silent farm

Chapter 17 The Brain-Opening Cattle Raising Plan

After listening to Babur's explanation, although Li Sheng felt cheated.But he also knew that the three of them could not be blamed for this matter.

Before meeting them, the contract had already been signed, and the final confirmation was the only thing left.At that time, even if he wanted to repent, it was useless.Indigenous people have nothing to do with the topography of the land.He wants to use this to fight the lawsuit, but he is not sure of winning.

Compared with being cheated, he was more angry with the actions of those workers: "Those guys died well. The indigenous people may not be as good as us in all aspects, but they are also human beings. And in the final analysis, they are the real masters here, we just The robbers who broke into their house. That was the case with the Portuguese, and it is the same with us today."

Thomas stopped laughing at this time, and said slightly seriously: "After that, we also searched in the air, but we didn't find the aborigines' station. Later we just thought they were passing by. But since they are in our In the forest, we must be more careful when entering the forest in the future.”

Several people were affected by that incident, and they took the things off the car in silence.The bullets were basically Li Sheng's, so they were put in the storage room of the wooden villa.

In the evening, the four of them barbecued outdoors again, and Thomas then talked about why the three of them came back together.

It turned out that Thomas lived in the central United States, while the other two lived in the western United States.The best brand of agricultural machinery that Li Sheng wanted to buy was in the west, so he ran there.After that, I talked with the two of them on the phone and made an appointment to come back together.

Speaking of agricultural machinery, Thomas told Li Sheng: "Those tractors are very good. Many large farms in the United States use them. It is more oily. I think our oil depot needs to be expanded."

Relative gas guzzler is one of the main characteristics of motor vehicles in the United States.But for Li Sheng, this is not very important.The important thing is that it may take half a month for those machines to arrive in Brazil, and it may take almost a month for all of them to be transported to the farm, and it is already the rainy season at that time.This might be a bit late.

But that can't be helped.Even if the order is made in Brazil, with the efficiency of the Brazilians, it may take a month before the item arrives.

Speaking of business, Babur also had some thoughts: "Li, it seems that the pasture on the pasture is very good. I think we should consider buying some cattle. But we are not cowboys, and we don't know much about grazing. If you If you want to graze, I’m afraid you need to find some professionals to do this work.”

The pasture here is located in the tropics, the transformed land is fertile, and the lake is moist, so the grass can grow all year round.One hectare of pasture is estimated to hold [-] to [-] tons of fresh grass.This yield is still due to allowing it to grow like this. If it is harvested regularly, the yield may be increased by two or three times.For ordinary grass, thirty tons per hectare would be pretty good.

This is due to the use of space for lake water and space for pasture.After the pasture germinates, it can grow two to three centimeters per day, but within a week, it grows five to six centimeters per day. If the leaves are not soft and curved, the current pasture leaves are at least [-] centimeters long.This growth is indeed quite amazing.But that's all the grass has grown to.After this length, the leaves turn blue and begin to accumulate sugar and other dry matter.

Li Sheng also calculated that if a mature cow is only fed fresh grass, it needs to eat eight to twelve tons of fresh grass a year.Theoretically, the pasture limit can graze 450 million head of cattle.However, he cannot stock so many.If the breeding density is too high, the cattle are prone to diseases.He will only breed half of this theoretical amount at most.

Of course, with 200 million head, he will definitely not be able to raise that many in a short period of time, because there is no way to find that many cattle.

If it is ordinary grass, the amount of grazing will be less.Because cow dung is a huge problem.If the cow dung is not disposed of in time, the entire pasture will be infested with flies, and the dried cow dung will also damage the grassland.Australia has been troubled by this problem for many years, and it was improved after the introduction of dung beetles from China.

And the pasture he took out from the space has another very crucial benefit, which is that it can just solve this problem.In space, he saw that there was almost no animal waste on the grassland.Even where the herd has just passed by.Cow manure can also disappear completely in a few days, and there will be no dregs left.

Later, he took some soil and grass from the meadow and felt it carefully. There are many tiny creatures in the roots of the grass.That should be decomposing bacteria.With such bacteria, cow dung will be quickly decomposed into nutrients for pasture.He had also worried that those bacteria were unique to space.It turned out that the pastures he grew in his ranch had a lot of the same bacteria.That means he doesn't need to worry about cow dung.

