Agricultural giant since 1983

People listened to what Zhang Xiu said, and now the owners of the oil mills along the coast are most concerned about the soybean market. They felt that Zhang Xiu’s words were indeed reasonable, so they arranged for trusted people to go to the United States to go to the main soybean producing areas in the Midwest to see whether the soybean harvest in the United States this year was bumper or poorer. Only when they had a clear result could they proceed to the next step.

Lao Xuebiao is the brother-in-law of the oil factory owner. After graduating from university, he didn’t work hard, so he knew how to play legends in Internet cafes, and even set up a guild to have fun. However, this kid does have some skills. He can also earn money by reselling equipment in the game. He also occasionally has unique insights when chatting with his brother-in-law.

So his sister was worried about his future, but his brother-in-law admired him very much, thinking that this kid was smart and discerning, and he was just a little more playful at the moment, and he would definitely be promising in the future; now, if he wanted to arrange a visit to the United States, he must know English and have a brain, so the brother-in-law immediately thought of Lao Xuebiao.

Sneaking him out of the Internet cafe, I found a place to order food and drink, and while drinking, I talked about the problems I encountered now. Lao Xuebiao immediately became interested. I have never been to the United States to play. My brother-in-law paid me to play. I must be happy, so I immediately agreed.

After dinner, I hurried back to the Internet cafe, handed over my account to the trustworthy person to play, and then greeted the people in the guild, and hurried to prepare for the formalities for going abroad.

After the other procedures are ready, you have to go to the consulate for an interview. Make an appointment in advance. When the appointment is made, Lao Xuebiao wears fancy clothes and a gold chain as thick as a thumb around his neck.

The visa officer asked, "Are you going to the United States?"

"Las Vegas!"

"doing what?"

"Playing cards!"

"Crack!" The visa officer stamped it without saying a word. This kind of person who sends money to American is definitely one of their most welcome objects, and there is no reason to refuse the visa.

"Cut, how difficult did I think it was? That's the end?" Lao Xuebiao smiled disdainfully after he came out, and immediately picked up the phone to announce the good news to his brother-in-law.

Arrived in San Francisco after a long flight by plane, then rented a car, first went south to Las Vegas to play poker for two days, he was able to control his emotions, no matter whether he won or lost, he left as soon as the two days were up, drove east through Utah and Colorado, and arrived at his first destination, Kansas.

Kansas is the most important agricultural state in the United States. It has the reputation of the breakfast state in the United States. There are 86000 farms and pastures in the state, and the farm area accounts for 80% of the total area of ​​the state. Along the highway, you can see the prairie surging like waves, sunflowers and wheat fields.

"Hey, that's what people call farming!" Looking around, the hundreds of hectares of flat land around are all planted with soybeans, but there are not many buildings and people in sight, which is completely different from the domestic countryside; get out of the car and walk into the field to look around. The soybeans are growing vigorously and the pods are full, exactly the same as the picture shown by Zhang Xiu.

Lao Xuebiao also took a few photos, then put away his camera and continued on his way. After driving for more than ten kilometers, there were similar scenes on the side of the road. As far as he could see, there were signs of a bumper harvest in the soybean fields, and there was no sign of a reduction in production. After walking for a while, he saw a small town.

Although he is addicted to the Internet, he is very good at dealing with people, otherwise he would not be able to be the president of the guild, so he found a hotel with a bar on the first floor and guest rooms on the second floor, and started to use his social talent, chatting directly with the boss's daughter.

In this small town in the central agricultural state, daily life is actually quite boring. When a strange guest came suddenly, everyone was very curious. Lao Xuebiao invited everyone in the bar to drink a glass of beer, and he immediately became the most popular guest in the town.

After a round of drinking, Lao Xuebiao proposed to toast this year's harvest, and then congratulated them, "I read in the news that the soybean production in the United States will decrease this year, but your harvest does not seem to be affected. If this is the case, you must be able to sell at a good price, right?"

