silent farm

Chapter 155 Good News and Bad News

In the past six months, Fernando's visits to Silent Farm have increased significantly.Today he came again.

Just after dawn, Li Sheng received a call from him saying that he would come to the farm.Li Sheng could only postpone his plan to go to Manaus.

Fernando is from Santarém.He even caught up to have breakfast with Li Sheng.

Although Tia was a little disappointed with the temporary cancellation of the plan to go out with Li Sheng, she didn't show it.She was quite familiar with Fernando. After breakfast, she made tea, and then sat obediently beside Li Sheng.

Li Sheng looked at her like a little daughter-in-law, smiled and said to her, "Fernando and I will go outside for a while." It's still early and the temperature is still acceptable.

Tia blinked, pursed her lips and nodded.She actually wanted to stay with Li Sheng more, but Li Sheng said that, so she could only stay at home.

After Fernando and Li Sheng walked out of the villa, they smiled softly and said, "Li, you broke a little girl's heart."

For Tia, an indigenous girl, his senses are quite good.She is pretty and doesn't have the rusticity of the aborigines. Although she is still young, she will definitely be a woman who will make men's hearts fall in love when she grows up.Moreover, it can be seen that this girl has already put her heart on Li Sheng at a young age.

What Li Sheng did just now was invisibly refusing the girl to participate in his affairs.How sad is this for a little girl with a clear heart?
But Li Sheng didn't understand this.He has been in love, and three times, but failed.Perhaps this can show from the side that he is not high in emotional intelligence.

He glanced at Fernando and said, "You didn't come to me specifically to talk about these things, did you?"

The two got into the all-terrain vehicle in the garage outside the villa, and Li Sheng didn't drive too fast. He came out mainly to breathe the outdoor air.Mornings are a rare good time.Later, the temperature will be too high to make outdoor activities.

Of course, Fernando didn't come here to care about Li Sheng's feelings. When the all-terrain vehicle drove out of the yard of the villa, he said the first purpose of this visit: "Didn't you talk about the farm's wheat sales last time? The three major grain companies have negotiated, and they will need a total of 42 tons of wheat, and about [-] tons of rice.”

"This is good news." Li Sheng said with a smile.

If this is the case, with this amount plus the amount that Chen Bo negotiated in China, the farm can almost produce the remaining wheat that survived last year.Although Fernando gave him some bad impressions, in fact, the sales of Silent Farm's products are really inseparable from this person!
Fernando also said with a smile: "But the price can't be too high, because this year's virus is raging, and the international wheat price is a little higher. Our wheat quality can at least be considered good, and the price per ton is [-] reais, but we deliver the goods .The price of rice is [-] reais per ton. We also need to deliver the goods.”

The price of rice is so much higher than the price of wheat, mainly because the unit price of rice in Silent Farm is already high, and it has been packaged and can be sold directly.And this is still slightly lower than the price of exporting to Great China.Wheat also needs to be processed into flour and packaged before it can be sold.

And Li Sheng didn't have much opinion on it.So far, Silent Farm's rice has only been sold to Europe and Asia.If the Brazilian market can be opened, it will be a great thing for the farm's rice sales.

"You did a good job. The price is completely acceptable." Li Sheng was quite satisfied with this.Of course, 10% of these prices belong to their joint trading company.But that was not unacceptable to Li Sheng.If he is asked to find the market by himself, it may not be able to achieve this effect.

Fernando looked at the farm which had become more and more wild, and said with a smile: "The sales volume of rice is still difficult to increase because the price is too high. This time they are willing to buy so much at once because of bundled sales. You really didn't intend to Lower the price of rice?"

The annual rice output of Silent Farm is slightly higher than the wheat output.After all, the two kinds of grains are planted alternately in the dry season and the rainy season, and the planting area is almost the same, and the unit yield of rice is much higher than that of wheat.Silent Farm's rice sales are likely to encounter problems in the future.

Of course, those are not what Fernando needs to worry about.His concern is that the more products Silent Farm sells, the more money he makes.If he can lower the price a little and sell all the rice in Silent Farm, he will gain more than he can only sell one-third of the production at the current price.Most importantly, capturing the market is the key to maintaining profits.

Li Sheng could not agree with his suggestion.

He shook his head and said, "That's impossible. You can tell from the test report. The rice quality and trace elements of Silent Farm's rice are very suitable for human needs, and the protein content is 0.5% higher than ordinary rice. Needless to say, the taste If the price is lowered, I would rather not grow it."

In fact, the quality of those wheat is also very good.No matter according to the standards of that country, it is the highest quality product.If it weren't for the large output, he wouldn't sell it at the current low price.

