If a ranch wants to become bigger and stronger, human and financial resources are indispensable factors. Sun Dahai is so poor now that he only has money left. He doesn't even need a loan, he can just invest his own money directly.
But the problem of human resources cannot be solved in a short time. Domestic food companies can be regarded as farmers. Unfortunately, the management experience of China and the United States cannot be used interchangeably. Even if people are transferred from China, they have to learn from scratch.
If Sun Dahai does not delegate power to Dennis and the others, it is unrealistic to just rely on headhunting companies to recruit people. It is better to actively delegate power, which can not only solve the talent gap, but also win over people's hearts.
If there is no party within the party, there will be imperial thinking. If there is no faction within the party, there will be all sorts of strange things.
Sun Dahai is not afraid of his subordinates forming cliques. People have social attributes. No matter what the environment is, when there are more people, they will naturally divide into different groups.
What Sun Dahai needs to do is to improve the company's various systems and establish a complete supervision mechanism. Only in this way can we prevent mistakes and keep the company running on the right track.
Chen Feng, on behalf of the parent company of Garrison Ranch, also made some guarantees.
Then came the details of the ranch. These issues fell within the scope of Linkwood's management. Sun Dahai listened for a while and showed his support before leaving the meeting room.
When Joseph saw this, he also came out. He took Sun Dahai to the small living room and told him about the situation of the surrounding pastures.
The original Garrison Ranch was divided into four parcels, and two of the ranches are now for sale.
If we describe the location according to the quadrant diagram, the current Garrison Ranch is in the first quadrant, and the two ranches to be sold are in the third and fourth quadrant respectively.
The ranch, located in the fourth quadrant, covers an area of 8,000 acres and owns the other half of the Martier Mountains.
The terrain of this ranch is mainly mountains and hills, with almost no pasture, so this ranch is mainly used to raise goats and North American red deer.
The pasture in the third quadrant is a pasture in the traditional sense. It covers an area of 10,000 acres, more than half of which is high-quality pasture. The breeds raised here are beef cattle and horses.
The management of this ranch is pretty good, and at least it makes some profits every year. However, the current owner of the ranch wants to live in a big city, so he listed the ranch on the exchange a year ago.
At present, no one is interested in this ranch, and the listing price has dropped again and again, from the earliest US$15 million to the current US$11.5 million.
Joseph believes that ten million US dollars may be the bottom line of the ranch. If Sun Dahai wants to buy it, he estimates that he can get it at this price.
This price is only for the acquisition of fixed assets such as land, houses, cattle pens, stables, etc., and does not include the beef cattle and horses being raised on the ranch.
The ranch currently has 5,000 beef cattle and more than 200 horses. If Sun Dahai wanted to purchase the ranch, he would have to spend at least 10 million U.S. dollars for these animals.
The ranch that is full of mountains and hills is relatively cheap. The total cost is 12 million US dollars, which is basically about the same.
Although the ranch was not listed, Joseph knew the rancher and knew that he had wanted to sell the ranch for a long time. However, his ranch was a bit unconventional and it was estimated that there would not be many interested buyers, so it has not been listed.
Since Sun Dahai is now interested in acquiring, Joseph is also willing to come forward to broker the deal so that both the buyer and the seller can get what they need and achieve a win-win situation.
Both ranches were sure to be taken down. Sun Dahai had to look at Shu and began to think about the remaining ranch.
However, Joseph could not be of much help this time, because the owner of the ranch, like Kota Ono, almost never showed up and did not expect to make money from the output of the ranch.
This ranch is referred to as Ranch No. 2. It has good natural conditions and covers an area of 7,000 acres, all of which are pasture. The river that flows through Garrison Ranch runs through this ranch.
Kota Ono hired multiple employees to help him manage the ranch. The owner of Ranch No. 2 went even further. He only hired four or five people to grow forage in the ranch and then sold it to other ranches.
Not to mention, as a result, Ranch No. 2 actually has a small surplus every year on the basis of self-sufficiency. I wonder what Kota Ono, who has to lose money every year, will feel.
Ranch No. 2 was acquired by the current rancher ten years ago. At that time, Joseph was still working as his barrister in Washington. The rancher rarely came to the ranch, so Joseph had never interacted with the rancher.
When Sun Dahai heard what Joseph said, he had no choice but to ask Linkwood to send someone to Ranch No. 2 to ask, but he probably wouldn't pay attention.
The afternoon tea served by Fat Chef Villa was vanilla custard, china, hot chocolate and black tea.
China is a classic Spanish snack, similar to fried dough sticks, but not soft. China is also made from dough made of flour and fried, and is usually eaten dipped in hot chocolate.
Sun Dahai asked him to send some to the conference room, and he and Joseph went to the restaurant to eat with Andrew and the others who had just returned from the stables.
Andrew was very excited, his face was red and there was straw in his hair.
This poor kid was exposed to the ranch for the first time and was still very curious about everything about the ranch. His understanding of the ranch was far inferior to that of Jessica, who was one year younger than him.
Everyone had afternoon tea and chatted casually.
As we talked, we started talking about Gerald. After getting his private pilot license (PPL), he never had a plane to fly because he didn't want to fly Ent's propeller plane.
In fact, Gerald started relevant studies two years ago, but he took the path of Part 61 (Flying Club) instead of Part 141 (full-time study), so it was not until the beginning of this year that he passed all the exams.
Obtained PPL.
Of course, Sun Dahai didn't understand the difference between these. After asking about it, he found out that it is really easy to fly a plane in the United States. Of course, the prerequisite is that you must have money.
Joseph suddenly said something, which aroused Sun Dahai's interest.
He said that if Sun Dahai purchased both ranches, they would be connected with the Ent Airport.
Yes, it seems that there is no train in Celias Town. If the ranch develops tourism, in addition to driving from the highway, it would be very good if there is an airport to receive high-end customers.
Sun Dahai wanted to understand this and asked Ente.
"Mr. Ent, can your airport handle jet aircraft like the Lear-55?"
Ent shook his head and said: "Jets are definitely not suitable. My airport's runway level is 1B. The length and strength of the runway are not enough to support the take-off and landing of jet aircraft. It can also take off and land small propeller aircraft, or