Of course Li Sheng knew that none of the four people present were capable of herding large herds of cattle.He had never really worked in farming before, and Babur and the others were all from the city, and they all came out of the army, so they were not suitable for grazing.Babur's concerns are very reasonable.

He nodded and said, "That is indeed a problem. But I heard that Brazilians are lazy, so I am not very relieved to let them graze."

Anthony was the first to come to Brazil, and he may be the one who knows the Brazilians best among the four: "Brazilians are not necessarily lazy. It's just too romantic, that's their national nature. But grazing requires long hours of work every day. If the work is done by Brazilians who never like to work overtime, it is indeed not so reassuring."

"I think we can invite a few Australian cowboys, American cowboys or Chinese people who have experience in grazing large herds. The cattle herds of Australian cowboys may not be as large as Americans. But their pastures are usually very large, and they graze on large pastures. There are certain advantages. Although American cowboys have rich experience in managing large herds, American farms are no longer grazing these years. The real job of many cowboys is not grazing, but feeding the cattle. They may not be grazing. Yes. The Huaxia people originally had no herding experience, but they learned quickly when they came to Brazil or in the United States. Now many cattle farms in Brazil employ Chinese people. They think that the Chinese people are hardworking and patient.”

"Australians and Americans are not necessarily willing to work here. Let's try to find some Chinese first."

Li Sheng didn't even have to think about it.If you want to hire people, of course the priority is to hire Chinese people.Of course under the same conditions.

Now that the Huaxia people also have experience in raising large herds of cattle, who should they invite?

Anthony nodded and said: "I also think it is most suitable to invite Chinese people. Americans and Australians have higher requirements for working conditions. Chinese people can create working conditions, which is incomparable to people from other countries." He paused Dayton, say. "We can go to some places where cattle farms are more concentrated to post recruitment information."

Thomas also said: "Of course, we also need to buy a lot of calves and cows. Lee, you are going to spend a lot of money this time."

Li Sheng did some calculations, and he still had less than 4000 million euros in savings.If you need to buy a cow, a calf that is a few months old needs two hundred to three hundred euros, and a heifer may need seven or eight hundred euros. 4000 million euros may not be able to buy many heads.And he must leave a part to maintain the operation of the ranch.

In fact, there were no cattle in South America, but now there are 3000 million cattle in Brazil alone, and the number of cattle on hand has already ranked first in the world.

Brazilian cattle are of course imported from outside.This introduction dates back to colonial times.Now more than 80% of Brazil's cattle are zebu imported from India, but today's cattle breeds are domestically improved breeds.

It is precisely because of the large number of cattle in the country that Brazilians consume a lot of beef.The average person can eat nearly 90 catties of beef every year.That's pretty remarkable in the world.This also leads to relatively low beef prices in Brazil.Brazil's beef export volume is also quite large, but more than 31% of Brazil's cattle are rough-bred, and the average age of slaughter reaches 25 months.Compared with the [-]-[-] months in the United States, the beef is of course older, so it is basically exported as low- and medium-grade beef.

Relatively speaking, Brazilian beef is quite cheap.The live weight of a fattening cow is only about six reais per kilogram.If it is breeding cattle, it is even less than 4.5 reais.Now because of the rise in food prices, feed prices are also rising.Such prices have become less and less profitable for the cattle industry.

But if such a large piece of land does not raise cattle, is it all cultivated?That obviously didn't fit Li Sheng's idea.His vision was to live a quiet life.As for making money, there is no problem with how much, as long as you can live your life.Moreover, land is an important asset. He believes that the transformed pasture is enough to increase the value of this land several times.In fact, he is already making money now, but the money cannot be exchanged for cash.

The location of his ranch is very good, surrounded by forests or rivers, it looks a bit isolated from the world.There are about [-] square kilometers of pastures and pastures.

According to the current density of cattle raised by Brazilians, in the tropical grasslands of the Brazilian plateau, only one cow can be raised per hectare.In the cattle farms developed in the Amazon Basin, one hectare may only support one-third of the head of cattle.

According to his calculations, even if it is purely feeding grass, it is not a big problem to raise three cows per hectare in his pasture.But that's the limit.So he saw this information, and he decided that the upper limit of the breeding density of the pasture is two cattle per hectare.And all stocking.Calculated to raise 180 million cattle.

(End of this chapter)