silent farm

Chapter 23 The rainy season is coming
The next afternoon, two more boats full of calves docked.This boat is specially designed to transport cattle to cattle farms in the Amazon River Basin.After the ship docked, Maverick rushed over from the two-meter-wide bridge built on the deck.

Li Sheng also went to see it, and Maverick was driven off the boat at a relatively slow speed.Li Sheng did a favor by reassuring the calves in front and letting them get off the boat in an orderly manner.Cows are also a herd animal, and the first one gets off the boat safely, and it is easier for the others to overcome their fear.After arriving on land, the employees of the ranch skillfully placed them and then weighed them.

There are fifty or sixty horses on these two ships.The horses are native riding horses.Mainly used for grazing.Before that, Li Sheng planned to use vehicles to graze, but later he saw that the wheels caused a lot of damage to the grassland, so he finally chose horses.

After the horse is down, it cannot be ridden.Because things like saddles are not ready yet.And the cowboy also needs to communicate with these horses in order to ride safely.

The Matsuda Group also sent someone to come with the boat, it was the Indian in the Obidus office.

The cattle had already been counted when they disembarked just now, and the Indian took two people in anti-epidemic clothes to sample and test for several diseases.These tests are all rapid tests.Of course, other quarantines have already been carried out before the cattle get on the ship.The quarantine at this meeting is mainly to see if the cattle have any infectious diseases during transportation.After they tested it, they could ask Li Sheng to sign it, and after the weighing was completed, the batch of cattle would be handed over.

After that day, more and more boats brought cattle over.Matsuda Group's explanation is that the rainy season is coming soon.Transporting large numbers of cattle in the Amazon during the rainy season is not very safe.In addition, the physical function of the calf will decline during transportation. If it is exposed to rain at this time, it is easy to get sick.So they plan to move all the cattle to Silent Ranch before the rainy season.

This also increases the workload on the ranch.On the most day, a total of sixteen cattle ships arrived.Fortunately, at this time, there were forty workers in the ranch.Cattle were loaded and unloaded from the boat all day long in two shifts.

After half a month of hard work, all the cattle ordered by the ranch were finally delivered to the ranch.

The very clear fact is that Li Sheng is not a farmer.He left the countryside when he was 11 years old.So he broke away from the glorious political identity of farmers very early.Of course he can still plant rice seedlings.When it comes to herding cattle, he really has never done such a romantic thing as playing the flute on the back of an ox.

Although his family also plowed the fields back then, it was not worth raising a cow because of the small number of acres.So he would dig out a vegetable field with a hoe, but he really couldn't do anything about letting him graze such a large herd of cattle.

He has no idea about the grazing of large herds of cattle.For example, when he saw those heifers, he saw that they had no horns on their heads. If their faces looked like cows, he even wondered whether these things were crossed between cows and horses.

This is what Zhang Feng told him: "Because it is a large herd, if the cattle have horns, once the cattle attack each other, it is easy to be injured. It is also a danger to the grazing workers. So before the cattle grow horns, They do it with a soldering iron, which destroys the growing area of ​​the horns. If you don’t do that, you can also saw off the horns after they’ve grown, which is what nomads in Africa do.”

And he can only say "oh oh", to show surprise.

He looked at the Huaxia cowboys riding horses and grazing, and he really felt a little envious in his heart.But I'm not envious that they can ride horses.Because in fact, he can also ride a horse.At the beginning, he had learned it in China, but he didn't have his own horse at that time.

Now there are a total of two hundred riding horses in the ranch, and he can ride them if he wants to.But after he rode it once, he felt that it was not interesting, and he didn't have the feeling of galloping.These horses are much worse than those in space.It seems that we have to find a chance to get two horses out of the space.

All-terrain vehicles are required unless they are transporting goods on the ranch. These vehicles use batteries and are light, but they can also carry some things. There is no problem with taking five or six people.Their large wheels and low unit pressure cause much less damage to grass than other vehicles.

He drove the battery car to the pigsty that had just been built.The piglets inside are still very small, only two or three kilograms each, but they will not exceed ten kilograms when they grow up to the maximum.These were all obtained from Zhang Feng's friends.His friend returned home disheartened after receiving the money.

Now there are more than 300 pairs of adult fragrant pigs in the pasture, and there are [-] piglets.But these pigs are not recognized.If he wants to raise and sell them, he must help these pigs obtain legal status.

It's not a problem to let him do it.After all, it's about money.He took out a sum of money, not much, that is, hundreds of thousands of reais.Then after quarantine, all the documents were processed.Now these pigs can be slaughtered and sold.He also applied for a provenance patent.This pig will be called the Silent Little Pig in the future.

The meat of this pig is really fragrant and crispy.If large-scale farming is performed well, the market should be very strong.It's just that no one will breed this kind of pig now.He just arranged for people to raise them in the same way as ordinary pigs.However, artificial feed is not fed, and only grass and rice are fed for the time being.Although the cost is higher.But after all, it is better than feeding those who must have genetically modified feed.He doesn't plan to sell these pigs for the time being.He plans to start selling when the number reaches 20.During this period of time, construction teams have been carrying out construction, and many such pig pens have been built.The advantage of this kind of pig is that it is small in size, and the number that can be raised in an ordinary pigpen is much larger than those of those big fat pigs.So even if 20 head are raised, there will not be much pork to sell.

In order to breed these pigs, he plans to adjust the breeds grown on the arable land.Previously only wheat and rice were intended to be grown.Now it looks like he needs to grow some soybeans and corn.Of course he wasn't going to plant those genetically modified seeds.

However, these are currently unavailable.Because the rainy season is coming.

Plains are different from mountains.Moist air from the Atlantic flows westward over the plains.There are almost no obstacles along the way.Until they encountered the Andes, these air masses continued to rise along the terrain, the temperature dropped, and the air masses had to spit out some of their stomachs as tolls.This kind of rain can last for several days or even more than a month, and then it will be sunny for a long time.

In other words, in fact, the water vapor brought by the ocean will not cause precipitation in the plains to a large extent.But the Amazon plain is one of the wettest places in the world.The annual precipitation here is more than two meters thick.In other words, a person of average height can be drowned by the rain.So where does this water come from?

rainforest!

Li Sheng only remembered this truth in the past few days.Because the rainy season has started everywhere else, even the jungle area in the northern part of the ranch has been raining for several days.But there was only one rain on the grassland.It's like seeing rain in other places from a distance, but it just doesn't rain in your own place.

It rains sometimes at the edge of this steppe.It was donated when it rained in the surrounding rainforest.Fortunately, the grasslands of the ranch don't need so much rain.A little less rain might be a good thing for cattle on pastures.

This piece of land that has lost the rainforest is too large, and the narrowest point is more than 70 kilometers.The precipitation formation mechanism of the rainforest in the plain is very simple, that is, a large amount of water vapor evaporates in the morning, the air heats up in the afternoon, and then cools down.This is the legendary convective rain.Grasslands that have lost the rainforest do not have enough water vapor, so of course it is impossible for it to rain every day.

But it is undeniable that the rainy season in the Amazon rainforest has arrived.

(End of this chapter)