silent farm

Chapter 111 Forage Grass and Macroalgae (Baoyi)

After leaving Silent Farm, Fernando and Ali did not continue to stay in Brazil, but flew directly from Manaus to Portugal by plane together.

Of course, Prince Ali has his own special plane. In the reception room of this luxurious private jet, Prince Ali is drinking coffee while Fernando is drinking red wine.Although Ali is a devout believer and does not drink alcohol, he is also a relatively open person and does not think that other people must follow the teachings of the holy religion in his mind like him.This is also the reason why he can make friends with many non-Christians.

The two sat in the small meeting room of the special plane. Fernando asked the stewardess in traditional Arabian attire to pour some red wine, and said while shaking, "How do you feel when you see Li this time?"

Ali smiled and said: "I think he will be a good friend. A person who is not very good at doing business is usually not a cunning person. And I also feel his sincerity to people. A sincere person, everyone You can be friends."

Fernando laughed and said, "There are many sincere people in the world."

Ali said seriously: "Friends also need to see if the magnetic field matches."

"Haha, I almost thought you were talking about marriage."

Ali smiled and raised his hand to beckon the stewardess to change the cold coffee.He took a sip and said, "I'm actually very interested in his pasture."

"What do you mean?" Fernando was a little puzzled.Ali is a man who treats his friends with sincerity as he said.What did he mean by that, wanting pasture from Silent Farm?It's not like his style of dealing with things whether it's overt or covert.

In fact, Ali didn't have too many ideas. He just wanted to start a business: "I heard you talking about the pasture business that day, and I asked someone to do some research."

"and then?"

"The results of the survey surprised me. The average feed cost for every pound of weight gain in the Brazilian cattle industry is about four reais. If what Li Sheng said is true. Calculated based on the price he sells forage, Silent Farm Calculating the cost of gaining a pound of cattle, the cost is only [-] reais. Moreover, the daily weight gain rate of the cattle on Silent Farm is three to five percent higher than that of cattle on other pastures.”

Fernando's movement of shaking his wine glass stopped suddenly.What does the data that Ali mentioned represent?
The cattle in Silent Farm only eat grass, and the meat is of excellent quality.If other farms also use this kind of forage, regardless of whether the meat quality will be the same as that of the cattle on the Silent Farm, as long as the weight gain rate can be similar to that of feeding compound feed, the cost of feed alone will make those cattle farms willing Spend shipping costs to buy hay.

Growth rates can also be increased if forage enhances beef quality.Maybe all cattle farms will be crazy about it.

And how many cattle are there in Brazil?It is said to be [-] million stocks.

That's an immeasurable market.

After a long time, he shook his glass again and said, "So, his pasture business has lost money."

Ali smiled and said, "Originally, I wanted to propose using the company we were planning to form to sell his pasture. But it seems that he has another purpose, and he doesn't plan to sell large quantities of pasture for the time being. It's not convenient for me to bring it up."

A gleam of light flashed in Fernando's eyes, and he smiled and said to him, "Do you still care about this business?"

"Oil will be exhausted one day. Even if it is exploited forever, oil will be replaced by other energy sources one day. Grass is a product that is always needed, and it is truly inexhaustible." Ali Smiling and shaking his head.He was indeed born spitting oil, but it doesn't mean he can only stare at oil.

Oil will be useless one day, perhaps not for long.And as long as people need to eat, grass will always be needed.A short-term business and a long-term business, he is more optimistic about the latter.

And if the pasture on Silent Farm was as good as he thought, the business would not necessarily benefit him less than what he got from oil.

Even if it only occupies 160% of the Brazilian market, it can sell 250 million tons of fresh grass a day.According to an optimistic estimate, the price of pasture grass will not conflict with the market price of [-] reais per ton.A day is a business of hundreds of millions of reais.Even if he could only earn [-]% of the profit from it, that would be an income of nearly tens of millions of dollars.

Even with some conservative estimates, there is always half of it.

Unfortunately for him, these can only be imagined now.

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Today, the sun is shining.Li Sheng was fiddling with several flower pots, filled with soil, and two small branches on one side.

Tia is also helping, she is loosening the soil in the flowerpot.

At this time, Li Sheng cut off most of the leaves from those branches, and cut them into a wedge shape at the end near the root.He is going to do an experiment.

These branches are the kind of shrubs that contain taxol, which are made from space.The seeds sown on the farm had sprouted, and he wanted to see if the shrub could reproduce vegetatively.

If he can, he will need to arrange some guards for this shrub in the future.If not, you don't have to worry about someone stealing and breaking the branches, as long as you prevent the seeds from leaking out.

But he was still curious about a phenomenon.Why do two different colored fruits grow on the same bush?One kind has seeds, although the paclitaxel content in the juice is not low, but it is much less than the other kind of fruit without seeds, only about one tenth.

Wouldn't it be great if all the fruits could only grow purple?Then he doesn't need to worry about spreading the seeds.

Of the two branches, one was soaked in the water of the space lake, and the other was not treated in any way.Inserted on four different media.

