Chapter 96 Amazing Meat to Material Ratio (Medium)
July 13th.
Unknowingly, the cicadas chirping outside the window became even more manic, as if celebrating the arrival of summer.
The lychees on both sides of the road are red in the face, and the longan is still a little green. Under the scorching sun, many farmers are busy in the fruit trees with their families.
When passing by Yanding Village, a fellow villager just gave Jiang Miao a few bags of cinnamon-flavored lychees. He casually peeled one open and put the crystal-clear pulp into his mouth.
At this time he was not in the laboratory, but in the feed mill.
In the feed factory, the renovated floors, walls, steel structure factory buildings, and refurbished equipment make the entire factory area look brand new.
The large signboard that was installed just a few days ago is now covered with red cloth, waiting to be unveiled.
But today, in addition to him, there are several other guests who will come to participate in the ribbon-cutting ceremony of the production.
Among the people present, in addition to Jiang Miao, there were also general manager Jiang Haibo, as well as the director of the feed factory Fang Yi and the head of the environmental protection office Lu Mingyuan.
This Fang Yi is from Beihai, Guangxi Province. He is forty-one years old, with a small round face and big eyes. His face looks a bit young. He used to work as a factory manager for a small feed factory in Echeng. He was hired by Jiang Haibo to manage the feed factory some time ago.
Lu Mingyuan from the Environmental Protection Office came here today just to explain some of the environmental protection projects to Jiang Miao later. After all, he was the one leading the environmental planning work for the feed mill.
After everyone ate a few lychees.
Facing the ribbon-cutting scene in the scorching sun, Convenience suggested: "Boss, why don't we go into the factory and take a look?"
After looking at the time on his watch, Jiang Miao thought it was OK: "Then lead the way!"
The entire factory is divided into six areas, namely office building, loading and unloading dock, raw material storage warehouse, finished product storage warehouse, raw material preliminary processing factory, and feed finished product production factory.
The place where they were standing just now was the loading and unloading dock. They passed by the office building of the feed factory and came to the raw material storage warehouse next to the loading and unloading dock.
"Boss, here is the raw fish purchasing room designed according to your requirements. Behind it are the quick freezing room, freezing warehouse, and regular raw material storage warehouse."
Jiang Miao glanced at the frozen warehouse: "How many tons of frozen fish can be stored in this warehouse?"
Fang Yi quickly replied: "It can store about 12,000 tons of frozen fish. In addition to shelves and reserved passages, there is a total of 28,000 cubic meters of storage space. It is divided into two warehouses, both equipped with backup diesel generators."
After observing for a while, Jiang Miao pointed out several potential problems, such as the insulation layer of some refrigerated warehouses that was not tightly sealed.
When Fang Yi heard these problems, he broke out in a cold sweat and quickly said that he would rectify them as soon as possible.
In fact, Fang Yi, who had only worked at Hailufeng Company for more than two months, did not understand Jiang Miao's working style in the company, nor did he know the respect that everyone in the company had for Jiang Miao.
For example, the purchasing department really feels like they are walking on thin ice.
Because Jiang Miao knows the things they purchase better than the manufacturers who produce them, and cannot be fooled at all. After being criticized several times, the purchasing department now does not dare to make small moves at all. They are afraid that if the boss makes a surprise inspection, they may have to pack everything up. Leave.
Today was the first time that Fang Yi met a truly "understanding" boss, and he was immediately intimidated by the boss.
After watching the frozen warehouse area.
Next door is the feed grain storage area, which can store 50,000 to 70,000 tons of corn, soybean meal, etc.
The same situation happened again.
The white hair on Fang Yi's forehead was already sweating like rain. While he quickly wrote down the problems he found, he said that he would arrange rectification as soon as possible.
Next is the relatively high-value special raw material storage warehouse, which mainly stores nutrients, minerals, chemicals, etc., and can store approximately 8,000 tons of various raw materials.
Fang Yi quickly introduced: "We have divided these raw materials into categories, and specially prepared storage rooms and storage cabinets according to the characteristics of the raw materials."
"The situation here is not a big problem, but..."
ah? No! Here we go again... Fang Yi calls him a good guy in his heart.
"However, your warehouse management system must keep up, especially since the shelf life of various raw materials is different. You must reasonably arrange the purchase volume to avoid waste and avoid supply gaps."
Fang Yi nodded: "The boss is right, we will definitely implement the warehouse management work."
Then the group came to the primary processing factory.
A large number of production equipment are displayed here.
