At present, most domestic beef cattle are still scattered in farmers' homes, and the feeding method of one cow per household greatly increases the feeding cost. In the pastures of foreign cattle-raising countries, the cost of raising cattle is much lower than that in China. In addition, various factors are involved, such as productivity and diversity. American beef is so cheap because it has three advantages.

The feeding cost is low. In the United States, cattle industry mostly adopts industrial chain scale to raise cattle. Feed mainly comes from our own crops, such as all kinds of straw feed, grain feed, pasture feed, etc., thus saving most of the feed costs. Due to the limitation of conditions, the cattle industry in China is not suitable for raising cattle in the form of large-scale industrial chain. In addition, in the United States, the low cost of cultivated land is very high, so the cost of raising cattle in the United States is very low. In addition to reducing the cost of large-scale feeding of feed, this may be an easily overlooked factor.

Clenbuterol is allowed. The United States is one of the few countries in the world that allows the use of clenbuterol. After using lean meat essence, the growth rate of muscle and feed conversion rate will be greatly improved. The final slaughter rate can be increased by more than 5%, the lean meat rate can be increased by more than 8%, and the feed conversion rate can be increased by more than 10%. As early as 2002, China banned the addition of "Clenbuterol" products to feed. Of course, it is not excluded that some cattle farms are secretly added and used, but overall, the proportion is still relatively low.

Advantages of industrial comprehensive production performance. The cattle industry in the United States has a high understanding of improved breeding. Cattle varieties have been bred by several generations of ranchers, and their production performance has been continuously improved. Considering the comprehensive production performance such as individual size, growth rate, feed conversion rate and slaughter rate, the cattle industry in the United States can be almost twice as large as that in China. The awareness of improved varieties in cattle industry in China is very poor. Although beef cattle have been introduced in batches for decades, the overall improvement process of cattle is still very slow. Only Jilin, Liaoning and Shandong can barely meet the requirements of improved varieties.

From this point of view, on the one hand, it is necessary to improve the scale of beef cattle breeding, on the other hand, it is necessary to open up the whole industrial chain from pasture and feed planting to beef cattle breeding to back-end beef processing and feeding. Sales effectively reduced the cost of the whole process. In order to reach the level of cost increase in developed countries. Although American beef is cheap, it is mainly frozen meat imported from China and mainly produced locally in the field of fresh meat. Therefore, the development of beef cattle industry in China is full of hope and confidence.