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« on: January 26, 2008, 06:06:18 PM »

Hellow Sir,
Greetings!!!!
Can i have your favorable advice for my small venture as for my backyard raising and if possible the source of this good breed likewise, the nearest source. Actually i'am from Umingan Pangasinan i have a plan to put up this venture which i think can help my family as far as financial is concerned. I'm planning to buy 3 good breed a fast growing breed and if possible the system that i will under take to make it happen in just a short span of time 6 months-7 months.
Thank you and more power and God bless.
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« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2008, 02:16:19 PM »

Hellow Sir,
Greetings!!!!
Can i have your favorable advice for my small venture as for my backyard raising and if possible the source of this good breed likewise, the nearest source. Actually i'am from Umingan Pangasinan i have a plan to put up this venture which i think can help my family as far as financial is concerned. I'm planning to buy 3 good breed a fast growing breed and if possible the system that i will under take to make it happen in just a short span of time 6 months-7 months.
Thank you and more power and God bless.
I remain.



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« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2008, 05:42:08 PM »

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No pork for one week makes a man weak!!!
Baboy= Barako, inahin, fattener, kulig
Pig feeds=Breeder/gestating, lactating, booster, prestarter, starter, grower, finisher.
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« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2008, 01:22:05 PM »

Hi, Nemo

I currently have 7 cows, all female. Four in Alfonso,Cavite and 3 in Sta, Romblon.
Arrangement with the caretakers are the first calf goes to me, the second calf goes to the caretaker.

Any inputs related to this arrangement? Also, any inspection checklist or signs I should note when I check on the cows?

Also, can you also pm the answer you gave on the original query?

Thanks again.

 
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« Reply #4 on: August 22, 2008, 09:57:33 PM »

It is not advisable in any livestock business that a caretaker have his own stock/animal.

It is either you pay him monthly or 50/50 arrangement. Everything you earn will be divided equally.

Visual inspection, look at his backbone, ribs, rump area, if you could see the bone then the animal is thin.  Eyes should be alert and clear. There should be no wounds etc...

Sorry , i forgot my reply to the first post. and i cannot find the sent messages also.
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Pig feeds=Breeder/gestating, lactating, booster, prestarter, starter, grower, finisher.
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« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2008, 11:12:33 AM »

The Philippines’ Beef Cattle Industry
Posted by: Leo in Livestocks 4,543 Views
The Philippine beef cattle industry is predominantly of the smallhold or backyard type and traditionally led by the private sector Commercial feedlot fattening operation emerged and proliferated on account of the huge demand for meat and meat products. It is recognized as contributing to rural income and the efficient use of the available resources in the rural sector. Cattle as well as carabao are basic livestock occupying important role in the subsistence of rural families. They are raised for both purposes and source of cash in time of needs.

Three things accounted for this great demand–the ever increasing human population, changing eating habits of the Filipinos and import liberalization. It is however, heavily dependent on the importation of feeder stocks coming mostly from Australia. From 1990 to 1999, feeder cattle importation totalled to 1,290,633 head as against that of breeder cattle importation of only 54,560 head.

Cattle raising in the country is predominantly a backyard endeavor. They are usually maintained on a low to medium plane of nutrition. The are eitherstall-fed or tethered along roadsides and backyards with whatever available feed grown, not weeds and farm by-products like straw or corn stover, cane tops, etc. Concentrate feeding is minimal and inputs for health maintenance are generally lacking.

If has been evaluated, however, that beef cattle raising in the country has a comparative advantage over other animal production ventures considering the increasing demand for beef; ability to transform low-quality and fibrous feed materials; availability of other forages and favorable climate for fodder production and adequate processing technologies and increased productivity.

On the other hand, commercial ranches engaged in cattle raising are steadily decreasing in number. This is largely due to a combination of factors such as poor peace and order situation in production areas, implementation of the comprehensive agrarian reform law, land use conversion, lack of domestic source of quality stock, changing policies on pasture lease, increasing input costs and poor herd and pasture management among others. This scenario shrank the country’s cow-calf operations both in number and production performance.

