Eating barbecue and drinking wine, the afternoon passed by unconsciously.
Hill specially asked for a day off the next day, and everyone went to the ranch to play together.
The current Xueshan Pasture covers an area of 9,250 hectares, with a circumference of nearly 42 kilometers along the pasture.
The total cost was US$16.5 million.
The most fertile land is Lake Valley, about 7 kilometers, covering an area of 1,700 hectares, passing through Roger Fork Ranch, Lake Valley Ranch and Creek Ranch...
16.5 million U.S. dollars doesn’t seem too expensive, but it’s really not cheap at all. It’s more than 110 million U.S. dollars when converted into RMB.
For example, the Broken O Farm in Augusta has more than 50,000 hectares of land and a large area of fertile land in the river valley. It was previously listed for about US$130 million.
The infrastructure of the Snow Mountain Ranch is very poor, unimaginably poor. To build it completely, we need to continue to invest money...
Chen Mo likes land...probably the vast majority of Chinese people like land.
Owning a large area of land and standing on it will make you feel unprecedentedly satisfied and at ease.
Judithga is a poor pastoral town. The permanent population of the town does not exceed 100, and the total population is about 200.
News of Chen Mo's acquisition of three large ranches spread in the town, and other ranchers came to Canlby one after another, asking if Snow Mountain Ranch was still ready to expand...
If sufficient funds are available, the Snow Mountain Ranch should be able to expand to 30,000 hectares, including pastures and free grazing areas.
Money...is a problem.
In the space, Chen Mo looked at more than a ton of gold and the remaining dozen natural gold nuggets, which were worth tens of millions of dollars. The ancient river channels in the space plain contained gold... with a total value that may exceed 200 million US dollars.
Chen Mo is already a super rich man. It is easy to dispose of all this gold, but it is just troublesome.
The endless low grassland, as far as the eye can see, is Chen Mo's land. But these lands look particularly barren...
"Have you arrived at the Snow Mountain Ranch yet?" After passing the small town of Judithga and entering the large pastoral area, Hill saw the black-dotted cattle and asked.
"We've arrived. All the land you can see south of the snow-capped mountains is mine."
"It looks big." Hill said, looking around.
Two cars followed, all the way to the house in the small valley...
"No wonder your phone calls often don't get through. It's too remote." Arriving at the door of her home, Hill looked at the towering snow-capped mountains. Her home was in the Little Rocky Mountains. She was used to similar scenery and didn't think it was that beautiful.
It shocked Luo Chen and his wife: "It's so beautiful. The only pity is that there is no snow on the mountain."
You can see the bare rocks halfway up the snow-capped mountains very clearly.
"There was snow in April and May. It's gone now..." Chen Mo invited everyone into the living room. The sofa in the living room was occupied by two cats. Chen Mo went over and picked up one with one hand and put it back in their cat nest.
The living room is not spacious, but it is clean and tidy.
Chen Mo is a bit obsessive-compulsive, a Capricorn man who can't stand a messy environment.
"Sit." Chen Mo patted the sofa and invited.
"I've been looking forward to it for a long time without taking us out for a walk, riding horses or hunting." Luo Chen looked at Chen Mo's living environment and said.
"It's almost noon. Let's go out after eating." Chen Mo turned on the TV and pulled Bai Xiaoou to help in the kitchen: "How about mutton for lunch?"
"I don't care..."
At noon, I made a big pot of mutton stew with white radish, which is simple and easy to make.
I got some small peppers and dipped them in water...
Hill tried dipping a small chili pepper in water, and the tip of his nose was so spicy that he sweated: "It's poisonous. How can it be so spicy?"
The small peppers were brought back from the restaurant, fresh millet spicy...
Chen Mo smiled and fried a plate of spicy bean paste for Hill and Jennifer. This sauce is not spicy, but mainly fragrant.
The meat of the little lamb is tender and the taste is very different from that of the old lamb. When the white radish is stewed for mutton, the white radish is basically cooked, and the mutton will "melt in your mouth".
The lamb ribs are even more delicious, the bones and meat are separated, and they have the unique bone flavor of lamb bones.