Fang Yi, wearing a safety helmet, pointed to the large pile of equipment and said, "Boss, these are the factory's production equipment. We use the wet pressing production process to produce high-quality fish meal and crude fish oil."< br>
Jiang Miao actually knows a lot about the various processing techniques of fish meal.
Generally, fishmeal production processes can be divided into six categories: direct drying, dry pressing, wet pressing, centrifugation, extraction, and hydrolysis.
Among them, the wet pressing method is also the main application process of mainstream manufacturers. The advantage of this processing technology is that it can obtain better quality fish meal and crude fish oil, and the production cost is relatively moderate.
However, Jiang Miao did not break the casserole and ask the truth.
If you want to know more about the craftsmanship involved, you can go directly to the relevant website to check it out. If Fang Yi were to explain it here, it would take most of a day to finish it.
He asked a more important question: "Lao Fang, during the trial production in the past few days, what was the meal and oil production rate of the Egyptian pond louse?"
Fang Yi has actually led workers to conduct several trial productions these days and obtained a lot of first-hand data. He quickly explained:
"The meal extraction rate of Egyptian pond lice is quite satisfactory, about 22%, and the crude protein content of fish meal is 67% to 68%; the oil extraction rate is about 11.5%, but the content of the part that can be refined into unsaturated fatty acid fish oil accounts for It is about 3.5%, which is a relatively high type.”
Regarding this, Jiang Miao was not too disappointed.
This meal extraction rate and oil extraction rate means that each ton of fresh Egyptian pond lice can produce 220 kilograms of fish meal and 115 kilograms of crude fish oil.
Among them, the current wholesale price of fishmeal in the market is 12 to 17 yuan per kilogram, and 220 kilograms is worth about 2,640 to 3,740 yuan.
The Egyptian pond lice purchased by Hailufeng Company are priced at 3 yuan per kilogram, or 3,000 yuan per ton. It seems that there is a risk of loss.
In fact, there is a real risk of losing money if fishmeal is produced alone.
However, the feed factory of Hailufeng Company does not sell fishmeal directly, but uses fishmeal as raw material to produce high-value feed.
In addition, crude fish oil, a by-product of the fishmeal production process, can also generate economic benefits.
The price of crude fish oil depends on the unsaturated fatty acid content, and the unsaturated fatty acid content of Egyptian pond lice oil is very high, reaching about 30%, which means that its price is even higher.
The current market price can reach about 35 yuan per kilogram, and 115 kilograms of crude fish oil is worth about 4,025 yuan.
In other words, after processing and refining each ton of Egyptian pond lice, the total value of the fishmeal and fish oil produced can reach about 6,665 to 7,765 yuan.
Based on the purchase price of Egyptian pond lice, plus the depreciation rate of factory equipment, water and electricity fees, site fees, labor, etc., the comprehensive cost of producing Egyptian pond lice per ton is about 3,600 yuan, which means that the gross profit can reach 3,065 to 4,165 bucks.
The Egyptian pond lice is indeed a good buried fish.
If the fish meal had not contained too much geosin, many feed mills would have used Egyptian pond lice as raw materials.
The profits from fishmeal and fish oil can further spread the investment costs of the factory, and can also provide cheaper feed for the farms.
Jiang Miao touched his chin: "The 1,500 acres of Egyptian pond lice breeding contract signed before seems not enough now, but we will produce at this capacity for a while."
"I agree with the boss's idea." Although Fang Yi knows that the company's feed has a bright future, the problem is that the market has not yet opened up. Too much production capacity is being launched in a hurry, which is very likely to cause inventory backlog.
You know, feed has a shelf life, especially high-protein fish feed.
Under general non-frozen, light-proof storage conditions, fish feed can be stored for about 45 days in summer, about 60 days in spring and autumn, and can be extended to about 150 days in subzero temperatures in winter.
Therefore, Jiang Miao would rather go slower than blindly expand production capacity.
The reason why Fang Yi believes that the company's feed has unlimited potential is because he has seen the feeding effects of these feeds.
There are three types of eel feed specially prepared by Jiang Miao, namely, sea snow eel feed, fattening eel feed, and fishy eel feed.
Among them, the largest amount is undoubtedly the fattening eel feed, and the formula of this feed is 76.53% Egyptian pond lice meal, 2.18% Egyptian pond lice oil, 2.12% tapioca starch, 9.69% high-gluten wheat flour, 3.24% brewer's yeast, cheese Vegetarian sodium is 0.86%, pork liver powder is 1.67%, and the rest are various vitamins, minerals and trace compounds.
This formula seems to be very different from the current mainstream adult eel feed formula, especially the amount of fish meal is reduced by 3.47%.