Nevertheless current trends in the livestock industry show that the beef cattle sector has the biggest room for growth. The volume of production has been increasing from 232.34 (’000 t) in 1996 to 271.24 (’000 t) in 1999. The total output in 1999 was valued at P5.3 B. (October 2000)

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« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2008, 10:50:37 PM »

A Call for Cattle Revitalization
Now that cattle production in the country cannot cope with the market demand, what are the measures being done to revitalize the industry?

Based on data from the Bureau of Agricultural Statistics (BAS), the cattle industry contributed some P15.6 M gross value in 2007 to the livestock subsector. There was a decrease in the volume of production of around 1.84% in 2007 compared to that in 2006.


“Cattle production cannot cope with the demand. Part of the cattle being slaughtered is, in fact, part of our local herd,” Livestock Development Council Deputy Executive Director Felix Valenzuela said.

Despite the dip in the demand of local consumers for beef owing to economic difficulties since the past year that had caused them to go for pork and chicken meat, cattle production in the country still cannot cope with the demand.

Per capita consumption of meat figures according to BAS indicate that for beef it was only 1.84 kilograms in 1987 vis-a-vis that for pork at 13.9 kilograms and for chicken meat, almost 8 kilograms.

Is something being done about the state of cattle production?
The deputy executive director replied, “If I may borrow the words of the DA secretary, at this time, the effort of the Agriculture Department is more on the investment phase as we know that cattle is a long-term business so right now, the government is intending to import some stock and then infuse this into the local production.”

“We are looking at importing from the United States and Australia which are popular sources - for the US, under the USPL (US Public Law) 480 where the Philippines gets to import commodities to be monetized and treated as loan,” he added.

He shared that the government plans to import Brahman cattle and perhaps also some other adaptable tropical breed.  The preferred breed of raisers is the Brahman since it is highly adaptable to our local environment. There are reports that the backyard sector exhibits preference for the white variety with long ears and these are the dominant characteristics of Brahman.
There is more demand for Brahman in the auction market and it commands a higher value so Brahman has been a mainstay in the country.

Valenzuela explained that the cattle industry is a two-sector enterprise: commercial and backyard and that the backyard sector is predominant since it comprises 97% of today’s 2.5 million total estimated cattle inventory in the country. Majority of those in the commercial sector undertake breeding whereas fattening is channeled to the backyard sector so there is complementarity between the commercial and backyard sector.

The average increase in cattle inventory for the last 10 years is only 0.86% and the increase is only in the backyard sector. The commercial sector has been on a steady decline with only a slight increase in zoo6 and a decreasing inventory in 2007.

What problems plague the cattle industry?

“Actually, one of the present problems in the commercial sector is the adequacy of capital that is why one of the requests of some of our raisers is for the government to make credit available. Also, there are problems on squatting and, in some cases, peace and order.”

The director cited a major problem ailing the commercial sector that cropped LIP only lately as a result of a new law requiring pasture leases renewal to be subjected to the issuance of clearance from the National Commission of Indigenous Peoples (NCIP). Majority of those in the commercial sector rely on pasture lease agreements with the government that arc issued by the DENR. Most of the big tracks of land nationwide have IP claims and it is only the Masbate area that has no such claim. This inhibits the commercial cattle raisers from expanding.

When we talk about land issue for the commercial sector, we are talking about hundreds of hectares for commercial cattle business.

In contrast, for backyard raisers, land ownership is not an issue at all. There are lots of backyard cattle raisers who do not own any piece of land. That is the case in Batangas where some of the people who are into cattle raising do not own any land. They can manage to fatten cattle through what we call zero grazing. The raiser gets forages anywhere and brings these to his cattle. Zero grazing means bringing the grass to the cattle and not bringing the cattle to grassy fields. As long as one is industrious to bring grass to his cattle, his business will thrive since there is no other further need for capital infusion except to acquire additional cattle material for expansion.

The cattle business has a great attraction on a backyard scale. “There is money in it,” shared Deputy Executive Director Valenzuela.

“Invest in cattle and it can sell very quickly: in as short as two months for those who introduce feed concentrates and longer for those who rely only on forage or grass feeding”

With farmers, however, the cattle is kept longer, even beyond six months since it is used as a farm animal before they bring it to the auction market or offer it to their neighbors.

Compared to poultry farm or swine business, cattle fattening is less cumbersome. The only issue is the capitalization required for the initial stock. One may just rely on grasses and established pastures so practically, there is little capital involved in the cattle business.

