1.Significant Cost Advantage
Reduces Feed Costs: This is the most direct advantage. Complete feed requires feed mills to handle the entire chain of procurement, crushing, mixing, pelleting, packaging, transportation, and sales, each adding cost. Using premix allows farmers to purchase bulk raw materials like corn, soybean meal, and wheat bran directly from local sources, saving on intermediate processing, packaging, and partial transportation fees. The total cost per ton of feed is typically reduced by 200-500 RMB or more.
Reduces Capital Tie-up: Premix is used in small quantities (usually 1%-5% of the complete feed), allowing for bulk purchasing and inventory. Bulk materials can be purchased flexibly based on market price fluctuations and cash flow.
2.Strong Raw Material and Quality Control
Direct Oversight of Bulk Material Quality: Farmers can personally select and control the quality of primary ingredients like corn (checking for mold, moisture content) and soybean meal (protein content, freshness), ensuring feed safety from the source.
Mitigates Storage and Transportation Risks: Nutrients in complete feed can degrade during long-distance transport and storage due to moisture, mold, or fat oxidation. Sourcing fresh materials locally and mixing them for immediate use maximizes feed freshness and nutritional efficacy.
Adapts to Market Volatility: When the price of a certain raw material (e.g., soybean meal) is high, farmers can use partial alternative ingredients under nutritional guidance, offering greater flexibility.
3.Flexible and Highly Targeted Formulation
Adaptation to Local Conditions: Allows for the partial substitution with locally available, low-cost agricultural by-products (e.g., rice bran, cassava residue, DDGS) to design the most cost-effective diet.
Adaptation to Timing: Enables rapid adjustment of the major ingredient formula and inclusion rates according to different growth stages (e.g., suckling, weaned, finishing pigs), seasons, or even health status (e.g., stress periods, recovery), facilitating precision feeding.
Meets Specific Needs: Allows for the convenient addition of therapeutic medications (where permitted by regulations), functional additives (e.g., probiotics, enzymes, herbal extracts), or products to address specific issues.
4.More Precise and Efficient Nutrition
High Technical Content of Premix Itself: Premix is a uniform blend of micro-ingredients like vitamins, minerals, amino acids, and medicinal additives. Produced by professional companies with precision equipment and technology, it guarantees the stability, uniformity, and high efficacy of these core components, which is difficult for farmers to achieve independently.
Avoids Nutrient Loss: The high temperature and pressure during the pelleting process of complete feed can destroy some heat-sensitive nutrients (e.g., certain vitamins, enzymes, probiotics). Using premix, often fed as mash after mixing or pelleted on-farm, reduces these losses.
Post time: Dec-17-2025