"Haha, young man, don't be fooled by those politicians!" The owner of the bar smiled. He is also the largest farmer in this small town, with thousands of hectares of soybean fields under his name. "This is just a strategy for them to raise the price of soybeans! And we will definitely lose money if the soybeans are not harvested, and we will not make excess profits if the soybeans are harvested, because when we buy soybean seeds and chemical fertilizers, we have already signed purchase contracts with those big companies. No matter what the market price is at that time, we can only sell them at the price agreed in the contract! If it is sold to other people, those big companies will send a lawyer's letter immediately, and the vulture lawyers they raise will definitely make us bankrupt, so although this year's harvest is better than in the past, it will not make much money!"

"Yeah, the seed companies, fertilizer companies, pesticide companies, agricultural machinery companies, and those damn financial companies took all the profits! We can only work hard to earn some hard money!" So the bar started the daily talk about big companies again.

"However, even if the soybean harvest in Kansas is bumper, it doesn't mean that the soybeans in other places will be fine, right? If the weather in other states is bad, then the total soybean production will still decrease?" Lao Xuebiao deliberately retorted.

"Listen, boy, we are not guys who don't know everything!" This made the boss a little unhappy. "We have our own judgment. First of all, the main soybean producing areas in the United States are mainly the Midwestern soybean producing areas from North Dakota to Mississippi. There are abundant water sources from the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River here, and most of them are temperate and subtropical. The precipitation is moderate, and the water and heat conditions are very suitable for growing soybeans! The climate conditions of these states are very similar. If other states encounter abnormal weather, we will also be affected. If we have a good harvest, chances are other states will have a good harvest too!"

"And our special Soybean Association and soybean information exchange website!" The bar owner patted Lao Xuebiao on the shoulder, turned on his computer to log in to the website, and then gave him the position, "Look, there are all kinds of information on it, including the technology and operation of all links of international and domestic soybean production, supply and marketing. Naturally, abnormal weather warning messages are also indispensable. You can check carefully to see if there are any abnormalities mentioned by those politicians!"

Fuck, why would I drive around so hard if I knew there was such a website?Send this website address to my brother-in-law, and then I will continue to stay in Las Vegas to play cards and ride ocean horses, isn't it good for him?Seeing the rich news resources on the website, Lao Xuebiao couldn't help complaining in his heart.

Of course, he was just complaining, and when he returned to his room after drinking, he immediately called his brother-in-law to report, "Brother-in-law, I have been in Kansas for a few days, and the hundreds of kilometers of soybean fields on both sides of the road are full of bumper harvests. I didn't see anything unusual. I talked to the local farmers in the evening. They all said that this year's soybean harvest in the United States will definitely be bumper! The statement made by the US Department of Agriculture is nothing but a lie!"

"Brother-in-law, please remember a website. This is the website of the American Soybean Association. There are all kinds of news on it. You can find someone who can speak English to help you find out this year's harvest. It has the latest forecast, saying that the total soybean production in the United States this year is expected to exceed 29.5 billion bushels, which is higher than the record of 2001 billion bushels set in 28.91. It is completely different from the official results!"

This website is used to provide assistance to practitioners in the soybean industry across the country, so the information must be accurate and not fool people like the official.

"Fuck! Did Mr. Zhang say it was right? It's a good thing I asked you to come and verify, otherwise I would have to grab high-priced soybeans like other bosses!" My brother-in-law wiped the cold sweat off his forehead after hearing this. Now the price of imported soybeans in the United States is almost 4000 yuan, which is more than doubled than in the past.

"Brother-in-law, in my opinion, you might as well sell the oil mill as soon as you can get a good price! Otherwise, you will have to continue to pay high prices for soybeans, and when the price of soybeans drops in the future, you will lose money!" Lao Xuebiao went further than he thought. Although the US soybean harvest is sure to be bumper this year, if other oil mills rush to buy soybeans, you still can't buy cheap soybeans.

