Driving back to Montana, the car easily passed 100 miles on sparsely populated roads.
Chen Chen sat in the passenger seat, looking at Chen Mo with longing eyes, licking his smile: "Brother, after you go to California, will this car stay at the ranch?"
"Stay at the ranch." Chen Mo said with a smile: "When you get your driver's license, I will take Xiaoxiao to California and drive this car for you."
Chen Chen was silly and reached out to touch the leather interior of the car.
"Don't just have fun and travel here. Learn from Bright and ask questions if you don't understand. If you don't want to be a cashier for the rest of your life, you have to suffer a lot in the past two or three years... Zhang Xia,
You also have to supervise your husband. If he doesn’t obey, call me and I’ll come flying over and beat him up.”
"Well, I will definitely play a supervisory role." Zhang Xia smiled.
After returning to the ranch, Chen Chen and the others had to prepare to change their passports, not to mention getting a temporary green card, but at least a three-year visa.
Some states do not require a green card or a three-year visa to take a driver's license test, but not in Montana.
The Snow Mountain Ranch is now considered a big company in Montana. It is very simple for the ranch to prepare the materials and submit the application for a three-year visa. It only takes less than a week to complete the visa replacement, and then replace the driver's license.
Chen Chen and the others are all college students and can easily communicate with the locals, and the written examination subjects are not difficult for them.
In late March, tender green pastures grew on the prairie.
Bright bought two thousand calves from outside and put them on the prairie...
Chen Mo went into the space and got a lot of alfalfa seeds out of the space, and the seeds were sown from high altitude by airplane...
Cultivate the farmland, build circular irrigated fields, and purchase calves and lambs. The pasture originally had millions of dollars, but less than 300,000 was left. From then on, the Snow Mountain Pasture has basically stabilized, and there should be no major expenses.
April.
Chen Mo drove the excavator and pulled the gold mining equipment to Jinsha Creek. He washed the previously washed tailings again and got 19.75 kilograms of gold. He also got almost two Ferraris.
Chen Mo got up early in the morning, simply packed his luggage and made breakfast...
"Brother." The meal was not ready yet, and Chen Chen and his wife came over from next door.
"Oh, it's time to eat soon."
"Let me do it. This is what I should do."
"Just for the last meal, Chen Xiao and I are going to California today. You two are taking care of yourselves here. If you need anything, call me."
"You know, we are not children..."
Chen Mo gave up his seat with a smile, and his cell phone rang: "Hello."
"Here, what's the matter?"
A call from Bai Xiaoou.
"I asked you if you can do it, where are you?" Bai Xiaoou said in a venomous manner, with a very bad attitude.
"What?" Chen Mo was depressed.
"I called you all day yesterday, but I still can't get through. I've arrived in Great Falls and will come over by helicopter right away... Your ranch is waiting. I need to have a good talk with you."
Chen Mo smiled bitterly: "Okay, I'll wait for you, hurry up."
"Whose phone number?" Chen Chen asked.
"Bai Xiaoou should come here about the beef..."
After dinner, Chen Mo drove to the office and pulled out the ranch's operation plan for this year.
The sound of the helicopter in the sky was getting closer and closer. Chen Mo went out to watch the helicopter land. Bai Xiaoou came over with an unhappy look on his face: "I said, can you do it? Why has the price of beef increased again? From a local ranch in California.
Fatty cattle are only 45 US dollars per pound. The quotation you sent us is 6.5 US dollars, which makes people live."
"No way, the market just needs to be here. Someone paid 7 yuan." Chen Mo shrugged and said helplessly.
"Hi, Mr. Bai." Brett came over with a smile: "How's the business at the restaurant?"
"You've made a lot of money. The old Shufeng hot pot restaurant bought three cows a day when business was at its best, and now the average sales volume is about one cow." Bai Xiaoou pinched his forehead, looked at Chen Mo, and said seriously: "
Isn’t the beef here really cheap?”
Chen Mo shook his head: "There are still 241 fat cows that can be put on the market, and the weight does not exceed 800 kilograms. The next batch of fat cows is expected to be put on the market in July and August, or before winter."
Lao Shufeng Hot Pot Restaurant is doing very well and is packed almost every day, especially during the Chinese New Year period, when there are diners queuing up every night.
