Lower Valley Ranch is retained, and the land it owns includes the Delai Valley and river valleys, small creek valleys and rolling hills below the reservoir, the Moro Valley, Santana Valley, and Flower Creek Canyon, with a total area of 14,756 acres.
The alfalfa planting area includes the Tarai Valley, which covers an area of 2,470 acres, and the alfalfa planting area is about 2,250 acres.
The Moro Valley is a breeding ground, but each breeding area has an alfalfa planting area, with a planting area of about 2,300 acres.
Santana Valley, the valley area is 4,500 acres, there are feedlots, and there is also a dedicated alfalfa planting area, about 3,600 acres.
The land in Huaxi Canyon is basically covered by alfalfa, with about 920 acres of alfalfa.
All alfalfa, 9,000 acres planted.
Alfalfa can be harvested every two to three months. The alfalfa in Huaxi Canyon and Santana Valley is highly productive, with an annual output of more than 25 tons of fresh grass per acre. In some areas, the annual output can reach about 35 tons.
The land in the Terai Valley is relatively dry, and irrigation is troublesome. According to statistics last year, the average annual output per acre was about 16 tons of fresh grass.
The yield of alfalfa is not very easy to calculate. Due to differences in water sources, soil fertility, etc., the yield can vary by one to two times. Space alfalfa has a greater demand for water. In harsh and good environments, the yield can even reach
More than three times the difference.
Back at the ranch, Moxie sent over alfalfa statistics.
The harvestable alfalfa area is 7,820 acres. In the past, valley pastures were harvested as much as needed, and there was no thought of selling alfalfa outside.
"Boss, Mr. Bai and Mr. John and Michael left early in the morning. Here is the key."
"Yeah." Chen Mo took the key.
Moxi took out another production list and handed it to Chen Mo: "We have to add 3 large harvesters with grass crushing function and 12 large trailers. The current feed factory still has a lot of excavable space..."
There were originally 2 large harvesters and several spare small harvesters in the pasture.
Two harvesters can harvest 100 acres of grass in one day.
Adding 3 more larger machines can harvest about 300 acres a day.
But it cannot be calculated this way. To maintain normal production, there must be backup machinery. Besides, it is not necessarily possible to complete the workload on time and on time every day...
Chen Mo now has money. He just sold his shares in Hehehe Animal Husbandry. Chen Mo has US$215.76 million in his personal account.
Valley Ranch, for a good sign, has $9.88 million in account funds.
In addition, there is also US$14.11 million in project funds in the third-party account, which is for the construction of sewage treatment plants, manure plants, power plants and other supporting facilities.
Treat sewage, mainly sewage from biogas digesters.
According to the standards of the United States Department of Agriculture, the sewage that passes through the biogas digester will definitely not meet the standards for agricultural irrigation and must be reprocessed...
Reprocessed sewage can be used whether it is discharged or used for farmland irrigation.
This is a large-scale circulation system, and only rich ranches dare to play like this. Other ranches can't even think about it, because they are so fancy and expensive.
"Buy. You are now the CEO of Valley Ranch. You can make your own decisions about small things." Chen Mo signed the document, pressed his hand, and asked Moxi to sit down and talk: "The 4811 ewes in our ranch,
These are about to start being bred. Half of the people at the institute have been allocated, how can Kangsi and the others still be busy?"
"Kansi said there is no problem." Moxi shook his head and said: "The main thing is about the alfalfa. I want to harvest the alfalfa as soon as possible and make it into hay and store it to avoid waste. There is nothing else.
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"Inspect the Huaxi Canyon more. Check out the breeding Wagyu cattle. It seems that they are about to give birth soon. There are also calves from the Bright cows. They were too busy before and there are still many that need to be delivered to the households... All this work was done by Bright before.
, since that guy knew that I wanted to divide the pasture, his thoughts have been..."
Moxi slapped his forehead: "I also forgot about this matter. But I think that the registration of cattle and sheep should be left to the regional farm director."
