What made the American big agriculture?

What made the American big agriculture?

American agriculture - a country with a large area of ​​cultivated land in the world

The total land area of ​​the United States is 96.291 million hectares, of which the area of ​​cultivated land is 19.45 million hectares, accounting for 13.15% of the total area of ​​cultivated land in the world (150.15 million hectares). It is a country with a large area of ​​cultivated land in the world. The average cultivated land of the United States is 0.7 hectares (about 7,000 square meters), which is 2.9 times that of the world's per capita arable land (0.23 hectares), and more than eight times that of China's per capita arable land (1.3 city acres, about 865 square meters).

Nowadays, China imports a large amount of soybeans from the United States and Brazil in order to ensure the supply of food. There is also a forced fallow system in the United States, and China's cultivated land is basically difficult to get rested. In the whole year, except for crop dormancy, crops are almost always planted. Therefore, if there is a major crisis in the world, it is necessary to shut down the country, and China’s tolerance is much lower than that of the United States. It is also because of food, Japan and South Korea can only be affiliated countries of the United States, because their agricultural strength is too weak. If they do not import agricultural products from the United States, they will have higher prices for foods that are already relatively expensive in the country, and even fail to meet the nationals. Basic needs.

US Kuper Stock Farm - here is not only "planting" but also operating

Many people think that the US agriculture is worthy of our study, but some people think that because the United States has fewer people, the agriculture is doing well, and it is not the same as our national conditions. What do you think? For the time being, regardless of the relationship between the land, let me show you how the United States is doing farms. How do they do agriculture? What are we missing?

Iowa is located in the Great Plains region of the Midwestern United States. It is a large agricultural state and is located in the heart of the United States. It is known as the heart state. The soil here is fertile and rich in agricultural products. 20%-25% corn, 20% soybeans and 30% pork in the United States are produced in this state and are known as “granary in the United States”.

Reed Kuper's Kuper Stock Farm is one of Iowa's 120,000 farms, which grows corn and soybeans, not only with modern laboratories, fertilizer stations, machinery and grain stores, but also large livestock farms. The agricultural industrial chain and advanced management concepts have improved agricultural production efficiency and reduced production costs, and the farm's income is naturally considerable. Summarizing Kuper Stock Farm and American Big Agriculture, it is not only “planting” but also operating.

Modern business model makes great American agriculture

“A farmer can farm tens of thousands of acres of land, spray pesticides with planes, plant land with satellites, solve problems of pests and diseases with genetically modified technology, and then transport the produced agricultural products to the whole country and the world through long-distance transportation.” The epitome of farm cultivation, and behind this epitome, is the modern business model of American big agriculture.

The Kuper Stock Farm is a complete personal farm. The Reed Kuper family operates the entire farm. The 120,000 mu of cultivated land is fertilized with fertilizer, cultivated, planted, field managed, harvested, and so on. Only five of them need to be completed. The farm’s operations must be modernized. In the United States, there are more than 2 million farms like Kuper Stock, which are the support of American agriculture.

Under the current economic downturn in the United States, the development of these modern large farms is very good, creating American agriculture that has developed against the trend. Agriculture has become the second-best industry in the United States. Under the farm's modern business model, industrialization and mechanization reduced the cost of production. Scientific planting and management promoted the year-on-year increase in grain production, and farmers' incomes became more and more abundant.

The ratio of input to output has made large farmers such as Reed Kuper more dedicated to the operation of large farms, more and more investment, and better farm operations. Reed Kuper is very proud of his modern farm. He enthusiastically introduces his farm to the Stanley American Agricultural Practice Group, patiently explains and talks about their experience in planting and management. Reed Kuper himself loves agriculture very much, and even developed a remote control irrigation system, which can control irrigation directly from a mobile phone.

(Original title: American Agriculture tells us: How to do agriculture? Only to make money? - Ziniu Agriculture)