"It's luxurious, this should be the top-quality little lamb." Bai Xiaoou picked up a piece of fat lamb with clear oil stains and looked at Chen Mo.
"First-class little sheep, the rating standard for high-end restaurants. Less than 1% of the little sheep in the United States can get this rating." There are not many little sheep raised in the United States. They are all wool-type sheep, and there are not many. Little sheep production
less……
"We will open a branch restaurant in the future, and we will have top-quality meat." Bai Xiaoou laughed and said: "This is the first time I have eaten top-quality lamb stewed radish."
High-end restaurants usually have lamb as main dishes. The most expensive one must be lamb chops, especially grilled lamb chops...
Most high-end restaurants pursue the original taste of food and are more picky about the selection of ingredients. The older the sheep, the stronger the smell... The price of lamb chops is more expensive, especially the lamb chops that meet first-class standards.
, they are not sold in supermarkets at all, they are specially supplied to restaurants, and they must be very high-end restaurants. The price of a first-class lamb chop is usually around a hundred dollars, or even more expensive, and you can't eat it if you want.
Hearing Bai Xiaoou's compliment, Chen Mo rolled his eyes. This is a scam...
Chen Mo had previously raised black-bone chickens and reed chickens, so Chen Mo listened to Bai Xiaoou and raised them in large quantities in the pasture, saying that he could sell the ginseng from the pasture.
The cost of black-bone chicken and reed chicken is there, so it is impossible to sell it too cheap...
In Tangxia Yipin, black-bone chicken and reed chicken sell well, and there are many dishes, including salt chicken, spicy chicken, braised, stewed, chicken risotto... The sales of ginseng chicken soup are also good, but Tangxia Yipin has sold a total of
Less than 2kg of ginseng is removed.
"Don't just talk, you have to show actual results. My pasture has been expanded... According to the supply contract signed with Ellison, he can only eat no more than 100 lambs per month."
"Don't worry, okay, I have a plan here..." Bai Xiaoou waved his hand and continued to dig at the food in the bowl.
The first-class standard little sheep are expensive because the market supply is small, and the main consumers are also the top restaurants in the United States. The contract was finalized with Ellison... The little sheep from Snow Mountain Ranch were first provided to Tang Xia Yipin and Ellison.
The company can sell the excess to the supermarket...the price cannot be lower than the contract purchase price.
When there are gains in doing business, there are bound to be losses.
Sold directly to supermarkets, Chen Mo does not have this channel now and can only sell to slaughterhouses. The price they offer will definitely not be higher than Ellison's purchase price... In this way, the breeding scale of the ranch is also limited (
Lamb only).
"How much does one pound of your mutton cost when you sell it?" Luo Chen was more interested in this and asked.
"Sold to high-end meat suppliers, one pound is 16.5 US dollars. One pound is 500 grams, and one pound is 453 grams." Chen Mo said.
"That's... more than 100 yuan per pound." Luo Chen stared, a little unbelievable: "Don't they all say that meat in the United States is cheap?"
This is very difficult to explain...
Bai Xiaoou said: "That's not how the accounts are calculated... The dollars earned in the United States are also dollars consumed. The exchange rate has to be used as an explanation... For example, if the annual income in the United States is 300,000 US dollars, it is converted into RMB 2.2 million, and you make money from the United States.
When you live in China, you will feel that prices in China are cheap. Don’t compare the products in the two places, I’m talking about the overall cost of living...These issues are very troublesome to explain, but after living in the United States for a while, you can almost understand them.”
"Different classes have different consumption concepts and habits. The annual income in the United States is 300,000, and the annual income in China is 2.2 million. The income of 2.2 million is not intended to be more noble, but we can't say who is better and who is not... at least a little bit
"In the United States, there are relatively few people with an annual income of 300,000 who can save money. Just like me..." Bai Xiaoou was pretending to be a coward, which was the most fatal.
After all, the United States is a developed country, and the cost of living is relatively low. This is true. However, it is completely unnecessary to make a head-on comparison between the exchange rates of the US dollar and the RMB.