“The average price of imported cattle is $2.30 per kilogram. That is almost the same as the price of cattle here, which is more than P80 per kilogram - almost P100 - say, P90 per kilogram, to be conservative for profit reckoning purposes.”

As Executive Director Felix Valenzuela said, ideal materials for fattening are those that weigh 310 - 350 kilograms. The average price of a good fattening material is from P30,000 to P40.000. These are fattened for 2 - 4 months, or longer.

“With good feed and forages, a cattle can get around to having a weight gain of from .7 to 1 kilogram per day so if one fattens it for 120 days, multiplied by .7 kilogram, that would be 84 kilograms increase in weight, more or less. If we multiply 84 by the cattle price of say, P90 per kilogram, the yield would be P7,560. Just deduct the cost of the feed component and you arrive at a still-big profit.”

Pure grass feeding will result in lower weight gain of say, .4 to .5 kilograms per day

The profit would all depend on the weight gain in the case of the fattening business. The longer fattening is undertaken, the more the weight gain and the higher the profit one can expect. Investment in fattening after the initial capitalization for the purchase of the stock is nil, if one decides on using only forage for feeding. The cattle can just graze in any grassy land available, not necessarily land owned by the person who owns the cattle.

In slaughtered cattle, according to Deputy Executive Director Valenzuela, the rule of thumb is 50% recovery rate. Sold and used as beef thus would be in the vicinity of 180-210 kilograms.

“Beef “sold in the country’s public markets are guaranteed safe from the dreaded mad cow disease,” he declared.

“We have what we call bio-security measures being implemented by the government. Right now, there is no incidence and no threat of the mad cow problem. The beef consuming public is assured that whenever there are countries identified to have mad cow disease incidence, all our importation, whether these are for breeding or for fattening, are immediately cut off.”

Most importantly, the government has strategies for improving the quality of materials for both backyard and commercial cattle ventures. These include the genetic improvement program - the introduction of good genetic material into the existing herd to improve our animals - as the centerpiece agenda. The government resorts to importation as part of the strategies to augment the present level of production of cattle. Investments in improving the breed of cattle produced in the country is an ongoing program that is’ considered a priority.

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« Reply #7 on: March 23, 2009, 01:09:13 PM »

Private sector cattle dispersal
The government is not exactly efficient in implementing cattle dispersal program. Dr. Emil Q. Javier, president of the National Academy of Science and Technology, has provided us figures that 88 percent of cattle dispersed by the government were not paid back. And that’s probably why Sen. Edgardo Angara stopped the DA’s dispersal program when he became the Secretary of Agriculture in 1999.

Private individuals are proving to be better at cattle dispersing. One fellow we met lately is Dr. Guin Gerona, a retiree from the Visayas State University, who is now doing his own brand of farming in Sogod, Southern Leyte.

While still employed, Dr. Gerona started his cattle dispersal project in the mid-1980s with five heifers. Today, he has a total of 75 head, including males. Of this number, 38 are female breeders most of which are in the care of other farmers under the so-called “paiwi” system.

The usual “paiwi” scheme is for the owner of the animal to get the first offspring if the animal is already mature when it was given to the farmer. The next offspring would be kept by the caretaker. According, to Dr. Gerona, there is a more equitable scheme of sharing the calves that are born.

n his case, he and the owner have an equal share of every calf born. A valuation of the young animal is made. If it is sold, they divide the proceeds. If one of them opt to keep the animal, the other should be paid by the fellow who wants to keep the animal. Most of the time, though, it’s Dr. Gerona ending as the buyer.

Dr. Gerona feels his system is better. For one thing, the farmer does not have to wait a long time to have his share. For another, the caretaker might not take good care of the calf allocated to the owner of the mother cow if the usual practice is observed.

Another successful private fellow who has been successful in cattle dispersal is Mrs. Lydia Lapastora of Soliven, Isabela. In 1996, she started her project with P20,000 with which she bought six young heifers. Today, she has 15 breeders under the care of other farmers.

If private individuals doing their dispersal programs could be multiplied many times over in various parts of the country, the local cattle population will increase tremendously. What the government should do is to help the private sector to acquire improved animals and provide access to reasonable financing.

Written by Zac Sarian

Source: Manila Bulletin

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