"And I always feel that there is something wrong here. Why is the United States lying to people? There must be articles in it. Maybe the Americans are planning to attack our soybean industry as Teacher Zhang said! We have a small family business and cannot withstand such a big storm. Get out early and feel at ease, so that you don't have to worry about it!"

"Let me think again, think again!" The brother-in-law was a little bit hesitant to make up his mind. First, he had made a lot of money by opening an oil mill for several years, and he was a bit reluctant to do this easy-to-money business. Second, what would he do if he bought the oil mill?I haven't seen any other good deals for a while, so I can't start to retire now, can I?

"Well, think about it slowly! I'll go to Nebraska tomorrow to see." Although he already knew that the United States has a high probability of harvesting soybeans this year, Lao Xuebiao felt that it would be more reliable to see for himself.

He drove all the way north to Nebraska, North and South Dakotas, then along the southern shores of the Five Great Lakes through Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and then continued south to the Kentucky axis, Tennessee, Mississippi, and Louisiana, turning around the main soybean producing areas of the Midwest of the United States.

The situation is exactly the same as what the owner of the small town bar in Kansas said. The soybean harvest in most of the main production areas in the Midwest is a bumper scene. Even if the soybean growth in a few places is not very good occasionally, it is due to the abnormal weather in a small area. This area has almost no impact on the total output.

Lao Xuebiao was still worried about this, so he went to the east coast to check the situation in North and South Carolina, Virginia, and Georgia, which are the main soybean producing areas. The climate here is quite different from that in the Midwest, but the growth of soybeans is just as good.

After returning to China, Lao Xuebiao showed his brother-in-law the photos he took along the way. Faced with solid evidence, his brother-in-law finally believed, "It seems that this old beauty is really holding back the water! Then I really have to sell the oil mill. The big dealers will end up, and we retail investors can't handle it!"

Lao Xuebiao needs to go to the United States for field investigations to get the real situation of American soybeans. Li Lei, COFCO and Sinograin have a better way besides sending people to the United States. That is to ask the country to come forward and use remote sensing satellites to estimate the total production of American soybeans.

In the future, the Global Agricultural Remote Sensing Rapid Reporting System of the State Key Laboratory of Remote Sensing Science, Institute of Aerospace Information Innovation, Chinese Academy of Sciences will be able to use satellite vegetation status factors, phenological information, meteorology, soil, irrigation, drought, geographical location and crop layers and other information, and then use its own soybean production estimation model to more accurately estimate the annual soybean production fluctuations of major soybean producing countries such as the United States, Brazil, and Argentina.

Although the current level of technology is not so high, and there are not so many remote sensing satellites in the sky, it is still possible to draw a rough conclusion!
After listening to their reports, relevant leaders felt that this problem was very serious, so they arranged for the Chinese Academy of Sciences to cooperate with them, and used satellites to understand the growth of soybeans in the United States this year. After comparing this year's data with the past, they found that the enhanced vegetation index of American soybeans during the pod setting period was very good.

"Hey, a few days ago we sent a special message, quoting the US Department of Agriculture's remarks, reminding everyone to pay attention to the tight supply of soybeans, and it turned out to be fake!" The leader also felt embarrassed. He clearly asked the satellite to see something that could be confirmed. Why did no one do it before? They became the accomplices of the United States and helped them spread fake news.

"We thought they were too good! Fortunately, there is still time! Since the Americans are going to do something, we have to be prepared! Help me arrange my schedule and go to Brazil in the near future! Xiao Li is right. We can't pin all our hopes on the Americans. Soybean imports must be diversified!" someone said decisively.

They were hesitant before, thinking that American soybeans are cheap and in large quantities, and it is more convenient to transport from the United States than from Brazil, so why go to Brazil to talk?But looking at it now, it is really impossible not to talk about it, and the Americans can't let us get stuck.

The bluff of the United States was exposed by Li Lei, and the fake news from the Ministry of Agriculture did not achieve the expected effect. However, the Americans soon took action again.