On July 12, 3,500 Australian Holstein cattle imported by Tianjin Hailu Aojin International Trade Co., Ltd. arrived in Dafeng Port, Jiangsu Province, with the exporter being Austrex Andy Export Co., Ltd. (austrex) and purchased by multiple pastures in Ningxia, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Tianjin and other places.
Ao Nian's temporary home - Huafeng isolation field
Mr. Wang is at the scene of cattle unloading
According to Wang He, deputy general manager of Hailu Aojin, the imported dairy cow market is hot in 2019, and Australian dairy cows are difficult to find. Australia exports around 100,000 cows a year, and this year's market can be said to be demand-driven. In January and February 2019, in order to encourage the expansion of cooperative farms, some dairy enterprises provided special low-interest loans for cooperative farms, which can only be used for imported dairy cows, so the demand for imported dairy cows has increased significantly, and the large farms under dairy enterprises have become the main force of batch imported dairy cows. Compared with the cows of New Zealand, Uruguay and Chile, China's farms have the highest evaluation of Australian cattle, so Australian cattle orders have increased, and in 2019, Australia's Holstan has been ordered.
Australian Breeding Cattle Exports, 2015-2019
Customs data show that in 2018, China's imports of breeding cattle decreased significantly, with a total of 40,951 heads imported, a year-on-year decrease of 38,459 heads, of which 29,882 heads came from Australia, accounting for 73.0% of total imports, and 11,069 came from New Zealand, accounting for 27.0%.
The recovery of the imported dairy cattle market in 2019 also has a lot to do with the improvement of the situation of China's dairy farming industry, from January to May, China's imported breeding cattle have reached 32,241 heads, an increase of 18,768 heads over the same period in 2018, and it is expected to reach 100,000 heads throughout the year, and the breeds are mainly dairy cows. According to Wang He's analysis, the price of raw milk has entered a downward channel since 2014, the dairy farming industry has been sluggish for many years, and profitability is difficult, while the beef market is better, resulting in a higher elimination rate of dairy cows, affecting the benign operation of the dairy cattle. China's environmental protection requirements for pastures are also becoming more and more stringent, and many farms have withdrawn under the dual pressure of profitability difficulties and environmental protection, and the number of farms has decreased. According to reports in early 2018, data from the former Ministry of Agriculture showed that there were only 8,100 large-scale pastures in China in 2017, and the number of pastures is even smaller. The double decline in the number of farms and dairy cows has deepened the expectations of dairy enterprises for future milk shortages, and it is necessary to work closely with farms to ensure milk sources, and providing low-interest loans for cooperative farms to import dairy cows is the embodiment of this expectation. Since the second half of 2018, the situation of the dairy farming industry has improved significantly, although the milk price in 2019 still has a seasonal decline, but the raw milk price began to rise in early June, more than 2 months earlier than in previous years, and the construction of new farms and the expansion of the original pasture have led to an increase in demand for imported dairy cows.
Hailu Aojin Wang, Dafenggang Animal Husbandry Chen and Yueda Logistics Du exchanged views
Wang He said that if the ranch must import Australian cattle, according to the market situation of the ranch, it can only wait until 2020, and it is also necessary to plan as soon as possible and order early. This year's Australian Holstein is almost sold out. The main reason is that on the one hand, China's demand for Australian cattle continues to rise, on the other hand, the drought climate in the past two years has caused the feeding cost of Australian pasture cattle to increase, and Australian pastures are eager to sell. If the farm urgently needs to import dairy cows, Wang He suggested that New Zealand dairy cows can be considered, although the New Zealand dairy cows are small and have low yields, they also have low feed intake, high feed conversion rates, and high milk protein content. And the seasonality of New Zealand dairy cows is very strong, the cattle that provide exports in October and November weigh more than 260 kg, and more than 75% of the weight of more than 290 kg, all of which are big cattle, and can participate in the farm soon after arriving. In addition, the price is lower than that of Australian dairy cows, so the benefits of importing New Zealand dairy cows are also more.
The "bride" who is far away is a little nervous in the face of the new life that is about to begin
According to Wang He, the price of imported dairy cows has risen in 2019, but the magnitude is not large. Austrex, a partner of Hailu Australia and Tianjin, is still very sincere about the Chinese market and has not increased its price significantly due to short supply. The price of imported young dairy cows has risen by about 10% year-on-year this year, not only because of demand, but also because of the impact of the exchange rate. After the Sino-US trade war, the dollar appreciated, further increasing the cost of buying cattle. The dollar exchange rate increased from around 6.3 in mid-2018 to around 6.9 today, and the appreciation of the dollar has contributed to the rise in prices.
Hailu Aojin Wang and Alexander Snape, Jet before unloading the cattle
In an interview with Holstein, Alexandra Snape of austrex said that orders for dairy cows in China have indeed increased since 2019, which is a good thing, and the increase in orders can promote the development of Australian pastures. With more than 7,000 cooperative farms, austrex has the ability to provide customers in China with a sufficient number of breeding cattle. Austrex has worked with China for many years and has witnessed the development of China's dairy industry, and China's economic growth rate, including the growth rate of the dairy industry, is surprising. Judging from the current orders, Australia's exports of dairy cows to China will double year-on-year in 2019.
Jet, a Chinese boy at austrex, stuck to a working platform of less than 1 square meter for more than ten hours
austrex Jet gave a brief overview of the company's development, the impact of the drought in Australia on the aquaculture industry, and the import of dairy cattle, and also spoke highly of the cooperation with Hailu Aojin.