"Anyway, there is only so much work in the Valley Ranch now. Once you arrange everything, you should be very relaxed." Chen Mo said with a smile.
Valley pasture work, alfalfa, breeding, sheep and cattle, logistics.
The work of alfalfa harvesting, fertilizing, and caring for fruit trees in the Terai Valley and small valleys is under the Ministry of Agriculture, and the entire department has 26 people.
Kang Si is still responsible for the breeding work, mating, delivery, epidemic prevention, etc. But they are no longer needed for breeding work. There are 21 people in the entire department.
There are two farm directors for cattle and sheep. Huaxi Canyon is in charge of Hank, the director of the cattle farm. The director of the sheep farm has not yet been officially determined. For the time being, a person named 'Brock' is in charge. The main job is to be responsible for raising.
They also raise fat cattle, fat sheep, and cattle and sheep in their reproductive period.
There are 30 people in the cattle farm and 40 people in the sheep farm.
Logistics, power station, pumping station, biogas digester management, etc., a total of 15 people.
Including the management department, Valley Ranch currently has 141 employees.
For now, the job at Valley Ranch is very easy, and for a long time...at least this year, and maybe next year, there will be no need to recruit any more people.
In the past, the busiest tasks in the Valley Ranch were milking, producing fresh milk, and selling. Now all these jobs have been packaged and thrown away...Now the Valley Ranch is only engaged in production work.
After the milking factory of Valley Animal Husbandry is built and the milk room of Valley Ranch is vacated, Valley Ranch will still be engaged in the fresh milk business, but it will only be milking. The fresh milk produced can be sold directly to Nestlé, and it will not
Engage in market-oriented sales. At least not in the short term...
Chen Mo holds 30% of the shares of the Nestlé Saint-Béni factory. This share will not change in the next three years, even if Nestlé makes additional investment. Or the factory will accept the shareholder Hehehe Dairy, Chen Mo’s shares
, will not change... This was written in the previous contract. Chen Mo's obligation is only to provide a large amount of high-quality goat's milk source to Nestlé's St. Beni factory... And this contract, Chen Mo also gave it to Hehe Mu
Industry.
Moxi scratched his head and looked at Chen Mo: "Well... do you need to charge transportation fees from River Valley Animal Husbandry for the alfalfa business? I met Bright this morning and talked to him about transportation fees... He almost didn't.
If you fall out with me, I think you should go over and talk to him."
Chen Mo had a dark look on his face: "Is the transportation fee expensive?"
"The longest one-way transportation from the Santana Valley is 16 kilometers. With a large trailer, a round trip costs more than twenty dollars in gas. If the power is used at full power for a day, the freight cost is about
About two thousand dollars." Moxi touched his chin and said with a cautious expression.
Chen Mo was a little helpless: "Let's not be too shady. We will pay for the freight ourselves. We must leave room for Hehehe Animal Husbandry to make a profit. Otherwise..."
"A ton of grass costs US$50. It is processed into feed and sold. According to the purchase price of fresh milk from Nestlé's Saint-Béni factory, there is a very high profit..."
"The higher the profit, the higher the profit will be. Only by taking a long-term approach can you catch big fish, and fattened cattle are valuable..." Chen Mo said, and he laughed a little awkwardly: "You...have nothing to do now?"
"No. Today's work has been... Oh, I remembered, I have to go to Huaxi Canyon, so I'm busy with work now."
This man is really free now.
Chen Mo stopped him: "Wait."
"What?" Moxi chuckled.
"You still live with Brett?"
"Yeah. It won't be long before Brett will move out..."
Chen Mo rubbed his chin stubble: "If I'm not at the ranch, you have to help take care of my pets. In the past, when I wasn't at the ranch, Brett helped take care of them. It's not good to ask him for help now."
"No problem." Moxi said and wanted to leave.
"Go back to Brett and get the set of spare keys..."