Different populations (varieties or strains), the offspring of individual crosses are often better than the average of their original pure breeding populations to a certain extent in terms of vitality, growth potential and production performance. This phenomenon is called hybrid vigor.<
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Crossbreeding can change the genetic structure and quickly improve the performance of low-yielding cattle.
In addition to the hybrid vigor produced by the gene hybrid effect, the role of crossbreeding in cattle can also be used to recombine genes and create new types of livestock, which is generally used for breed improvement or breeding of new varieties (strains).
Crossbreeding can significantly increase individual yields, shorten the breeding cycle, reduce the cost of raising cattle, and improve economic effects.
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It took two years to build a pasture and buy cows, investing hundreds of millions of yuan, and finally produced these two hybrid cattle breeds.
When Wu Siyuan handed over the detailed report on the two hybrid cattle breeds to Wang Fan, Wang Fan was so excited that his eyes almost filled with enthusiasm.
Finally, the results finally came out.
Over the past two years, he has been throwing money into it, and Wu Siyuan even threw all his wealth into it, but it has been unable to produce economic effects, which is reflected in constant losses.
Although Wang Fan has a good family background, he will be under a lot of pressure if he burns money like this.
However, now it is finally clear that the clouds have cleared and the moon is bright.
And what I saw was not a piece of gold, but a gold mine.
After he personally visited the Inner Mongolia ranch and saw with his own eyes the performance of the two hybrid cattle breeds, he immediately used his personal connections to report the situation when he returned, which immediately attracted the attention of senior officials.
After all, Wang Fan has a relative who is an official in his family and is a veritable third-generation red man. It was easy for him to deliver this news.
When it comes to food, the country has always attached great importance to it.
Soon, the Minister of Agriculture of the country led a team, accompanied by many members of ministries and commissions, and came all the way to this [Yongyuan Ranch] for inspection.
In Wu Siyuan, a ranch that cost several hundred million to build, they saw the real situation of [China's Anxi cattle], and also saw the modernization, intensification, mechanization, and refined breeding process of Yongyuan Ranch.
The efficiency of this kind of large-scale breeding is unmatched by those of free-range cattle dealers, and it is also highly resistant to risks.
It can be said that apart from [Chinese Anxi cattle], the management method of this ranch is unique and worth visiting.
A member of the ministry even said to Wu Siyuan and others that seeing this ranch is like seeing the direction of the country's future animal husbandry development, and it is worth learning from other colleagues.
All in all, the leaders were very satisfied with this inspection and praised Wu Siyuan and even Wang Fan a lot.
After these big leaders left, relevant security personnel soon came to protect the entire Yongyuan Ranch.
The beef can go out.
However, live cattle and related items, even cattle urine, cannot leave this pasture.
The country has obviously learned from Japan’s Wagyu experience and doesn’t want this to happen to them.
Although Japanese Wagyu beef is famous internationally, it can even be said to be the number one beef brand.
But in Japan, the history of eating beef is only more than 60 years.
In ancient times, Japan did not eat beef, or was not allowed to eat beef.
At that time, cattle were an important productive force. In order to protect farming, Emperor Tenmu of Japan issued a "meat ban" in 675 AD, which prohibited cattle, horses, dogs, apes, chickens and other animals from April to September every year.
Coupled with the influence of Japanese culture, people who eat meat are considered unclean, so most Japanese people have not eaten beef.
This situation did not change until the Meiji period.
Institutionally, the Meiji government promoted meat eating as an important means to improve the Japanese people's physique and civilize the society. In 1872, Emperor Meiji took the lead in serving a chopstick of beef, and eating beef began to become a trend in Japan.
According to a historical record, the Japanese ate more than 30,000 cattle in 1879, and beef was in serious short supply.
Japan's native cattle breeds are not originally intended for meat consumption, are small in size, and do not produce much meat. In order to increase production, the Japanese government began to encourage the introduction of excellent foreign cattle breeds and crossbreeds with domestic cattle to breed large bodies and high meat production.
High-quality beef cattle with a short feeding cycle and obvious frost.
The term "Wagyu" was born at this time, mainly to distinguish it from exotic cattle.
However, the consequence of excessive crossbreeding is that the frost genes characteristic of local cattle are gradually diluted. The Japanese government quickly took measures after discovering this sign.
After systematic sorting of various cattle breeds, in the 1950s, four varieties of [Black Wagyu], [Brown Wagyu], [Short-horned Wagyu], and [Hornless Wagyu] were finally established as Wagyu, and were strictly prohibited.
These breeds are then crossed with exotic cattle breeds to ensure the purity of their bloodlines.
Although Japanese Wagyu beef is bred from foreign cattle breeds, in order to maintain the rarity of this precious commodity, the Japanese government issued a ban in 1988 on the export of live Wagyu beef!
It's just that Japan's local Wagyu breeding was not strong at that time, but the market demand was strong, which provided opportunities for other countries.
In the 1970s, Canada and the United States transported Wagyu sperm and cattle breeds in the name of scientific research, which first led to the breeding of Japanese Wagyu cattle overseas.
But what really made Japanese breeders furious was that in 1997, the Westholme Wagyu organization, led by Chris Walker from the United States, imported dozens of live black Wagyu cattle and their genes into the United States through ET Japan (ETJ).
Within a few years, thousands of purebred Japanese Wagyu cattle were produced in animal laboratories in Iowa and Texas and shipped to farms in New South Wales, Australia for breeding.
Although Takeda Shogo, the farmer who sold live Wagyu cattle to the United States, was removed from the Japan Wagyu Registration Association, it was too late. The United States had already established a huge "Wagyu family" in the United States and exported it to several countries and regions in the following years.
Region.
Today, the Wagyu family has spread to farms in dozens of countries.
Japan's direct or indirect losses in this incident may exceed billions of dollars.
The so-called lesson learned from the past is a guide for future events.
The top leaders of the country don’t want to see this kind of situation happen.
And it is different from the low output of Japanese Wagyu beef. Although the unit price is high, the overall value is not great.
The [Chinese Anxi cattle] bred by Wu Siyuan have the advantages of strong adaptability, fast growth rate, low breeding cost, etc. In time, it will not be difficult to replace the dominance of domestic and foreign cattle breeds, and maybe they can also counterattack the international market.
The international beef market is much larger than the domestic beef market, which is a trillion-dollar market.
If you can get a share of it, the economic effect will not be comparable to billions of dollars, but at least tens of billions of dollars, and possibly even hundreds of billions of dollars.
With such a big piece of fat in front of us, the country doesn’t want to be eaten away by foreigners