The car came to the golf course. The grass of the golf course has been trimmed and it looks like a golf course. However, Li Sheng still hasn't played here.

After the two got out of the car, they walked on it while talking about things.

Fernando was a little helpless to Li Sheng's stubbornness, so he had no choice but to say: "Well, in fact, the sales volume of rice in Europe has been increasing steadily, and there are some gains in Ali's side. Maybe one day we will be able to sell all of our rice of."

However, he didn't want to get entangled in this issue, so he changed the subject after a pause: "There is another thing, the sales of truffles in Europe have encountered some difficulties, and the difficulties will be even greater in the future."

"what happened?"

"Because the truffles we exported to Europe accounted for at least 70% of the truffle market in the past few months, the distributors there began to unite against us. Those months were the production period of black summer truffles, and the quality of that stuff was truffles. Worst of all. So it doesn't affect us too much."

"what about now?"

"It is the production period of Italian white truffles from now to December, which is the best truffle produced naturally. So it has a great impact on our market. In North America, there will also be a two-month truffle production period. ’ he sneered. "Many gourmets in Europe are now looking for wild truffles."

Shopping malls are like battlefields, and competition is always multi-faceted and multi-faceted.The opponent is relatively mild in using such means.Li Sheng couldn't blame anything.And all they can do is find a way to sell more truffles.

And Fernando said: "And next March is the production period of black truffles. I think they will also boycott our truffles in the same way."

Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "Don't tell me, you didn't invite gourmets?"

Fernando laughed and said, "Of course, gourmets belong to the world." He stopped laughing and said again. "Now we are basically on a tie with them, and we can still maintain about 50% of the market share. But I don't think that is enough."

Li Sheng thought for a while, pursed his lips, and said, "You want to lower the price?" If you don't want to play tricks, the most beneficial way for Silent Farm is to fight a price war.

Fernando glanced at him, nodded and said, "I do have this idea. The quality of our truffles is no worse than wild ones. As long as the price is lowered, the overall market can be expanded. The production of wild truffles is limited, and we can occupy this area. parts of the market."

As for the price cut, Li Sheng couldn't make a decision right away.He felt that a price war was not a good idea.He thought for a while and said, "Can we start from the efficacy?"

Truffles are a kind of luxury that has appeared and been touted for hundreds of years. The research in Europe has already been very thorough.At the beginning, Fernando brought some to test, and it was mainly for safety.As for the nutritional value and therapeutic value, it has not been studied in depth.

And in the eyes of Europeans, the same things are the same.If first given a cylindrical wooden rod as a reference, then hold a plastic cylindrical rod and a wooden cuboid and ask them which is closer to the reference.The vast majority of Westerners will choose the short cylindrical rod made of plastic.The reason is that it is consistent with the shape of the reference object.

All truffles are the same, that's what Westerners think.There is a difference, and the bigger, the probably better flavor.

And Li Sheng didn't like truffles very much, so he didn't use them for testing.However, he felt that the things taken out of the space might be better.Like rice and wheat.

Li Sheng was about to continue talking when his cell phone rang.

Seeing that the call was from Anthony, he smiled apologetically at Fernando and connected the call.

Anthony said on the phone: "Li, I just received calls from traders from Jipan and Nanchao countries. They hope to visit you. Do you want to meet them? When are you free?"

Li Sheng subconsciously wanted to refuse.In the Asian market, all the products of Silent Farm have been handed over to Chen Bo and Luo Zheng.However, if he refused, he still stopped on his lips.

He is also a businessman, and he will not offend others if he can.He was on the edge of his mouth, and what he said was indeed something else: "Who are they?"

"The one from the chicken plate claims to be the deputy general manager of Songqi Agricultural Trading Co., Ltd. The one from Nanchao claims to be the director of the Daehan Food Import and Export Corporation."

Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "Just say you can't contact me for the time being. I'll contact you later." He needed to ask Chen Bo.He suspected that these two people might have contacted Chen Bo before.Maybe it was because I didn't have an agreement with Chen Bo that I found this place.Whether it is true or not, Li Sheng's way of dealing with it also needs to be different.

After Li Sheng hung up the phone, he said to Fernando, "I'm sorry. It was Anthony who called and said that there are agricultural traders from Jipan and Nanchao."

Fernando chuckled and said, "It seems that your friend has also encountered competition."

Li Sheng recalled that when Chen Bo returned to China, he talked about the promotion of the market in the two countries. The chicken plate was still good, but the country of Bangzi encountered great resistance.Now that the two countries came to the door almost at the same time, he was also a little curious, wanting to see what their purpose was.

(End of this chapter)