Joint breeding China's dairy industry tackles the "cow chip"

"BDCC stands for Beijing Dairy Center, HS stands for Holstein Dairy Breed, and 17 represents the year of birth of this breeding bull.
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" On August 31, Zhong Daibin, deputy director of the base breeding bull station, explained the digital information
on a dose of frozen essence products on the observation deck of the Yanqing Base of Beijing Dairy Center.
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the barn 100 meters away from the observation deck, there are 260 breeding bulls
worth more than one million.
They are a valuable resource
for the Beijing Dairy Center and even the national dairy cattle breeding industry.
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Industry data show that the stock of Holstein dairy cattle in China is about 6 million heads, and the annual demand for frozen sperm is more than 8 million doses, but 70% of the frozen essence comes from foreign imports
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In the industry's view, China's dairy cattle breeding technology has been realized and run with developed dairy industries, but there are still shortcomings
in the production performance of offspring, genetic testing chips, sexual control patented technology, and dairy cattle breeding resources.
At present, several major animal husbandry groups in China are investing in
competition with imported seed sources through joint breeding.
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percent of frozen essence relies on imported ASk China Feed Industry Information Network - based on feed, serving livestock A
dose of frozen essence is only 0.
25 ml, but it determines the production performance of the next generation of cows, and also represents the competitive level
of dairy breeding.
ASk China Feed Industry Information Network - Based on feed, serving livestock "The
genetic improvement of dairy cattle breeding population is achieved by seed freezing essence, and frozen essence comes from excellent breeding bulls, and the cultivation of excellent breeding bulls depends on excellent seed cows
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" According to the data mastered by Ma Zhu, director of Beijing Dairy Center and vice president of Beijing Shounong Animal Husbandry Development Co.
, Ltd.
, at present, China has selected a total of 16 national dairy cattle core breeding farms, with 19 breeding bull stations with dairy cow freeze essence production qualifications, with an annual output of 15 million doses
of frozen essence.
The stock of Holstein dairy cattle in China is about 6 million heads, and the annual demand for frozen sperm is between 8 million doses and 9 million doses, which means that the existing breeding bull station capacity has been seriously overproduced
.
Even so, China still imports 70% of the frozen essence from abroad every year, and the cost of this alone is more than 500 million yuan
.
ASk China Feed Industry Information Network - Based on Feed, Serving Animal Husbandry In August 2022, the General Office of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs issued the "Notice on Supporting the Development of National Seed Industry Formation Enterprises", including Shou Agriculture and Animal Husbandry
, Guangming Animal Husbandry, Saike Xing, etc.
7 enterprises have been included in the "short board" formation
.
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Ma Zhu told the Beijing News reporter that China has initially established a dairy cattle breeding cattle independent breeding system, even if the import of frozen sperm is stopped, domestic frozen essence can also be self-sufficient
.
However, there is still a gap between
the production performance of domestic dairy cattle breeding sources and that of developed countries in the dairy industry.
In 2021, the average annual yield of adult cows in China will reach 8.
7 tons, exceeding the Australian level and close to the European level, but the difference from the North American level is about 1.
5 tons
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In addition, there are also shortcomings
in feed conversion rate, cow health and production life, reproductive performance and other aspects.
Because the cost of frozen semen accounts for a very low proportion of dairy farming costs, coupled with the blind belief that "imports are good", to a certain extent, domestic frozen sperm faces an unfavorable competitive situation
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"There are two kinds of bull frozen essence, one is ordinary frozen essence used in commercial pastures, and the other is breeding bull frozen essence
used to breed bulls.
Some small domestic pastures 60%-70% use imported frozen essence, the proportion of group pastures used is more than 80%, and breeding bull frozen essence is 100% dependent on imports
.
"Su Yanjing, director of the Shanghai Dairy Research Institute of Guangming Animal Husbandry, believes that the dependence of China's dairy cattle breeding industry on imported frozen sperm will have a serious impact on
national independent breeding enterprises.
" If this state of affairs continues, our own breeding seeds can not be sold, breeding enterprises will have problems, the future of China's dairy cattle breeding source market is likely to be monopolized by foreign enterprises, and then lose the pricing power, the seed source rate of the impact, this is why we want to talk about the revitalization
of the seed industry.
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On March 21, 1973, based on the North Suburb Farm Breeding
Bull Station, the Beijing Municipal State Farm Dairy Cattle Breeding Group from the Southern Suburbs Farm, Among the more than 120 bulls in the farm-level breeding bull stations such as Shuangqiao Farm, more than 20 outstanding bulls were strictly selected to form the country's first provincial and municipal breeding bull station
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With this as a starting point, China's dairy cattle systematic breeding industry has gone through 50 years
.
ASk China Feed Industry Information Network - Based on Feed, Serving Animal Husbandry In Ma Zhu's view, compared with developed countries in the dairy industry, China's
dairy cattle breeding history is short, but it has made important contributions to
the dairy cattle breeding industry.
"The import of frozen essence is a matter of nearly ten years, before that, more than 90% of China's dairy cattle breeding group improved the use of domestic frozen semen
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" Relying on the improvement of domestic frozen essence, the average yield of dairy cows in the country increased from less than 3 tons in 2000 to 8.
3 tons
in 2010.
