Chapter 144: The Fat Year (Additional Update) (Ch 817537336)

The agreement between the Feed Association and Hailufeng Company has no direct impact on ordinary people, but it has a closely related indirect impact.
Because the price of fish meal is related to the price of feed, and the price of feed is related to the prices of aquatic products, chickens, ducks, geese and pigs.
Among them, the most affected is aquatic products.
Because the fish meal content in aquatic product breeding feed is usually required to be around 50-70%, while the fish meal content in pig feed and poultry feed is between 1% and 5%.
In the breeding industry, feed costs account for about 50% to 80% of the total costs.
From this we can see that the price of fish meal determines the price of aquatic products, but the price of fish meal has a relatively small impact on the cost of live pigs, chickens, ducks and geese.
Therefore, the market prices of fish feed, shrimp feed and crab feed have plummeted since the beginning of February, generally falling by 15-25%.
This decline will bring about an astonishing change in the per-acre yield efficiency of domestic aquaculture.
The Lingnan Fisheries Association has conducted relevant research and is generally bearish on future domestic aquatic product prices. It is expected that wholesale and retail prices in the aquatic product market will fall by about 5 to 10%.
At the same time, aquaculture associations in other provinces also issued announcements, reminding farmers not to blindly expand their breeding scale to avoid large-scale losses due to market price fluctuations and overcapacity.
After all, at this stage, domestic consumption power is relatively limited, and the consumption of aquatic products will not increase suddenly. If production is expanded too much at once, overcapacity will easily occur.
Even if we want to expand production, we have to make adjustments slowly.
However, the scale of expansion of production of one type of fish is very large.
Lingnan, southern Fujian, Guangxi Province, and Qiongzhou are the four most suitable regions for large-scale breeding of Egyptian catfish, namely South China F4. Major domestic feed manufacturers have begun to plan for breeding of Egyptian catfish.
Either expand your own farm or cooperate with villagers near the feed factory in breeding.
These domestic feed producers did not even celebrate the Spring Festival, and worked overtime to expand the scale of Egyptian catfish breeding, hoping to obtain cheap raw materials as soon as possible.
It is estimated that by June next year, South China will have an annual production capacity of 8 million tons of fresh Egyptian catfish, 3 million tons of fish meal, and 880,000 tons of fish oil.
However, this huge production capacity also requires the consumption of approximately 24 million tons of corn and soybean meal for various types of forage, which has also put considerable pressure on the domestic supply of plant-based feed.
This is also the reason why Xue Hua wanted to try to grow alfalfa himself. Alfalfa can also be used as fish feed for Egyptian catfish, and it is a very good feed.
At a time when some feed producers are expanding catfish farming in Egypt.
Some feed manufacturers that originally relied on imported fish meal did not rush to start Egyptian catfish farming business, but instead purchased fish meal directly from Haida Group.
For example, the China-Australia Group and Guangdong Ocean Shipping Group have no plans to develop the Egyptian catfish breeding industry.
After all, many people have calculated that the current domestic demand for fish meal is limited to about 4 million tons per year.
If Egypt produces 3 million tons of catfish meal, plus 400,000 tons of other domestically produced fish meal, and then imports 600,000 tons of deep-sea fish meal, it would be almost 4 million tons.
Haida Group has already occupied more than half of the Egyptian catfish meal production, and the remaining more than one million tons of Egyptian catfish meal are divided up by Hailufeng Company, Hengxing Group and Tongwei Group.
In this case, if other feed producers enter the market, it will only lead to serious overcapacity, and no one will make money.
Except for Hailufeng, which has a stable position, other companies dare not expand blindly, but discuss their respective production capacity in private to avoid undermining each other.
This round of expansion of the feed industry.
The coastal areas of South China seemed to have been stimulated, and the economy changed from its previous sluggishness and began to regain vitality.
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In the south, the Chinese New Year’s Eve is on February 11th.
The last batch of gifts sent by Hailufeng Company were also delivered to customers one after another via SF Express’s container trucks or cargo planes.
Magic City.
As a local, Zhao Xinyan knew that the new year had come when she saw the empty streets.
I just rode my bike back to the community entrance.
“Ms. Zhao, there’s a package for you.” The middle-aged security guard in the security room quickly reminded her. The reason why he knew Zhao Xinyan was mainly because she came to pick up packages every few days.