Founded in 1973, austrex exports breeding stock from Australia, New Zealand, Chile, Uruguay, the United States and Europe and has become one of the world's largest livestock exporters, exporting approximately 250,000 live animals (including breeding cattle, breeding sheep, slaughtered/fattening cattle, alpacas, breeding dairy buffalo, etc.) each year. Since 2002, nearly 500,000 breeding stocks have been exported to China, and the main customers cover almost all large breeding enterprises; in 2018, customs statistics show that austrex accounts for 50% of the total number of livestock exported to China; exports more than 1,800 breeding bulls, covering the vast majority of domestic bull stations, and is currently the exclusive breeding bull supplier in the Chinese market. austrex has been committed to providing customers with high-quality supply chain solutions, with a sound quality assurance system and tracking system, perennial initiative to send senior Australian experts to China for cattle training lectures and site design guidance and other pre-sales and after-sales service.
Australia experienced a very severe drought from the second half of last year to the beginning of the year, which increased the cost and difficulty of raising, resulting in an increase in cattle slaughter and a decline in stocks.
Compared with the difficulty of domestic breeding and fluctuations in stocks in Australia, China's demand for imported cattle remained strong. This year, due to the steady rise in milk prices, the demand from customers of imported dairy cows has continued to increase, and there are many customers consulting. Industry insiders generally predict that the hot market will last until next year.
Austrex and Hailu Aojin have carried out friendly and in-depth cooperation since 2017, and in 2017 and 2018, in the case of a sluggish market in the breeding animal import industry, more than 20,000 good breeding cattle were exported to China, showing a strong momentum. Since 2018, the two sides have joined forces to provide services for well-known large dairy enterprises in China, which is well known in the industry for the quality of austrex cattle and the service quality of Hailu Aojin. In October 2019, the cooperation between the two sides will also import 2 ships of dairy cows, a ship of nearly 6,000 New Zealand dairy cows, a ship of more than 3,000 Australian dairy cows, Hailu Aojin also undertook a large dairy company's 2020 imported dairy cow orders, under the new market conditions, austrex and Hailu Aojin Cooperation prospects will be broader.
The cooperation between Hailu Aojin and Austrex will be closer
Hailu Aojin Australia cattle selection site Candidate cows slowly came
Hailu Aojin has invested in its own ranch in Victoria, Australia, covering an area of 6,000 acres and is ideally located just 30 minutes drive from portland port. It is possible to purchase young cattle in advance and put them into the pasture for breeding, reaching more than 200 kilograms of allowed export to export to China, which is much cheaper than directly purchasing young cattle of more than 200 kilograms; it can also breed young cattle at Hailu Aojin Australian Ranch according to customer needs, pregnant young cattle can produce milk quickly after arriving at the customer's pasture, and some of the pregnant cows in the imported Holstein cattle are some pregnant cattle.
Candidate cows are a little shy to see their in-laws
For the planning of future enterprises, Wang He modestly said that Hailu Aojin is still a young livestock trading company, and the current imported breeding cattle business has achieved benign operation, and is also considering entering the slaughtering cattle market, but it will certainly operate cautiously. According to China's regulations, slaughtering cattle must be slaughtered within 14 days after landing, and after half a month of shipping, beef cattle will definitely lose their fat, and the invisible loss is very large. In addition, the import of slaughtered cattle is actually an imported fresh beef business, can it be sold in the short term? If it can't be sold, the fresh meat becomes frozen meat, and the value is greatly reduced. Therefore, the market research in the early stage of the import slaughter cattle business is indispensable.
Cattle unloading site
After the completion of the operation, the cooperating parties took a group photo to commemorate the occasion
Introduction of Tianjin Hailu Aojin International Trade Co., Ltd
Tianjin Hailu Aojin International Trade Co., Ltd. (Hailu), established in April 2015, is an enterprise with the import and export trade of dairy cattle and forage as its main business, the company has the right to import and export operations, and has the relevant qualifications for importing live animals, genetic materials and forage. Hailu invested 100 million yuan to open up the import industrial chain of fine breed live animals from Australia to China, of which more than 40 million yuan was invested to establish the highest level of live animal import inspection and quarantine field in China, and at the same time, it purchased a high-quality breeding cattle stocking ranch in Victoria, Australia, thus realizing the whole industrial chain from overseas to the sea, from the acquisition, breeding, loading and transportation of breeding cattle to the domestic isolation and entry of the whole industry chain, providing domestic animal husbandry enterprises with high quality and higher cost performance of imported good breeding cattle. Relying on this industrial chain, Hailu Aojin has also carried out peripheral businesses such as sex control sperm, embryos and forage. Hailu gives full play to the hardware advantages of the upstream ranch base, completes the acquisition work at a lower price when the breeding cattle are young, increases the breeding links, competes with other exporters in dislocation, transforms the price advantage into an affordable purchase price for customers, and truly provides the best cost-effective breeding cattle for domestic livestock enterprises. At the same time, Hailu gives full play to the advantages of the gender selection technology center laboratory, which can artificially control breeding of age-appropriate breeding cattle in overseas pastures, so that breeding cattle can be exported back to China with tires, shortening the breeding cycle of breeding cattle in China until they are put into production, and reducing breeding costs. This core competitive advantage has made the product popular with the industry as soon as it was launched. Since 2016, Hailu has successfully delivered more than 20,000 breeding cattle to Chinese buyers, mainly Holstein, as well as Juanshan cattle, Angus cattle, and Wagyu cattle. In 2019, sitting on the two major markets of Tianjin and Beijing, radiating the five northwestern provinces, in the case of excellent location advantages and core competitiveness, in the case of the healthy development of the breeding livestock business, Hailu slaughtering cattle business was officially launched. At present, the import of slaughtering cattle has become one of the key businesses of Hailu. Contact: Wang He Contact number: 18622881022 WeChat: cntoddwang