The two then moved the pots under the eaves.There will be some sun in the morning in this place, but not for very long.Just right.

Tia sat quietly on the opposite sofa reading a book.He was drinking tea when his phone rang.

It was Zhang Feng calling.If there is no problem, he seldom calls Li Sheng on his own initiative.

"Old Zhang, what's the matter?"

"Boss, the algae you planted before have covered those lakes. The sun is better these days, and the algae grows so fast that the boats we arranged have no time to harvest them. Do you want to buy more boats and come back? "

Those freshwater kelp were planted before the rainy season.Later, perhaps because of the weather, the growth of the algae was not as strong as what Li Sheng saw in the space.I thought it was not suitable for the bottom of the lake here.He never paid much attention to it.But I heard from Lao Zhang that he has sent people to harvest.But the output is not very high.

And that's been less than two weeks.What Lao Zhang said has completely changed.It is said that there are not enough boats to harvest.

He was a little puzzled, and asked, "Aren't there boats in other small lakes? They've all been dragged across."

"It's all been dragged over. It's still not enough. The workers said that the algae can emerge from the water after two days of cutting. And it's very dense, and the propeller is easy to get stuck."

"Grow so fast?" Li Sheng didn't expect it to be like that. "You think of a way first. I'll go right away."

He said standing up.

Tia also stood up: "You want to go out?"

These days, she no longer studies in front of the TV every day, because the teaching content broadcast on TV during the day is no longer suitable for her.She mainly reads books now, or watches more in-depth courses on TV at night.

Li Sheng nodded and said, "There is a small problem in the south. I'll go and have a look. You want to go too?" He didn't want her to always be holding a book like this, and he hoped that she could go out more.

Tia rolled her eyes and shook her head: "I'll stay at home and read."

Li Sheng had no choice but to let her go, but he still told him: "If you want to go out, tell the people outside." Since the increase in the security team, the villa has a special guard again.And there are five of them. To put it bluntly, each group takes turns.Babur has also installed a monitoring system around him, so staying in the villa is basically safe.But outside you can't be sure.

When he went out, he greeted the head of the guard team, and then drove away from the villa.The road is smooth, but he still needs to spend more than half an hour to reach the living management area on the plain over there.

Zhang Feng was already waiting for him outside the office.When he saw his car, he came up to him and said, "Boss, we have no other choice now. We can only try to arrange people on the shore and see how much we can get."

Li Sheng didn't get out of the car either, but let Zhang Feng get in the car.After Zhang Feng got into the car, he said while driving: "The algae must be fished out, otherwise they will rot in the sun for a few days. The whole lake will be ruined by then."

Algae is a good thing.But too much will not work.Too much algae consumes a lot of oxygen during night respiration.Algae can only breathe dissolved oxygen in the water, but in the air, they can't breathe so well.

Because of this, if they stay out of the water for too long, they will die from lack of oxygen.After the algae die and decompose, more oxygen will be consumed, and the whole lake will become a dead lake by then.

Although he originally planned to grow algae in those lakes, he didn't care about the fish in them.But the algae grown in those lakes will be the main raw material for making green manure in the future.If they are not successful, they can only learn the lesson and need to do it again.But they now have to know exactly why the algae burst out.

Those lakes are the ones farthest from the management area.It takes a lot of time to drive there.Li Sheng felt that he would need a special helicopter in the future.Otherwise, you need to drive a long way to visit the farm.

By the lake, Li Sheng and Zhang Feng looked at the mountain of freshwater kelp, which could not be handled by ten trucks without stopping.Both of them are having a bit of trouble.

These algae are an important part of farm cultivation and production. If they are not handled properly, many plans will need to be reworked.Judging from the current situation, this problem is not easy to solve.

The area of ​​the lake is not small, with [-] to [-] mu.Workers can pick up some on the edge of the lake shore.In places with deeper water, all ships are required to operate.And these algae are very heavy, a small boat can only be dragged back, but the algae has great resistance in the water, and it cannot be dragged much at a time.

Li Sheng is also reflecting on himself.I didn't consider the water depth of the lake before, and the enclosed water area like a small lake is completely different from the environment like a big lake.

Large lakes can form a balanced ecosystem, but small lakes on farms have no such foundation.Once the algal blooms grow, the ecosystem will collapse.It would be fine if manpower could change it, but now manpower obviously can't stop it.

Zhang Feng looked at a small boat that had just returned to the shore. Behind it was a bundle of floating macroalgae. This bundle of macroalgae was more than 20 meters long and weighed at least five or six tons.But what grew up with Xiaohu is just a drop in the ocean.

Seeing that Li Sheng was also frowning, he explained: "The resistance of algae in the water is very high, and it can only drag so much. There are ten small boats in this small lake. About [-] tons can be harvested in an hour."

"That much?" Li Sheng didn't think it was too little, but rather too much.He's just going to use it to make green manure for the farm's own use, and doesn't need that much kelp at all.He still thinks it takes up space if there are too many.

(End of this chapter)