It was past three in the afternoon when we left Bullet Farm.
The two of them went to the city to buy some daily necessities...
Bed sheets, bedding, daily necessities, vegetables and grains. Chen Mo wanted to buy rice, but no one in this remote place ate rice, so he had no choice but to sell it.
The city of Harlowton is really a small place, not as prosperous as Chen Mo's hometown. However, although the place is small and there are not many people, it does have car sales stores, movie theaters, etc.
After shopping, Chen Mo and the others had dinner by the way, and it was already dark when they returned to Judith.
Judithga is a small town with very few residents. At night, the only place to have fun is in the town's bar.
"Boss..." After a day together, Canlby and Chen Mo got to know each other well and shouted in blunt Chinese.
"Um?"
"It's getting dark. My home is in a small town... How about we go have a drink and stay at my house for the night."
"OK."
There are no homes within a few kilometers of Snow Mountain Ranch, and Chen Mo is really not used to living alone there.
It was a small bar with many cars parked outside. When I opened the door and walked in, I saw people sitting together, drinking and chatting.
The decoration of the bar is very old, much like an old bar scene in an American western movie. There are many photos posted on the left wall, some of which are still in black and white.
"These are mostly photos of tourists. When you drive by here when you are traveling, you can hang your own photos on the wall for only $5, and keep them forever..." Canlby introduced to Chen Mo, and they went to the bar together.
When someone was drinking, someone looked over and said, "Hi, Canlby, long time no see. Come and have a drink."
"Later."
The bar owner was a bearded man and said with a smile on his face: "How dare you come out to drink without fear of Mary spanking you?"
"Asshole!" Canlby cursed fiercely: "Lawrence, the owner of the bar, knows almost everyone in the town... This is my boss, Mo. Chen Mo... from the great China, a newbie at Snow Mountain Ranch.
The master of.”
Canlby's voice was loud and once again attracted the attention of many people. Several people who knew Canlby came over with wine glasses, put their hands on Canlby's shoulders, and looked at Chen Mo with a smile: "Hello, Mr. Chen Mo,
My name is Roger, rancher at Roger Fork Ranch. Welcome to Montana and our beautiful Judith Valley.”
"Thank you..." Chen Mo smiled and responded with the most basic courtesy, asked the bar owner for two glasses of whiskey, and sat down at the bar.
There is a small population in a small place, so it is difficult to know who you don’t know when living here.
At least Canlby knew all the people drinking in the bar today. He went over to say hello to his acquaintances and treat everyone present to a glass of whiskey, mainly to celebrate that he had found a job.
When it comes to Sino-US trade issues, most farmers in the United States are in dire straits.
Like the previous owners of Snow Mountain Ranch, their family grew American ginseng, and the situation was even worse. Marathon County is the largest ginseng planting base in the United States and the largest American ginseng planting area in the world, with more than 80% of the ginseng sold to China. Listen to them
It is said that China has stopped importing American ginseng, and the local American ginseng that has been picked is piled up in warehouses and cannot be sold...
Montana's agriculture has also been greatly affected.
But those are official issues, and ordinary people are just fish in the pond. Moreover, it is the White House that instigates the trade war. In Montana and other states that are mainly agricultural, there is no good impression of Trump.
The small town of Judithga even has some particularly outrageous prank portraits.
"Snow Mountain Ranch is a big guy. It's not easy to run the ranch now. The prices of pasture and feed have been rising in recent years. Especially the price of pasture is twice what it was three years ago..." Roger thought for a moment and smiled. Liao smiled: "Is your ranch going to raise cattle or sheep, or grow ginseng? I heard that the ginseng grown in Snow Mountain Ranch is a variety from Baiyun Mountain (Changbai Mountain) in China?" Roger's ranch is next to Snow Mountain Ranch, and there is also a forest. .
Chen Mo shrugged his shoulders and smiled: "I don't know much about ginseng. I'm going to raise some cattle and sheep first to see what's going on."
Every other row is like a mountain. Ginseng is a product with national cultural characteristics and is regarded as a high-end health product in the eyes of the Chinese. However, Americans did not take it seriously until the American Herbal Research Foundation published the "Green Book of Herbal Information", which listed ginseng as a high-end health product. "The most famous herb in the world" and for the first time called an "adaptive" herb...
Someone is planting ginseng in Montana, in the Little Rocky Mountains. The scale of planting is small, the quantity is small, and it is not well-known. Roger was also very anxious during this time, thinking about how to change the operating conditions of the ranch...
"Nowadays, many traditional ranches have changed their businesses. They are either engaged in tourism, grazing in large areas, or even building irrigation systems for planting... My ranch has 100 purebred Angus cattle. If you need to buy cattle, please contact me. "Roger raised his glass and touched Chen Mo's glass lightly.
Chen Mo smiled and nodded.
It’s really a shame that the cattle that you worked so hard to raise cannot be sold.
Someone has done some calculations and found that traditional pastures are becoming more and more hopeless, hard and tiring. It is better to plant, or to fence the land to raise cattle... But now it is difficult to even plant. Fortunately, the government has allocated a large amount of funds for agriculture. Subsidies can make up for part of the losses, otherwise there may really be a revolution...
After leaving the bar, Chen Mo talked about the ranch.
The Snow Mountain Ranch is neither big nor small. But it can only raise 300 cows...
Canlby alone cannot take care of it.
Chen Mo came to the United States with the idea of a leisurely life. He would definitely not work hard on the ranch. At least two workers are needed. Two workers can take care of the ranch, but it is best to recruit three workers... …
Three workers, Canlby's proposal, workers with a semi-monthly salary of 1,000 US dollars. Canlby recommended his wife and an unemployed cowboy at home, and Canlby went to talk about these things...
Canlby's house is a wooden house with three bedrooms in a row. The bedroom doors all face the yard. The kitchen and living room are together, and the one on the far right...
The night in Montana was very cold. After drinking some wine, Chen Mo fell asleep quickly and woke up the next morning...
The sky is bright and the earth is dark, as if the light has not yet reached the earth.
Today's job is to recruit employees.
Canlby's wife Mary is a fat woman who looks fierce, and the other cowboy is in his forties and has extensive experience in pastoral work.
Including Canlby, Chen Mo has to pay a salary of 7,100 US dollars a month, which seems unreasonable no matter how he calculates it. The profits of the ranch are really not high, so Chen Mo simply has a ginseng forest...
Recruiting two workers is not enough, and three is too many.
Canlby's wife Mary and cowboy Athol were responsible for repairing the cattle pens and cleaning the cattle sheds.
Chen Mo took the key to the machinery warehouse and checked the machines with Canlby to see what else needed to be added. There was only a 265-horsepower tractor and a 120-horsepower tractor in the warehouse, and the plows for plowing were broken.
Need to buy new ones.
Forage harvesters, bundlers, forklifts...all the forage transport trucks needed for cattle pens need to be purchased.
Canlby made a purchase list, ranging from harvesters to commonly used accessories. The list was two long pages long: "By the way, we also need a tractor to transport cattle and sheep."
"How about the F150?" Chen Ou looked at his car.
"It can, but it's not a professional tractor after all. It can pull up to three or four cows at a time. Any more, and I'm afraid it won't work. The F450 has enough traction, and with an external trailer installed, it can load more than a dozen cows at a time." Canlby
He said bravely.
Xueshan Ranch used to have an F450, and all other machinery and equipment were complete... but now it needs to purchase complete equipment, which costs a lot of money. I estimate it to be at least 300,000.
When it came to purchasing agricultural machinery and equipment, Canlby only knew what he needed, but he didn't know where to buy it cheaply.