But in fact, Jiang Miao's formula is the most powerful. It can basically make eels grow from leaf eels to mature white eels of about 1.5 to 1.8 kilograms within 6 months.
The normal cycle of eel farms is about one year, and an average of 2.5 tons of feed is consumed per ton of mature eels.
Using the eel feed prepared by Jiang Miao can reduce the feed by about 30% during the entire growth cycle, that is, only 1.85 tons of fish feed is needed, which in disguise reduces the cost of breeding. There is a huge gap in the feed-to-meat ratio between fish feed produced by other companies and fish feed produced by Hailufeng Company.
One is 1:2.5.
One is 1:1.85.
It seems that the difference is only 0.65, but in fact this gap is very large. You must know that the current market price of fish feed for eels is generally around 11,000 to 14,000 yuan per ton.
Reducing feed consumption by 0.65 means that the cost of mature white eels per ton has dropped by nearly 10,000 yuan.
Moreover, the fish feed produced by Hailufeng Company has another advantage, that is, the time cost is halved. Originally, only one crop of eels could be raised per year, but now two crops can be raised per year.
Coupled with fish feed that can remove the earthy smell, it is simply a rhythm of killing.
Of course, considering the issue of comprehensive benefits, the price of the feed produced by the company must not be too low. The market price per ton is at least 15,000 yuan.
This price is still a huge advantage compared to those low-priced eel feeds of 12,000 per ton, because the dosage is reduced, the production cycle only takes about half a year, and the comprehensive benefits are very significant.
Especially for the deodorized feed in the later period, the company's cost accounting and product pricing office initially priced it at 20,000 yuan per ton, which is the same price as Haixue feed.
As long as you follow the eel farming technology provided by Hailufeng Company, the entire production cycle for farmers will be 7 months.
1st month: During the growth period of young eels, use sea snow feed.
2nd to 6th month: Leaf eel fattening period, use fattening feed.
The 7th month: the fishy eel removal period, use fishy removal feed.
Based on the final harvest of one ton of mature white eels, it takes approximately 0.1 tons of sea snow feed, 1.45 tons of fattening feed, and 0.3 tons of deodorized feed, totaling 1.85 tons of feed. The total feed cost is 28,250 yuan.
At present, Jiang Miao has applied for hundreds of related eel feed formulas, almost blocking the possibility of imitation by latecomers.
If they don't apply for so many patents, other feed factories can produce similar eel feed by adding useless ingredients and slightly adjusting other ingredients.
Therefore, the frantic Jiang Miao filled in all the possible pitfalls, making it impossible for other feed mills to circumvent his patented formula.
After all, the formula of these eel feeds is so valuable that it can allow eels to grow to 1.5 to 1.8 kilograms in about half a year, and the value is very huge.
The formula of this kind of feed that needs to be sold outside must not be kept secret.
Large-scale registration of formula patents has become an inevitable choice.
After all, this is different from eel breeding technology. If others produce eel breeding technology secretly, it will be difficult for Hailufeng Company to investigate and collect evidence.
But this kind of fish feed that needs to be sold on a large scale cannot be produced secretly by other feed factories. As long as it is sold on the market, it is easy to investigate and collect evidence.
What's more, Jiang Miao's feeds also have some hidden technologies, which cannot be copied casually according to the formula.
This involves the issue of raw materials for fish feed.
Take the formulation of fattening feed as an example.
The formula is 76.53% pond lice powder, 2.18% Egyptian pond lice oil, 2.12% tapioca starch, 9.69% high-gluten wheat flour, 3.24% beer yeast, 0.86% casein sodium, 1.67% pork liver powder, and the rest are various vitamins, minerals and trace compounds.
Doesn’t this look like a good imitation?
But Jiang Miao will not tell outsiders that he uses Egyptian pond lice fish meal and fish oil, tapioca starch and wheat flour from specific origins.
Many people may think that aren’t they all fishmeal, fish oil, and starch flour?
However, there is a huge difference in reality.
The vast majority of imported fishmeal and fish oil are made from sardines. The protein type, protein ratio, and oil type and ratio of sardines are different from those of Egyptian pond lice.
Moreover, the degree of maturation and processing technology of the fishmeal and fish oil from the Egyptian pond lice during the secondary processing will also make these raw materials more suitable for eels.
Both seem to be fishmeal and fish oil, but when it comes to deep-level bioavailability, trace elements, and vitamins, there are obvious differences between the two.
This difference is really not noticeable for ordinary feed.
