Biotite V = high quality beef meat production!

  “Information exchange among farms is competitiveness”

  Paksan Farm is standing at the foot of Bakjok Mountain, located in Chungbuk, Cheongwon-gun, Gadeok-myeon, where Mr. Lim, the owner, highlights the importance of right-away-applicable information exchange among farms to secure profits increase. It can reduce a lot of trial and errors.

  Mr. Lim started farm business with five Korean Cows and now is raising 70 Koreans Cows on his 530m2 wide intensive shed. Besides, he is cultivating 20,000m2 of land for vegetables and rice. Mr. Lim is a typical complex agriculture businessman in Korea.

  To learn new skills and technical knowledge, he reads livestock magazines and attends lots of seminars, but he says the theories in magazines and books are so different from the real situations of farms. Whenever he hears the lectures at seminars they seemed to be very helpful for the farm management. However, many of them were useless in his farm.

  Mr. Lim told, “Though I understand why the lecturers don’t indicate a certain company’s products, only when farmers can test the products under their own actual farm conditions, the lecture is helpful if the lecture is for the profits of farmers.”

  Mr. Lim emphasizes useful information exchange among farms. In many cases, farms in a same area have similar problems and solving those problems is critical in successful business. Mr. Lim believes that without clearing up the problems, Korean Cow industry, for sure, will wither away because of the invasion of cheap foreign animal foods.

  He is planning to publish a book with his information. How to start a Korean Cow business, suggestions, problems and solutions, etc. will be included in the book. This book is not only for the needs of farm management, but also for the competitiveness improvement of Korean Cow industry.

  Mr. Lim suggested “Biotite V” of SoltoBio (President: Winston Jung) as one of the information exchanges.

  The biggest difference after Biotite V inclusion in feed is the meat quality enhancement. Before Biotite V, Jan 23, 2003, his 8 cows graded one A1+, one A1, and six Bs and back fat thickness ranged from 8mm to 13mm. The next day, another 8 cows graded like a day before: one A1+, two A2s, four Bs. Of course, the variations of back fat thickness were from 5mm to 20mm, much wider. The result of Jan 31, 2003 was almost same with Jan 23 and 24.

  After March 19, the starting day of Biotite V inclusion, however, cow grade doesn’t go under A. Rarely, one or two cows graded B. Literally, profits increased.

  Most eminent change after Biotite V is homogeneity of back fat thickness. The back fat of cows only varied from 7mm to 9mm (refer to table 2). And A1+ grade of only 27months old cow was the moment of full-scale use of Biotite V inclusion. He is now carefully filing information about Biotite V to exchange it with his neighboring farms.

  “At first, I was not sure of the claiming effects of Biotite V, but right now I’m definitely sure of the efficacy”, and, “the improvement in farm management and increased profits are the changes Biotite V has brought in.”, Mr. Lim expressed. Furthermore, he stressed on, “Proper Biotite V addition and finding good breeds seem to be important in Korean Cow business,” and “I want to let many people know my high quality meat production skills for their profits and the competitiveness of Korean Cows.”

  Decreased feces and flies eased the farm management works after Biotite V use.

  Though he can’t concentrate on cow farm management because of his land cultivation works for vegetables and rice, the cow grade was good and feces handling jobs became easy with Biotite V inclusion in feed.

  He told, “Though all diseases have been originated from the small and intensive shed system, it is really hard to gain profits without using the system in Korea. Reality doesn’t allow animal farmers to abandon small and intensive shed system.”

  Mr. Lim continuously emphasized, “Biotite V seems to be effective in enhancing the immune system of animal body. Regarding antibiotics, seldom did I use it except for the time of calf, but mortality rate plunged down.”

  Another thing what he is praising about is an OEM feed “ChungPungMyungWol”. His evaluation on the feed is simple. The quality is good enough for the low price. Consequently, the feed brought to him US$ 440 much more profits per a month. Specially made for the unique conditions of the area (Chungbuk province), the feed gives additional profits to Korean Cow farms. Mr. Lim said, “Synergy between Biotite V and ChungPungMyungWol is expected to and I will focus on finding much more effective ways for farming with sufficient data.”

  Mr. Lim hopes Korean Cow industry to become a business which guarantees handsome returns. He also pointed out that competitiveness should be equipped in the industry for the goal.