“Oh? I remember now, I almost forgot.” Zhao Xinyan then remembered that it was the gift that Hailufeng Company had given to its old customers.
After picking up the SF Express from the express rack in the security room, she muttered to herself, “Using SF Express? I thought it was a postal parcel or 3TongyiDa?”
Borrowing a utility knife from the security room, she opened the outer packaging, revealing a large bag of vacuum-packed morels. They looked very fresh, and the ice pack hadn’t melted yet, but that was normal since it was winter after all.
Suddenly a voice sounded beside him.
“Sister Zhao, are you buying morels? A bag this big will cost around 400 to 500 yuan, right?”
Zhao Xinyan turned her head and raised her glasses before she could see clearly who was coming. It was the son of her next-door neighbor. He was also looking for a package. “It turns out to be Tianrui. It just so happens that you can take half back and give it to him.”
“I don’t dare to accept such an expensive thing. My mother will scold me later.” Dong Tianrui shook his head like a rattle.
Zhao Xinyan cut open the vacuum bag, poured about half of it into the courier packaging bag, and handed it to Dong Tianrui: “Just tell Sister Hong that I sent it. Sister Hong helps me take care of the children all day long. This little thing is nothing. Besides, it was given to me by someone else. Take it.”
“…” Dong Tianrui was forced to eat half a bag of morels, and an awkward, speechless smile appeared on his face.
The main reason why he didn’t want to accept it was that he didn’t quite understand the interpersonal relationships between adults. Every time Zhao Xinyan sent something to his house, his mother would send it back in a hurry, and then the two sides would argue about it before accepting it again.
If he collected the things, they would say he collected things casually.
Dong Tianrui was speechless after seeing this.
Can’t you be more straightforward?
Sure enough, when he returned home with the express delivery and a bag of morels.
“Tianrui, what did you buy? You’re spending money indiscriminately again.” His mother Li Yinghong blurted out as soon as she saw the express delivery in his hand.
“Clothes! Don’t we need new clothes for the New Year?” Dong Tianrui handed the bag of morels to his mother: “These are the morels that Sister Zhao just gave me. My friend asked me to go out and play, so I won’t be back for dinner tonight.”
As soon as he finished speaking, Dong Tianrui threw the express package containing clothes on the sofa, quickly backed out of the door, and disappeared at the door in the blink of an eye.
“This child, what is the hurry for?” Li Yinghong suddenly realized the morel in her hand: “This child, how can she accept such a valuable thing so casually? Hey! Xinyan is really too polite. I’d better take it back to her!”
After a while, she knocked on Zhao Xinyan’s door.
When Zhao Xinyan saw that it was Li Yinghong and the morels in her hand, she knew the other party’s intention and quickly said, “Sister Hong, these are the morels I got as a gift from my online shopping. The store gave me two kilograms. This stuff should be eaten fresh. There are only four people in my family, and we can’t eat two kilograms at once. Just take it! Don’t be polite with me.”
“Xinyan, don’t lie to me. I also shop online frequently. I just checked, and a pound of fresh morels costs more than two hundred yuan. What store is so good?” Li Yinghong didn’t believe it at all. She thought that Zhao Xinyan said this on purpose to make her accept the package of morels.
“Hehe…” Zhao Xinyan had no choice but to take out her phone and show it to her: “Sister Hong, take a look, is it free?”
After looking at it for a while, Li Yinghong finally believed it. Then she started to think about getting a bargain again: “Xinyan, does this store still have free gifts?”
Zhao Xinyan shook her head: “Sister Hong, their promotion only gives gifts to old customers. You haven’t bought anything from them, so there will definitely be no gifts this year. Maybe you can try next year.”
“It’s called the Hailufeng Specialty Store, right? I’ll keep an eye on it later.”
“Well, that’s the name.”
Li Yinghong looked at the bag of morels in her hand again. She had never cooked this kind of mushroom before and didn’t know how to make it taste good, so she asked, “Xinyan, how should we cook these morels better?”
“I haven’t eaten this either. Let me try the sweet potato.”
The two of them were eating melon seeds while looking at the sweet potatoes.
“Chicken soup with morels should be delicious…”
“Speaking of stewed chicken, my brother brought me two black chickens from his hometown. I’ll give one to you later.”
“Sister Hong, that’s not necessary.”
