Going to our local feed market at noon to buy sheep feed once again surprised me.
A pound of coarsely crushed cornmeal is 1.6 yuan, a pound of bran is 0.9 yuan, and a pound of lamb fertility is 2.5 yuan. In the face of such high feed prices, the cost of raising sheep for our farmers has skyrocketed, and many people have said that they are almost unable to bear it.
While feed prices have soared, sheep prices have fallen sharply, which is not worse. So, will sheep breeding still make money in 2022? As a small tailed cold sheep farmer, help everyone to analyze this problem from many aspects.
For those who raise sheep at low cost or have the conditions to graze sheep, although the profit of raising sheep will be reduced, they can still make money.
Looking at whether sheep can still make money in 2022, it is mainly considered from the two aspects of breeding costs and breeding profits. For those farmers who can raise sheep forage and can be self-sufficient, unless the sheep price falls within the cost price, like the normal sheep price falling market, although the impact is there, it will not hurt the bones.
We can see that many rural free-range farmers raise sheep at low or zero cost. In this case, it should also be emphasized that raising sheep cannot make money, which is self-deception. Sheep mainly eat grass, and then feed a small amount of refined feed, rural corn straw, wheat straw, peanut straw and other crop straw can be seen everywhere, farmers can produce and collect their own, basically do not have to spend money to buy.
The cost of wild grazing is lower, like the pasture areas with better pastures, the sheep do not even need to be fed, and the zero-cost sheep breeding model is basically realized. In Inner Mongolia, Qinghai, Tibet and other agricultural and pastoral areas, some people raise thousands of sheep, and they usually do not pay much attention to the rise and fall of sheep prices. Because the cost of grazing is low, as long as the number is large, there is no worry about not making money.
Small-scale farmers who rely on spending money to buy grass feed and hire breeders to raise sheep basically have little way out, and it is recommended to give up early.
I have also met this type of farmer: 100 to 200 sheep in captivity, grass feed is all bought by spending money, busy doing other things all year round, and do not put their minds on raising sheep at all, even the breeding management of the sheep is also hired by breeders.
This concept of raising sheep may be able to earn two dates at the peak of sheep prices, but once the price of sheep falls sharply, the dream of making money by hiring people to raise sheep will be shattered. High-priced forage feed costs and high labor costs, coupled with not doing it yourself, the breeding management will certainly be a lot of slack, the overall calculation is not enough to make ends meet, so it loses the meaning of raising sheep, it is better to give up as soon as possible.
Some people want to seize the decline in sheep prices to introduce seeds into the industry, but this practice is still difficult to make money, as for the reasons, the following slowly help friends analyze.
There are many friends who still expect to introduce breeding sheep to make money after the decline in sheep prices, but after careful consideration, it is difficult to make money in this way. Despite the low cost of introduction, the price of forage feed is inflated, and lambs that have successfully bred cannot sell well. Among other things, from these two reasons alone, it is not the best time to enter the industry.
It is impossible to raise sheep to earn money, and only after returning to the capital can you be eligible to talk about how much money you have made. I have combined my own actual sheep raising experience and other people's sheep raising experience to do research and investigation in this regard: the normal sheep return period is between 1.5 and 3 years, the return period of free-range sheep and semi-captive and semi-free sheep is significantly shortened, and the corresponding return period of captive sheep is also extended due to the high cost of breeding.
In the next few years, we can not accurately judge its rise and fall trend, which is equivalent to "pony crossing the river" and trying in a constant unknown space. This is in case the price of sheep falls even more than it is now, and at that time even the profit will be lost.
2022 is destined to be a "tough year" for all of us sheep farmers. Sheep prices are falling, the price of forage feed is inflated, if you can still keep the sheep raising business to earn a good income, it will take a hundred times more effort, but also have excellent sheep breeding conditions. But for some sheep farmers, they have lost the opportunity to raise sheep to make money, and there is no need to continue to "stubbornly".