Song Tan's Notes

Yang Zhengxin not only wants to drink barley tea, he also plans to harvest the wheat himself.

To be precise, he and Qiao Qiao used two small harvesters sent by their family to harvest wheat.

This year, the Song family planted a total of 5 acres of wheat, a high-yield variety. It is estimated that they can harvest to kilograms of wheat.

This number may sound like a lot, but if you use a harvester, even a small one, you can harvest two acres in an hour if used smoothly.

Qiao Qiao had never used such a high-end machine, so he nodded vigorously!

Yang Zhengxin also explained: "Our family was the first to make this kind of machine. At first, we made large harvesters, which were very efficient on the plains. Later, the company wanted to develop this small one. Many people said it was unnecessary, but my father insisted on researching it."

Having broken through the barriers of large-scale harvesting, it is not that difficult to make this kind of small one. The only difficulty lies in the low price, high quality, easy operation and complete functions.

According to Lao Yang, "In mountainous and hilly areas where this kind of machine is used, farmers who grow crops are not rich."

Farmers are not wealthy and transportation is not convenient, so you can't be careless about this. Otherwise, people buy a machine and it breaks down every few days due to misoperation, or it's too expensive, or the threshing is not clean and wasteful...

“Isn’t this a matter of bad reputation?”

Initially, they targeted more remote areas and fragmented fields that could not even be considered terraces, and launched a fool-operated self-propelled harvester.

This harvester can even go on small ridges.

You just need to add diesel to start it, and then people can hold the machine and walk forward in the rice and wheat fields. The harvested rice and wheat lie there neatly, and it is also very convenient to bale.

The advantage of this one is that it is cheap and very small, and you can buy a high-quality one for only about 18,000 yuan.

Later, when it matured, we launched an integrated machine that harvested, threshed and crushed the straw at the same time. This is the one that Lao Yang specially sent me.

Otherwise, we would hire someone to harvest the crops like we did last year, with one person working one acre a day and getting paid 300 yuan.

Yang Zhengxin said proudly: "When we first started participating in the agricultural machinery exhibition, some people said that our company was just farting. Some people also said that we had no new products at all, and we only knew how to make money and rehash old products..."

But in fact, as soon as this agricultural machinery was launched, people in hilly areas liked it very much - there are not many people farming now, and most of them are women, the elderly or children who stay at home alone.

They bought one for 10,000 or 20,000 yuan. The man went out to work, and the others harvested the fields at home. The only thing they had to do was drying the grains themselves...

One person is enough.

Yang Zhengxin said proudly: "My dad said that when it comes to working on agricultural machinery, don't listen to what those who use the internet say, you should go directly to the fields and work."

Song Tan gave a thumbs up: "Why don't everyone in their family like Xiao Yang? This child has been educated so well by his peasant family!"

So she agreed without hesitation: "Okay, you guys come to harvest the wheat. If we have time to harvest the rice in a few months, Xiao Yang, you can also bring your classmates and friends."

"As for this wheat, if it is ground into flour, it may not be easy to preserve. Since your family has a farm, I will directly dry it and ship it to you."

Yang Zhengxin became happy: "Great! My mother likes to eat noodles!"

However, Song Sancheng and Song Youde were not very happy about it - the children had never used a harvester, and he and his son had never used one in their entire lives!

If the new machine hadn't been given to me, I would never have thought that small harvesters could be made so beautifully. And the official name is not a harvester, but a self-propelled grain combine harvester and thresher.

Harvesting, threshing and spitting out the straw at the same time.

When sitting on it, besides keeping track of the direction, you only need to replace the food bag at the back when it is full.

Song Youde thought happily: If this is used during wheat harvesting, everyone in the village will have to take a look. Look at the red seat, black armrests, and sharp harvesting head... It's just like using a tiller in spring. You sit on it and just drive forward. The grass roots in the ground are all cut off and it digs deep. It's very useful!

Otherwise, how could the villagers have the time to tidy up their own fields this year? It’s all thanks to high technology.

Finally the whole family discussed it and chose a sunny day, and decided that each person would drive for half an hour - Song Tan intervened because Lu Chuan also wanted to try it.

With his Princess and the Pea physique, he wanted to help bundle the wheat, but who would dare? He would bleed all over if the wheat awns pricked him.

So we let him drive a harvester to experience it.

Lu Chuan touched his nose, feeling a little embarrassed, but it was really new. The machine wouldn't interfere with his work anyway, so he decided to give it a try.

Yang Zhengxin seriously previewed the event in the live broadcast room and specifically asked, "Qiao Qiao, are you selling this barley tea online?"

"Will you sell the flour you grind later?"

If it could be sold, he would have leaked the information during the live broadcast, otherwise it would be inappropriate if he said it and then didn't sell it in the end.

Qiao Qiao looked at Song Tan.

Song Tan thought for a moment and said, "When we were planting, Professor Song said this type of wheat could produce 1000 to 1200 kilograms per mu."

This is the data for the dried products. If the powder output is 70%, that would be about to kilograms.

"Sell."

She said straightforwardly: "I sell 1000 kilograms of flour and 500 kilograms of barley tea online. Each order is sold in 500g quantities."

The family has to set aside a portion of this staple food to give to relatives and friends, and another portion has to be supplied to Boss Chang - that's about 2000 kilograms.

Even so, the remaining ones are enough for their family to eat. After all, the staple food of the family is rice - a lot of various rice grains can be planted this year!

But we are not that rich, we can only say that we are very tight on spending. After all, the average glutton in the family needs to eat three times as much rice and noodles.

"As for the price..."

We have never sold staple food at home!

Song Tan thought for a moment and said, "150 for a pound of flour, and 69 for half a pound of barley tea."

This price is indeed expensive, and the price offered by Boss Chang is probably just this high.

Therefore, Song Tan added: "By the way, Xiao Yang, when you are live streaming, please explain to everyone that barley tea and flour have no effect. Just eat them for fun and don't waste your money."

After thinking for a while, he added, "Ask She Min, who does the copywriting, to put up a link and note it, and ask her to take more photos when cutting."

"Tell Yun Duo again that when you are ready to start the live broadcast, call Brother Xiao Zhang in advance."

Once the wheat is harvested, it means the weather is getting warmer and their farm work will begin one after another.

At this time, it is best not to have any backlog of work.

Yang Zhengxin understood Song Tan's meaning very well. He nodded and summarized it accurately: "Don't worry! We are a luxury brand and we don't make money from the poor!"

Song Tan: ...That's what I meant. Why is it so strange when you say it this way?

Are things that cost us a few hundred yuan considered luxury goods? It costs a few hundred yuan to order ice cream or a plate of maocai online! (End of this chapter)