Linkwood's work attitude is very upright, but he is a little impatient.
Sun Dahai did not blame him, but waited with everyone for several cars that came to pick them up.
He did not go back to the manor directly with everyone, but asked Linkwood to drive him around the ranch to take a general look at the current situation of the ranch and listen to his detailed introduction.
When Sun Dahai appointed him as the owner of the Garrison Ranch, he told him that the ranch could break even within three to five years.
In fact, the pasture alone has achieved a balance of payments last year. Especially after the cattle from the pasture are slaughtered and divided, almost all of them are sold to Xiangjiang.
The No. 9 hotpot restaurant in Xiangjiang, Jinghao Jinghao, and Sheng Zhiwen's California Bar are big consumers of these beefs.
In addition to domestic branches that cannot import American beef due to policy restrictions and religious beliefs in the Middle East, these beef are not only used by the Xiangjiang branch, but will also be transferred to branches in other countries and regions.
The best parts of the cow and high-grade steaks are reserved by Taotie House and Caoji Private Restaurant.
Especially Caoji Private Restaurant, A-Dai makes full use of the characteristics of Chinese food that can cook everything. It uses beef tendon, beef head meat, beef offal and beef tendon as the main ingredients, and it comes with four flavors: original (simmered), braised, spicy and spicy.
Developed the "Adai Yixiang" series of cooked food.
This cooked food series was first called "Cao Ji Delicatessen" by Ah-Dai, but was later renamed "A-Dai Yixiang" by Chef Cao. Chef Cao would not take advantage of his own apprentice, although Chef Cao also produced it during the trial production
A lot of effort.
Now, this business is in charge of Aunt Liu, Ah-Dai's mother. She rented an operation room near Bafu Garden and hired four or five people to make and process hundreds of kilograms of cooked food every day, and also sorted and packaged the cooked food.
These cooked foods are currently only available at No. 9 Hot Pot Restaurant and its partner stores (Sui Jing Hao, Cao Ji Private Restaurant, Taotie House, Film Slow Shake Bar and California Bar). They are not vacuum packed, so the shelf life is only five days.
But as the reputation of "A-Dai's fragrance" spread, this small business became extremely popular, with supply exceeding demand.
Sun Dahai also tasted these cooked foods during his trip to Xiangjiang and liked them very much.
He suggested that Ah-Dai and Aunt Lin build a food processing factory to produce vacuum-packaged cooked food with a longer shelf life to expand production and sales.
Unexpectedly, those two people felt that they did not know management and could not do business well, so they did not want to do it. Then Sun Dahai had nothing to say. Everyone has his own ambitions.
The pasture is now in the process of completely replacing cattle breeds and uniformly raising Angus cattle. This is a long-term work. Due to this, the current number of beef cattle produced on the pasture is not high.
As time goes by, more and more beef cattle will be slaughtered in the future. I'm afraid it won't be long before Ah-Dai's side can't handle it.
After Garrison Ranch was acquired and integrated by Sun Dahai, all the small number of goats originally raised have been disposed of and replaced with Dorper sheep with better meat quality.
Dorper sheep is a famous meat sheep breed in the world, especially good at producing fattened lamb. The carcass of Dorper sheep before slaughter is tender and juicy, with bright color and high lean meat rate. It is known as "Diamond Level" internationally.
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The Dorper sheep is the national treasure of South Africa, and the natural environment in the Rocky Mountain foothills is not very suitable for the production of Dorper sheep.
Therefore, crossing Dorper sheep with local sheep breeds to improve adaptability to the environment while maintaining meat quality will be one of the important research tasks of Garrison Ranch in the past few years.
Since there are not many Dorper sheep currently available for breeding, this project is currently only an activity carried out by the ranch in conjunction with tourism. It is mainly used for tourists to eat and is not sold to the outside world.
On the western hillside of the ranch, a large open space has been circled as a deer farm for free-range red deer and white-tailed deer. There are currently hundreds of deer in the ranch, and these deer will become the main prey in the hunting area of the ranch.
In addition to these previous breeding projects, Garrison Ranch has also opened up many new breeding species, such as pigs, chickens (for meat and eggs), dairy cows, turkeys, etc. In addition, it has also established several fruit and vegetable farms.
There are also three sets of greenhouses and a nursery in the picking garden.
The current Garrison Ranch has moved away from the previous cattle and sheep-based breeding model of Montana ranches, and has taken a solid step towards developing tourism agriculture and achieving self-sufficiency in agricultural and animal husbandry products.
Ent Airport is located in the northeast corner of the ranch. Sun Dahai and the others listened to Linkwood's introduction and took a car through the north and west of the ranch. They made a half circle and arrived at the south of the ranch.
The combined area of Garrison Ranch is nearly 40,000 acres, which is equivalent to 160 square kilometers, roughly equal to the area of all the land within the third ring road of the capital.
The terrain of Garrison Ranch is high in the west and low in the east. Mount Martier is located in the west of the ranch, which is part of the Rocky Mountains. This part of the mountainous area and slopes accounts for about one-fifth of the entire ranch area.
The rest of the pasture is basically grassland. The Reese River flows out from the Martier Mountains, traverses the entire pasture, and forms Reese Lake in the east center of the pasture.
The natural environment of Garrison Ranch is quite good, and it has its own water source, so the price of land is much higher than that of surrounding ranches.
Sun Dahai re-registered the Garrison Ranch after merging it into four pieces.
At this time, the Garrison Ranch had been restored to its original appearance, with a total area of 35,000 acres. This also made Sun Dahai the second largest landowner in Celias Town.
Shortly after the Garrison Ranch was restored to its original appearance, it encountered a drought that had not happened in a century in the northwestern United States.
This drought lasted for nearly a year. Not only did crops fail, grass production decreased and livestock lost weight, but even the Yellowstone National Park not far away was completely burned by fires.
Garrison Ranch has its own water source and water rights, and the merged ranch is undergoing business transformation, so it has not been greatly affected. However, the surrounding farms and ranches will not be able to survive.
While Sun Dahai was busy taking advantage of the global stock market crash to cut leeks, and at the same time there were two fools who insisted on betting against him and giving him money, Linkwood also completed two acquisitions, which will be adjacent to the north and east of the ranch.
Three small ranches were included in the project.
These three ranches could no longer operate on their own, so the owners took the initiative to find Linkwood and asked him to buy them.
Therefore, Garrison Ranch not only expanded the area of its own ranch, but also gained a good reputation. It can be said that it killed two birds with one stone.
The area of these three ranches is not large, with a total area of only more than 4,000 acres.
However, in this way, the actual area of Garrison Ranch reached 40,000 acres, which made Sun Dahai become the largest landowner in Celias Town, and also made Garrison Ranch the largest landowner in the entire Billings City.