“You’re welcome. Tianrui and Yingying don’t like eating black chicken anyway…”
Before they knew it, they had been chatting for over an hour.
Zhao Xinyan’s husband opened the door carrying a few bags. “Hey, Sister Hong, Happy New Year! Why are you so polite? And you brought some morels?”
“Dingxin, you misunderstood. This was given to me by Xinyan.” Li Yinghong explained with a smile.
“Uh uh…Is that so!” A trace of embarrassment flashed across Dong Dingxin’s face, and then he put the bag on the coffee table and opened it: “Today is the company’s annual holiday, and I went to buy some things. Things are much more expensive this year, but the prices of pork, fish and shrimp have not increased too much.”
“What did you buy?” Li Yinghong peered into the bag curiously.
Dong Dingxin took a bottle of Fanta, opened it and took a sip: “They are all New Year’s goods, macadamia nuts, Brazilian pine nuts, melon seeds, almonds, pistachios, chocolates and candies. The prices of these things have increased a lot this year.”
“You two just chat, I won’t be a light bulb.”
Li Yinghong hurried back with the morels, preparing to deliver the black chicken in the refrigerator to Zhao Xinyan.
“Sister Hong, take care.” Zhao Xinyan, who was looking through the bags, saw several bags of soft-canned kabayaki eel and asked in surprise, “Why did you buy eels?”
“Oh? Are you talking about this? This is what my colleague Xiao Li recommended to me. He said that many Japanese restaurants now directly use this semi-finished product to make kabayaki eel. You ordered eel rice takeout several times before, but you didn’t have many bites, right?”
“How much is this bag?” Zhao Xinyan asked.
“Five bags for 499 dollars.”
Looking at the net content of 1.2 kilograms in a bag, Zhao Xinyan didn’t think it was too expensive.
She also felt that ordering takeout during the Chinese New Year was too expensive, cooking at home was too troublesome, and eating out was not cost-effective, so it would be better to use this semi-finished yakiniku eel for a few meals.
Since the beginning of this year, domestic eel production has steadily increased, which has also led to a steady downward trend in the price of this pre-prepared dish, semi-finished yaki eel.
Especially after Hailufeng Company launched a new feed formula, the eel breeding cycle became about seven months, further reducing costs.
Currently, the wholesale price of semi-finished products of grilled eels with the fishy smell removed has generally dropped to 70 to 80 yuan per kilogram, while the retail price is between 80 and 90 yuan per kilogram.
Suddenly, Zhao Xinyi discovered that the grilled eel was produced by Hailufeng Company: “Honey, this eel was produced by Hailufeng Company. They also sent me a bag of morels today!”
“Give away morels? The ones you gave to Sister Hong just now? This company gave away so many?” Dong Dingxin was very surprised.
“I gave half to Sister Hong, and the other half was left at home. Their family is really generous, giving two kilograms of morels to every old customer.”
“!? Two kilograms?” Dong Dingxin was confused: “Are morels very cheap? From what I remember, they don’t seem to be cheap?”
“Online, one pound costs more than 200 yuan.”
Dong Dingxin’s eyes widened: “Damn! Does their company really give gifts to every old customer? Even if there are not many old customers, it is still a considerable expense!”
“Haha, they have a lot of customers.”
Dong Dingxin picked up his phone and went to Taobao.com, where he quickly found the Hailufeng store. Looking at the huge sales volume, there were also many videos and photos of recent photos and videos of people showing off their gifts in the comment section. With a quick look, he found that there were thousands of comments of this type.
“How much did they give away? Two kilograms per customer, that’s more than 400 yuan. Even if they produce it themselves, it would cost more than 100 yuan, right? I just checked and they gave away at least hundreds of thousands of copies. That must be tens of millions!”
“I’m not short of money.” Zhao Xinyan said as she sorted the things in the bag.
“Aren’t you short of money?” Dong Dingxin was a little confused at first.
However, when he saw the shelves of the Hailufeng specialty store, with premium white truffles priced at 3,000 yuan per kilogram, premium edible glass eels priced at 25,000 yuan per kilogram, farmed eel fry priced at 23,000 yuan per kilogram, and the sales volume of more than 10,000 behind the products, he suddenly realized.
“So it’s the company that sells white truffles. No wonder they’re so arrogant.”
Zhao Xinyan packed the nuts and said, “This is an exclusive business, so of course it makes money.”