But Jiang Miao's formula is designed based on eel genes, which can maximize the health and rapid growth of eels.
If sardine fish meal and fish oil are used as raw materials to replace Egyptian pond lice fish meal and fish oil, the effect will be worse. In addition, other raw materials such as tapioca starch, wheat flour, vitamins, and minerals have not been adjusted, which will increase the eel fattening time by about 32%.
This is the so-called miss, a thousand miles difference.
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Walk, walk.
The group saw the factory next door.
The factory next door is on the south side of the feed factory and is also next to the highway. It was acquired by Hailufeng Company a week ago, but its area is smaller than that of the feed factory, covering an area of only 89 acres.
However, the company has already negotiated with the Yan Town Village Committee and Magong Town Government to contract the surrounding 200 acres of land as the indoor breeding base of Hailufeng Company.
The factory next door is currently being renovated. This factory is a new factory used by canneries, mainly producing fish ball series products.
The 200 acres of land near the fish ball factory is used as a simple indoor breeding farm, specifically used to breed the purchased Egyptian pond lice.
The Egyptian pond lice planned to be cultured in simple indoor farms are not raw materials for feed mills, but raw materials for fish pellet factories.
After all, the Egyptian pond lice purchased from outside have a very strong earthy smell. In order to remove the earthy smell from their bodies, they must be raised in a clear pool for a month and add special feed to remove the earthy smell from the Egyptian pond lice. reduced to about 1% of the original level.
This requires a simple indoor breeding farm.
Fortunately, Egyptian pond lice do not need to be as delicate as eels, and they do not need too strict temperature and salinity control. They only need to keep the water in the pool clean, which reduces a large part of the electricity and equipment costs.
There are other benefits to locating a feed mill, a fish pellet mill, and an Egyptian pond lice farm together.
For example, it is convenient to transport raw materials and make full use of raw materials.
The fish ball factory only needs fish meat from Egyptian pond lice, and the remaining fish skin, fish bones, fish heads, fish viscera and a small amount of leftover fish meat can all be sent to the feed factory to make fish meal and fish oil.
The scraps left over from canned eel production at the cannery can also be taken to the feed factory as raw materials.
This is the advantage of the industrial chain.
An aquaculture industry can diverge in the direction of feed, food processing, and food raw materials.
"Hai Bo, Lao Fang, in addition to high-end fish feed, some low-end fish feed must also be prepared for production, such as fattening fish feed for Egyptian pond lice."
Fang Yi immediately suggested: "Boss, our factory can also produce the No. 4 fish feed specially used by Egyptian pond lice, but I suggest we open a second factory! After all, the area of this factory is not enough."
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"Okay." Jiang Miao turned around and looked at Jiang Haibo: "Haibo, you can acquire an additional factory nearby as soon as possible to serve as the second feed factory."
"Okay." Jiang Haibo nodded. Anyway, there are many idle factories around. As long as you have money, you can easily find a suitable factory.
Regarding the Egyptian pond lice that can be harvested in about three months, Jiang Miao is actually not very satisfied with the breeding efficiency of individual farmers.
Mainly because many farmers use kitchen leftovers to feed Egyptian pond lice in order to save costs.
This kind of feeding feed that has not been processed and prepared will not only reduce the quality of fish meat of Egyptian pond lice, but also drag down the fattening efficiency.
Jiang Miao's improved No. 4 feed uses soybean meal, corn, cassava starch, and barley worm meal as raw materials, and uses barley worm meal instead of fish meal.
The market price is expected to be 6,000 yuan per ton.
Using No. 4 feed can make the Egyptian pond lice grow in about 3 months, and the yield per mu can reach about 15,000 kilograms.
The comprehensive feed cost for feeding is 2.4 tons of No. 4 feed, 3 to 4 tons of fresh sweet potatoes and sweet potato leaves, and 11 to 12 tons of Pennisetum grass powder, which adds up to a total of about 23,600.
Including other costs, the total breeding cost of 15 tons of Egyptian pond lice is between 26,000 and 28,000 yuan. The purchase price of Hailufeng Company is 3,000 yuan per ton. 15 tons can be sold for 45,000 yuan, with a gross profit of 1.7 to 1.9 yuan. Ten thousand yuan.
If concentrated feed is not used for feeding, the comprehensive cost of Egyptian pond lice per acre is about 0.6 to 7,000 yuan, and the gross profit is 0.8 to 9,000 yuan.
Hailufeng Company does not intend to force the farmers to not use concentrated feed. Anyway, when it is profitable, the farmers will take action themselves.
(End of chapter)