As grain on the mainland has come out of the planned economy and entered the management of the grain market, grain has completely become a commodity, freely entering the market, and being regulated and controlled by the laws governing market operation.
In recent years, due to the excessively low market grain prices, peasants have not been able to make money growing grain at all, and grain growers have been unable to feed themselves or their families at all, with the result that a very large number of peasants are unwilling to cultivate and cultivate land, and a large amount of abandoned land has appeared in the rural areas.
Therefore, the state has introduced many policies to benefit the people, such as various subsidies for growing grain, encouraging and supporting farmers to grow and sell grain, produce grain, and ensure national food security and rural economic development.
Wheat is one of the important food varieties of the mainlanders, the total consumption is second only to the rice variety, and it is the staple food product of the vast majority of the population north of the Yangtze River on the mainland, with a total annual demand of trillions of tons, a huge quantity.
Wheat is produced in the vast area north of the Yangtze River Basin, with a wide production area, and the main producing areas include Shaanxi, Hubei, Henan, Anhui, Jiangsu, Shandong, Shanxi, Hebei and other regions, and the annual output is very amazing.
In recent years, in order to control the market grain price and protect the economic benefits of farmers planting wheat will not decline, the state has fully implemented the minimum purchase price system for wheat, and since 2021, the minimum protective price of wheat has risen for 4 consecutive years, and the purchase price of third-class wheat has risen from 1.14 yuan a catty to 1.17 yuan a catty in 2023, and in 2024, on the basis of last year's minimum purchase price, the purchase price of third-class wheat has increased by 0.01 yuan to 1.18 yuan a catty.
In fact, this minimum purchase price of wheat firmly binds the purchase price of wheat-producing areas to this minimum purchase price, and it is very difficult for the market price of wheat to rise by a large margin above the minimum purchase price of wheat, thus restricting and controlling the current price of wheat in the wheat market.
According to the current minimum protection price of wheat market purchase, the yield of farmers is about 1,000 kg/mu for each mu of high-quality and high-yield wheat planted, while the wheat output of general farmers is mostly between 700~800 kg/mu.
Therefore, the highest yield of each mu of wheat is 1,000 catties, the highest output value is 1,180 yuan/mu, and the net profit of wheat is 680 yuan/mu under normal circumstances.
If the general wheat yield is 700~800 kg/mu, the output value is 826~944 yuan/mu, excluding the production investment, the net profit of planting is 326~444 yuan/mu.
The total area of land contracted by a family is about 10 acres, so the net economic income of a farmer planting wheat for a year is about 6,800 yuan at most, and under normal circumstances it is only between 3,260 ~ 4,440 yuan.
Therefore, peasant households can only operate their own land in accordance with the Rural Land Contract Management Law and other relevant laws, and they can plant whatever crops on the market are high in price and have good economic returns, and in any way that can maximize the peasant households' profits.
Therefore, rural animal husbandry is developing at a high speed at the same time, and farmers need a large amount of green storage feed to raise cattle and sheep, so they purchase a large number of green storage feed in rural areas according to the market price of 1500~2000 yuan/mu.
In this way, farmers can obtain an output value of 1500~2000 yuan/mu per mu by selling green storage feed, and can obtain high economic benefits of 1100~1600 yuan per year after removing all the costs of planting.
In terms of the economic income of peasant households planting wheat, the economic income of peasant households selling green storage wheat seedlings is 1100~1600 yuan per mu, while the highest income per mu of peasant households selling wheat grain is 680 yuan, generally 326~444 yuan/mu.
Then, farmers sell an acre of wheat silage feed, than sell an acre of wheat grain at least 420 ~ 920 yuan more, under normal circumstances to charge 774 ~ 1156 yuan more, basically sell wheat green fodder to obtain the net income, is 2 ~ 3 times the net income of selling wheat grain.
In this way, in order to maximize economic income from wheat planting, peasants can only choose to sell wheat and green fodder, not wheat grain.
The reasons for farmers' consideration are: first, selling wheat and green storage feed is 2~3 times higher than selling wheat grain, and selling green storage feed saves the cumbersome affairs of later management, and also saves a lot of costs.
Second, according to the provisions of the Land Contract Management Law, farmers selling green storage feed is within the proper business scope and does not violate laws and regulations.
Third, the sale of green storage fodder by peasant households is in line with the state's policy of enriching the people, and can effectively increase the economic income of peasants planting wheat.
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