After looking for a while, Dong Dingxin raised his head and said, “But the prices of their products are quite high, only tomatoes are a little cheaper. I feel that ordinary people at the bottom will not buy them.”
“They specialize in high-end products.”
“Come to think of it, our company might have business dealings with Hailufeng Company?”
Zhao Xinyan opened the refrigerator and put the things that needed to be frozen and refrigerated in it: “Doesn’t your company make laboratory equipment? What business do you have with Hailufeng Company?”
Dong Dingxin clapped his fists and said, “I remember now. A laboratory construction company in Pengcheng ordered a large number of experimental equipment from our company. I remember that they were building a laboratory for Hailufeng Company. Why did this name sound familiar to me?”
“Your company does so much business every year, how come you remember it so clearly?”
“This matter started with the laboratory construction company. The person in charge of their purchasing department purchased a large number of second-hand laboratory equipment from us, which was then discovered by Hailufeng Company. Later, our company argued with that company for more than a month, so I was deeply impressed.”
“The purchasing manager of that company wants to have the best of both worlds, right?” Zhao Xinyan, who works as an accountant, is well aware of the tricks of the purchasing departments of some companies.
“It should be.” Dong Dingxin took a sip of Fanta. “Hic… This year I have to thank Hailufeng Company. They have purchased a lot of laboratory equipment and consumables from us one after another.”
In fact, Hailufeng Company has indeed brought many opportunities during its development.
For example, the experimental equipment company where Dong Dingxin works has successively supplied more than 80 million yuan worth of experimental equipment and consumables to Hailufeng Company.
There are also solar panel manufacturers, lead-carbon battery manufacturers, suppliers of agricultural materials and machinery, suppliers of aquaculture equipment and consumables, tinplate can suppliers in the canning industry, food-grade soft can packaging bag suppliers, paper box packaging suppliers, etc.
These are directly related businesses.
For example, the supplier’s wholesale price for soft can packaging bags for grilled eels is 0.38 yuan each to Hailufeng Company, so the company makes a profit of 0.12 yuan per bag.
However, the demand is huge. At least 500,000 to 600,000 plastic flexible packaging bags are needed every month, which brings in a gross profit of more than 60,000 yuan per month.
The demand is also showing an increasing trend, mainly because a large number of fish ball products also require plastic packaging bags.
Moreover, unlike other companies, Hailufeng Company is not slow in paying money, which makes it a rare and high-quality Party A for suppliers in the upstream industrial chain.
After all, now all walks of life like to delay payment for goods, usually for 1 to 3 months, or even for half a year.
It would be fine if you just hold back the payment for the goods, but sometimes the other party goes bankrupt or runs away, then it will be very difficult to recover the payment.
Sometimes, many upstream suppliers are also in a very difficult situation. Major customers suddenly go bankrupt or run away, which may even lead to the bankruptcy of some upstream companies with a relatively single industrial structure.
Hailufeng Company implements the 1361 plan for supplier payment rules, especially for fast-consuming consumables.
1 is one month.
3 is a 30% advance payment.
6 is 60% of the payment upon delivery.
1 is 10% of the acceptance fee.
If there are no problems, the process will be completed within one month.
For example, if there are no quality issues with packaging bags after use and the yield rate meets the standards specified in the contract, then the 10% acceptance balance can be received within 30 days.
The emergence of Hailufeng Company has supported a large number of related enterprises.
This is also the reason why many regions try every means to introduce large enterprises, because large enterprises not only have their own industries and employees, but also drive a large number of upstream and downstream enterprises and individuals.
This year, all the companies that served as suppliers to Hailufeng Company had a good year.
As these companies perform better, their employees will more or less receive some bonuses, and ordinary employees will also have a better life.
By the same token, the local Egyptian catfish farmers in Shanmei are actually equivalent to the upstream suppliers of Hailufeng Company, but they are all self-employed.
Together, these self-employed Egyptian catfish farmers received approximately RMB 236.25 million in payments. There were a total of 2,473 Egyptian catfish farmers, with an average income of RMB 95,533 per household and a gross profit of around 40%, meaning each household earned RMB 38,213.
And this is only about half a year. If it is a one-year cycle, the income can double.
Although many farmers work with their entire family, at least they make real money.
For the residents of Magong Town and its surrounding villagers, the Spring Festival in 2027 was a prosperous year, and they believed that this was the beginning of good days.