"ASk China Feed Industry Information Network - Based on Feed, Service Animal Husbandry In the course of this 50-year development, Beijing Dairy
Cow Center has participated in 3 technical iterations, taking the lead in carrying out body shape and appearance identification, descendant determination, production performance determination, embryo engineering technology development and other work in China, as the main completion of the construction of China's only official Holstein cattle genome selection technology system, the relevant achievements won the first prize of the National Science and Technology Progress 1 time, the second prize
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, serving animal husbandry "There is no gap between China's dairy cattle breeding technology and foreign countries, and it is running side by side in terms of fine seed resources, algorithms, evaluation models, gene technology, etc.
, but there is still a 'card neck' problem
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" Ma Zhu frankly said that China's current testing chips for dairy cow genome selection are all dependent on imports, "If foreign countries do not provide chips, the current dairy cow breeding work will be suspended
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" Although there has not been a supply cut, if we entrust foreign companies to conduct genetic testing, we cannot control the timeliness, and there are potential risks
to genetic information security.
"In addition to the gene chip, the semen semen control separation technology of breeding bulls is currently in the hands of foreign companies," which is also the card point
that needs to be broken through in the revitalization of dairy cattle breeding in China.
ASk China Feed Industry Information Network - Based on Feed, Serving Livestock Guangming Animal Husbandry's
dairy cattle breeding work also began in the 1970s
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Su Yanjing said that at present, the breeding direction of Guangming Animal Husbandry is in line with international standards, so it has increased the introduction of high-quality dairy cattle breeding embryos from overseas, and the number of imported embryos is about 150 per year, with a cost of about 20,000 yuan per piece, so as to establish a core breeding group of breeding cows, and the average
annual yield of the sprint head is 14 tons.
"The core group is generally 3 years old, and bull breeding usually takes 5 years to see good or bad
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We can't predict that we will be able to achieve the goal through several generations of selection, but foreign breeding companies are improving, and we want to progress, which is a competition
without end.
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In Ma Zhu's
view, dairy cattle breeding is the most important thing is talent, which coincides
with Su Yanjing's view.
ASk China Feed Industry Information Network - Based on Feed, Serving Animal Husbandry After graduating from graduate school in 2006, Ma Zhu entered the Beijing Dairy
Cow Center to engage in dairy cow embryo engineering technology development and fine seed breeding related work, and has insisted on it until now
.
In addition to serving as the chief animal pastor of Sanyuan Co.
, Ltd.
, he is also the director of the National Dairy Cow Embryo Engineering Technology Research Center and the director of the Breeding Professional Committee of
the China Dairy Association.
ASk China Feed Industry Information Network - Based on feed, serving livestock "Dairy
cattle breeding is very boring, is a resource-dependent, technology-intensive, long-term investment work, so feelings are very important, to have the mission of improving the country's independent breeding capacity
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" Ma Zhu said that the happiest moment of doing breeding work was when the breeding bulls were recognized by the market, "In 2009, when I worked at the Beijing Dairy Center, I personally came to guide the delivery of each breeding bull, just like
I treated my own children.
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shows that hemp column guides the delivery of babiesBatch breeding of bulls, the production performance of offspring is more prominent
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Shounong Animal Husbandry now has 90,000 dairy cows, more than 90% of which are bred using self-produced frozen semen, with an average yield of 11.
5 tons in 2021, which has reached the advanced level of
North American countries.
Such a large group of production performance indicators have also been recognized by
the market.
At present, in the domestic market, Shounong livestock frozen essence products account for about 40% of the sales scale of domestic frozen semen, and can maintain profitability and benign operation
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Ma Zhu believes that the progress of dairy cattle breeding in China depends on the progress
of dairy cattle breeding.
After 2008, the level of dairy farming in China has been improved, but for a long time the breeding industry and the
breeding industry have been broken.
"The key to dairy cattle breeding is excellent breeding bulls, which need to rely on large-scale cow resource groups to implement high-intensity breeding, but breeding companies often do not master downstream resources, which leads to breeding and breeding 'two layers of skin'
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" ASk China Feed Industry Information Network - Based on feed, serving livestock With the large-scale animal husbandry group to carry out the whole industry chain layout, more and more attention is paid to improving production performance, in 2016, led by Shounong Animal Husbandry
to establish the dairy cattle breeding independent innovation alliance, together with Mengniu, Ningxia Helan Mountain, Beidahuang Group and other dairy cattle breeding enterprises to form the largest domestic dairy cattle breeding vertical consortium
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"The yield level of our alliance leads the country, and the contribution rate of fine seeds to the improvement of production performance accounts for more than
40%.
" Ma Zhu said
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ASk China Feed Industry Information Network - Based on Feed, Serving Animal Husbandry In July 2022, Shounong Animal Husbandry and Modern Animal Husbandry
announced the establishment of a joint venture company to build China's largest dairy cattle breeding resource group
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According to Gu Yao, chief breeder of modern animal husbandry, the goal of modern animal husbandry is the development of the whole industrial chain, with the help of the breeding talents and technical reserves of Shou Agriculture and Animal Husbandry, "in the future, both sides will have 600,000 dairy cattle resources, accounting for about 1/10
of the domestic dairy cattle stock.
" By selecting the cows that breed excellent bulls from these 600,000 cows, or provide donors for embryo transfer, we will have a better chance of breeding better and better breeds
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on the frozen essence products
of Beijing Dairy Center on August 31.
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August 31, Beijing Dairy Center Yanqing Base Cow Herd
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