.
The last livestock auction I attended was generally more official, with a host, white gloves, and a variety of livestock products.
This time, I am hosting my own auction, including ranchers, cowboys, parents and children, etc., ranging from 70- and 80-year-olds to 7- and 8-year-old children.
The reason why children appeared at the auction was because a child raised a few lambs and also brought the auction. He said that the performance of his family's pasture in the last breeding season was not good and he wanted to sell the lambs to buy lambs for his father. Raise money.
Lao Wang was deeply moved when he saw it. He specially took a photo and showed it to the little Lolita. Look, what kind of realization is this? The gap between the two children is too big, other people's children are just different from our own naughty children.
He took photos of several lambs, but he didn’t know the specific number. In the end, he paid 8,000 yuan to get the lambs. The audience applauded him, and people around him shook hands and congratulated him.
This kind of auction is relatively amateur, but Wang Bo thinks it is better than the officially organized auction.
The amateur he meant was that the host was amateur. In fact, the on-site facilities were very professional. The small auditorium covered an area of thousands of square meters. It contained an auction venue, livestock sheds and breeding fences, because the person in charge of auctioning sheep was the rancher or cowboy himself. So I know more about the situation and answer all my questions.
The first auction lasted four hours, and by the end of it everyone was so hungry that their stomachs were growling.
Wang Bo thought it was almost over, but Thomas smiled and said to him: "This is just the beginning. Don't underestimate such a country auction, the scale is not small."
Starting in the afternoon, more sheep arrived at the scene. There were various agricultural vehicles parked in the parking lot outside the auditorium, probably hundreds of them, which was particularly spectacular.
Wang Bo came back after having lunch with Thomas and saw some more mobile breeding fences in the backyard of the small auditorium, with various sheep and alpacas inside.
Seeing his surprise, Thomas smiled and said: "This is not surprising. Alpacas are also treated as sheep in the pasture. Are you interested? I remember that the last time you attended the auction, you came specifically for the alpacas, right? "
Wang Bo shook his head and said: "I was interested last time, forget it this time."
There were people queuing up at the entrance behind the auditorium, and a girl was registering in front of the computer. There was a veteran cowboy next to her who was checking the information to make sure it was correct.
Thomas saw that Wang Bo was unfamiliar with such an auction, so he introduced it to him: "According to your Chinese language, these sheep have already been owned before the auction. What sheep do you need and what price do you need? Everything is ready now.”
Not only sheep will be auctioned, but also sheep-raising equipment and pasture.
The auction in the afternoon is more formal than in the morning. The morning is a family time, and in the afternoon everyone returns to practical applications and begins to follow the road of capitalism.
There were two girls handing out brochures. The work was very rough, and it was obvious that it was made on the fly, because there was a printer under the auction table that was printing out paper.
The auction was a bit chaotic in the morning, but the situation improved a lot in the afternoon, and the auction items appeared in order.
Wang Bo looked at it, and the order was as follows: fattening sheep, culling ewes, growing ewes, culling rams, breeding rams, lambs and disabled sheep.
The auction was carried out like a horse-race, and sheep were constantly being dared to enter the breeding pen, and then quickly rushed to the scene, and the owners followed up to bid.
Because most of these ranchers know each other personally and know how the sheep work in advance, there is no need to deceive when bidding, just say what you want.
Thomas asked: "What can you tell from the current auction?"
Wang Bo observed it carefully and said: "Well, the most fattening sheep and the least breeding rams participated in the auction, which shows that sheep farming is still very popular in the local area, and no one is ready to sell the breeding sheep and quit."
"Then what?"
Wang Bo said: "If anything else, the price of pasture is relatively high this year, exceeding the psychological price of ranchers, and the profit margin is too low. We need to reduce the number of fattening sheep and reduce investment to avoid difficulties."
"Any more?"
Wang Bo thought about it carefully and shook his head: "No, what else is there?"
Thomas smiled and said, "You've seen a lot of things. I didn't expect you, as the mayor, to be so concerned about animal husbandry. But you haven't seen enough."
"For example, there are many and mixed sheep varieties in the auction, and the individual differences between the groups are very large. This shows that the local sheep breeding industry is still in its initial stage, and everyone has not reached a consensus on which sheep to breed better."
Wang Bo suddenly realized that he did not see this because of his lack of experience. In addition, he used Chinese thinking to consider this issue.
In the eyes of the Chinese, eggs cannot be put in one basket, and the same applies to breeding. Try to raise as many varieties as possible. If the market prospects of a certain variety are not good, there are other options.
New Zealanders don't think so. A mature market is a unified market. Everyone breeds the same species, so the matching of breeding, treatment, forage equipment and breeding tools will be higher.
"Kulau is a traditional farming and animal husbandry area, but large-scale sheep breeding has not long since emerged. Because the locals are mainly of English and French descent, they like to eat beef but not mutton. This time, a sheep auction was specially organized, and there were ranchers who worked hard with each other. significance."
Thomas smiled and said: "You may think this is meaningless, but if I were a black-hearted rancher, I would like to have fewer competitors. Then at such an auction, I can find someone to buy some inferior sheep breeds at high prices. Guess, if What will be the consequences if I do this?”
Wang Bo sighed: "People will think that these low-quality sheep breeds are the most popular, and then they will flock to breed them wrongly."
"right."
Wang Bo listened to the price and found that fattening sheep usually weighed between 50 and 80 pounds and were sold for takeout, and the price was between 150 and 250 yuan.
Compared with the sheep produced at Sunset Ranch, this price is simply the Mariana Trench price, but Thomas said that this price is already 15% higher than last year, which shows how cheap ordinary lamb in New Zealand is.
To be honest, if it hadn't been for Thomas' introduction, Wang Bo would have never imagined that sheep breeding is not very popular here in Koolau, because New Zealand sheep are almost the business card of this country's livestock industry.
New Zealand has a well-developed animal husbandry industry and is the economic foundation of the country. The output value of animal husbandry accounts for 80% of the total agricultural output value. The population engaged in animal husbandry also accounts for 80% of the agricultural population. The export volume of mutton and dairy products ranks first in the world. , wool export volume ranks second in the world, and crude wool production accounts for 40% of the world's total output!
He checked the reason online and found that the sheep breeding industry in Koolau is indeed underdeveloped. The main breeding here is cattle, deer, chickens and ducks. The reason why sheep were not raised in the past is that there are too many sheep in New Zealand. The locals believe that the sheep industry is profitable. The space is too small.
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