Na Wei returned to China a week ago. After this semester, she completed her studies in Xiangjiang and returned to her life of dressing up.
Fang Ying will not graduate from college until next summer, but she is not in Xiangjiang now. She was deceived by Chen Feng into going to the United States in the name of assisting in work, and continued the trip they did not take last year.
Brothers Li Fei and Li Liang went back to the capital to spend the summer vacation as soon as they had a holiday, so it was okay not to mention it. However, my aunt Zheng Peipei did not stay in Xiangjiang during the holiday, which was really beyond Sun Dahai's expectation.
Zheng Peipei went to Europe with Ouyang Meimei. They wanted to inspect several famous hotels and resorts in Europe.
Fortunately, the social environment in Europe is pretty good, otherwise it would not be reassuring if they were just two young girls doing inspection work together.
Tonight's reception banquet, except for Chef Cao's family, all the others are senior executives of Sun Dahai's company. Nowadays, several catering companies related to Sun Dahai in Xiangjiang require beef and mutton produced by Garrison Ranch. Due to the agricultural products,
Due to policy restrictions, mainland China is currently unable to import.
Therefore, today's main course is steak. This is also the first time that Garrison Ranch has eaten beef produced by Sun Dahai after it was acquired by Sun Dahai. He still feels a sense of accomplishment.
Mark, the project director of Jiahua Investment Company, was also present. He had just returned to Xiangjiang from Garrison Ranch and was about to report the development there to Sun Dahai.
Mark said that Garrison Ranch is in the process of changing cattle breeds, which is expected to take about five years. Originally, the four ranches worked independently and had different business strategies, so the selection of cattle breeds was complicated.
Now that the ranches have been merged and managed under unified management, Mark decided to replace all the cattle on the ranch with purebred Angus cattle based on Sun Dahai's future plan for the ranch.
Although breeding purebred Angus cattle is much more difficult and costly than the current mainstream Angus crossbreeds, it is in line with the needs of building high-end tourist and leisure ranches.
Sun Dahai is quite satisfied with the decision made by Mark. He acquired Garrison Ranch through Jiahua Investment Company not to produce large quantities of high-quality and low-price agricultural and animal husbandry products. That is the business philosophy of food being the first.
The industries under Jiahua Investment Company pursue a niche and high-end development model. At the same cost, Jiahua will naturally improve the quality of its products rather than its output.
The breeds of sheep in the pasture do not need to be changed, because only the No. 4 ranch at that time raised some purebred Boer goats. They themselves followed a high-end path, and the slaughtered mutton was only sold to two companies specializing in high-end ingredients.
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In addition, after discussing with Linkwood, Mark also opened a ten-acre vegetable garden in the pasture. The vegetables grown are not sold to the outside world, but are only used to satisfy the visitors and workers of the ranch.
Because the ranch is located in Montana in the northwest of the United States, which is very close to the Maple Leaf Country, the climate conditions are similar to Fengtian, which is relatively cold and has a short production period. Therefore, all vegetable gardens use glass greenhouses to grow vegetables to ensure the yield and variety of vegetables.
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In order to enrich the species on the ranch and provide more tourist experiences for tourists in the future, Linkwood, at Mark's suggestion, also added an elk farm, a turkey farm, a Snake River black pig farm, and a Brahma Chicken farm to the ranch.
The farm was planted with a large number of maple trees and cranberries, which increased the pasture's products a lot.
To say that Mark really dares to do this, after understanding Sun Dahai's ideas, the projects he designed all have the same characteristics: large investment, long cycle, and high quality.
The most normal ones here are turkey farms. Although Chinese people are not very interested in turkeys, turkeys are very popular in Europe and the United States. Even if it is not Thanksgiving and Christmas, the sales volume on weekdays is still very large.
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There were originally more than a dozen wild elk in Garrison Ranch, and they lived in the woods beside Reese Lake.
This time the ranch has officially started raising elk, and dozens of them have been introduced once again. However, the ranch’s plan is to raise elk free-range and allow the elk population to expand naturally, which will take a long time.
Also in need of free-range breeding are Snake River black pigs. This kind of pig has 100% Berkshire pig blood. Its meat is sweet and not fatty at all. Its quality is unparalleled in the world.
It’s just that Snake River Black Pigs daily feed on natural grains such as barley and wheat, and they also need to maintain a certain amount of exercise. In order to ensure meat quality, the pasture needs to adopt all-natural breeding methods, and Snake River Black Pigs take up to a year to be released.
As mentioned above, the cost of breeding is quite high.
Brahma chicken, also called Brahman chicken, is the largest chicken in the world. Although the name of this chicken seems to be related to India, in fact, it was the Americans in the mid-eighteenth century who combined the nine-pound chicken from Shanghai, China, with the chicken from Bangladesh.
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The Brahma Chicken can reach one meter and two meters in height as an adult, the rooster can grow to sixteen kilograms, and the hen can also grow to twelve kilograms. Compared with the normal chicken weighing three to four kilograms, the Brahma Chicken can be regarded as the giant among chickens.
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Brahma chicken is a chicken breed that can be used for both meat and eggs. The nutritional value of meat and eggs is quite high. However, it is similar to the Snake River black pig. It has a long growth cycle and cannot be fattened quickly using drugs and feed. Therefore, the breeding of Brahma chicken
The cost is quite high and is not suitable for the large-scale mechanized breeding that American chicken farms are used to.
However, Mark did not care about the so-called shortcomings of Brahma Chicken, and instead became the most suitable target for pasture breeding.
As for the maple trees and cranberries planted in the pasture, it will take a long time to get a return on investment. After the cranberries are planted, they need to grow for three to five years to bear fruit, and the maple trees planted in the pasture take even more time.
It takes many years to reap the benefits.
The type of maple tree selected for Garrison Ranch is sugar maple, also known as sugar maple. Sugar maple is a perennial deciduous tree that can reach a height of 45 meters and is more than a hundred years old.
The sugar maple tree has an elegant and majestic appearance, with a tall and straight trunk, a round or oval crown, and is dense and beautiful. In autumn, the leaves of the sugar maple tree will turn golden yellow, orange-red or orange-yellow, bright in color, and highly ornamental.
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Not only that, sugar maple trees also have extremely high economic value.
Sugar maple is a high-grade timber species. Its wood is hard, has good strength and wear resistance, and its texture is beautiful and shiny. It is an excellent material for making furniture, floors and musical instruments.
In addition, after the sugar maple tree has grown for fifteen years, the sap can be taken every year to make syrup, which is often called "maple sugar". It is as sweet as honey and has extremely high nutritional value.
Each normal-growing sugar maple tree can extract sap for more than fifty years. The maple sugar produced is expensive, and in the end you can get a portion of high-quality wood. Therefore, planting a large number of sugar maple trees in the pasture is really a waste.