The hot pot restaurant specializes in prime-grade beef. This is the first one in the United States, and it's not too expensive. A plate of beef weighs about 190 grams and costs US$7 a portion.
Although it is an ordinary part of prime-grade beef, it is prime-grade certified by the Ministry of Agriculture after all. Diners who come to Lao Shufeng Hot Pot Restaurant will definitely eat this beef...
Top quality ingredients, delicious taste, you really get what you pay for.
Imagine that a pound of beef in other hot pot restaurants only costs three or four yuan. Tangxia Yipin Company has purchased beef from Snow Mountain Ranch twice in a row, the first time for $5.15 and the second time for $5.50. Now the price has increased again...
The ranch can raise prices, but the hotpot restaurant can't raise prices, and it can't just reduce the portion...
Bai Xiaoou scratched his head and looked at Chen Mo: "Will the price of your beef increase in the future?"
Chen Mo smiled and nodded: "Looking at the current trend, it's very possible."
The two peak periods for slaughtering fattened cattle are after winter and before winter. During these two periods, the price of fattened cattle is the cheapest.
"I'll go... I want all of these 241 fat cows. The whole cow, including the fillet and sirloin."
"Live cattle?"
"Um."
"You should know the rules of buying live cattle. You have to bear part of the risk yourself. In terms of price, the price can be appropriately cheaper..." Ellison has come to inquire about this batch of fat cattle several times, but Chen Mo has been reluctant to sell them to him.
Several other beef dealers wanted to sign purchase contracts with Snow Mountain Ranch, but they did not agree.
Entering the office, Ellison drew up a purchase contract, and Bai Xiaoou had to pay the full amount in one go...
"I don't need so many cows now. I'll start with fifty, and you can raise the rest in your pasture for me..."
"No problem. One cow, one day's food expenses, labor expenses, etc., is 3.5 US dollars." Bright gave a quotation: "It is guaranteed to be the standard of food during the fattening stage. If you really calculate it, our ranch is doing a loss-making business..."
The average live weight of adult Angus bulls is 700-900 kilograms. The average weight of more than 200 Angus cattle in the pasture is less than 800 kilograms, and they can be kept for a while.
"Okay, no problem." Bai Xiaoou looked at the general information of these cows and the selling price of a single cow. The price quoted here is US$5,700 per cow.
The price of meat per pound is expensive. But compared to the 30 cows purchased before the New Year, the price of one cow is actually cheaper.
The batch of Angus before New Year weighed more than 830 kilograms each.
Selling live cattle here on the ranch saves the cost of slaughtering, paid inspection costs, and transportation costs. In total, it makes less money than selling to Ellison.
Bai Xiaoou didn't even visit the cowshed. He signed the contract directly, filled out a check for more than 1.3 million and handed it to Chen Mo... This amount of money was just enough to buy a helicopter for the ranch.
Chen Mo flicked the check and handed it to Chen Chen: "Deposit it into the ranch account. Do you understand the process?"
Chen Chen's heart was beating hard. US$1.368 million was converted into more than 9 million yuan.
This is the first time Chen Chen has handled such a large amount of money: "I want Master to accompany me there."
Brett smiled and nodded: "No problem, I just happened to go to Lewistown to buy some things and come back."
After watching the two people leave, Chen Mo took Bai Xiaoou to the cowshed and looked at his cows: "These cows are pretty good, they all eat natural grains."
"Very good. You can see that their coat color and luster are obviously different from other cows. Raising a cow, your profit is not low, right?" Bai Xiaoou said.
"Prime class accounts for more than 70% of the fat cattle, how can the profit be low?" Chen Mo said with a smile: "You came here specially to sign this contract?"
"What else. If I don't come here in person, can these fat cattle be sold to me now?" Bai Xiaoou looked at the breeding farm: "I know you sold these cattle cheaply, so I owe you a favor. The business of the hot pot restaurant is very high.
Okay, but it’s also a lot of pressure…”
If Bai Xiaoou buys directly from a store, the cost will be high.
The annual bank loan interest payment is 1.65 million.
"Speaking of favors, I also have shares in the company." Chen Mo put his arm on Bai Xiaoou's shoulder and walked outside. Bai Xiaoou helped him sell gold and help him choose a location for his ranch. I can't explain favoritism clearly.
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As for business, after the business there is stable and the pressure is not so great, then sell him at a high price...