American Ranch

Chapter 197
River Valley Ranch, the fourth largest ranch in California by land area.

An area with large flat lands, Dry Valley 2470 acres, planted with alfalfa.

The Dry Valley has 1750 acres, including 230 acres of vineyards, 35 acres of walnuts, and the rest are Garbo Orchard, Mystery Orchard, Fig Orchard, Peach Orchard, and Big Cherry Orchard.

In the middle and lower reaches of the Morro Valley, the pasture cattle and sheep breeding area has a total area of ​​3300 acres.

Santana Valley Plain and Huaxi Canyon, cattle and sheep breeding area.Among them, the plain area of ​​Santana Valley is 4500 acres, and the area of ​​Huaxi Canyon is 975 acres...

These are large flat tracts of land totaling 2.786 acres.

There are also hills, forests, and the entire pasture area exceeds 4 acres.

If you go from the plains of the Monterey Valley to the hilly area of ​​the valley ranch, then to the Dry Valley, Morro Valley, Santana Valley, and finally to Huaxi Canyon, the entire journey is 47 kilometers.

If you want to walk around the ranch, rolling hills, you may not be able to walk all day.

The accountant sorted out all the incoming and outgoing accounts of the ranch, and it took Chen Mo two days to go through them.

The Dry River Valley Ranch bought from Garrison Investment Company was later renamed River Valley Ranch by Chen Mo... At that time, it cost 2.485 million.

Afterwards, it built a cattle and sheep breeding base, bought two small and medium-sized ranches in the Morro Valley, and then bought three small ranches downstream, with a total cost of 2490 million US dollars.

Buyout Bright Bull, $3760 million.

Santana Valley Ranch and Flower Creek Canyon Ranch, a total of $3700 million.

1.3 acres of hills belonging to the City of Field, $670 million.

The purchase of Dorper sheep, the construction of the ranch, the purchase of machinery and equipment, labor expenses, and various odds and ends... nearly $5500 million.

Build a winery...

In the office, Chen Mo scratched his head: "The income from the sale of the Hegu Ranch was 3.55 million... No, there were 1.55 million US dollars of stock at the beginning, and the total accounted for was 3.582 million US dollars. Afterwards, part of the stock of Tangxia Yipin was sold, and the account was 4000 million US dollars. "

"But this money... When I came to San Francisco, I still had 800 million in my bank, and the Xueshan Ranch had nearly [-] million in my account. But when Tangxia Yipin raised funds, I spent some money..."

The land part of the entire river valley ranch cost 3.2 million.

Purchases of cattle and sheep and other expenses have cost $8260 million at this stage.

There are still some expenses that have not been accounted for, but Chen Mo spent it himself, such as buying Jiabao fruit trees and so on.

The River Valley Ranch only started to make profits in the middle and late April. The main profit point is goat milk, which earns tens of thousands of dollars every day. 4+ credits...

Also sold nearly 107 sheep and [-] Brett cattle...

However, the current book capital of the ranch is only 168 million.

River Valley Ranch currently has 161 employees (uncle Chen Mo and aunt left the ranch), and the monthly salary expenditure is as high as 115 million US dollars.At the same time, there are various other expenses... Up to now, the ranch has to spend 170 million yuan a month to maintain basic normal operation.

However, as long as the sales of fresh milk are normal, the ranch can earn 400 million US dollars from this alone.

Headache, if I knew that Bright was so unreliable, I should have come back to personally supervise the construction of the winery, and I could save several million.

"Boss." Brett poked his head at the door, holding a return list, with a cowardly face and a mischievous smile on his face.

How many barrels were returned today?
512 barrels, 79 barrels more than yesterday.

牧场鲜奶的最高产量记录是单日2611桶，单日最高销售记录是2533桶。昨天的销售记录不清楚……但总体销售已经跌到2000桶以下。最近5天，平均销售应该在1800桶左右。

"The Albertsons store still hasn't recommended us a seat?" Chen Mo took the return list, looked at it, and clamped it on the wall.

"In the commodity exhibition area, each counter costs 3000 US dollars. There are a total of 38 stores, which is 11.4 a day."

"Damn! Do you charge for other showcases?"

"Maybe not……"

Chen Mo took a deep breath: "Have you contacted Kahn?"

"Contacted, he will arrive in San Jose tomorrow and promise to meet with you."

"Hmm... organic milk certification, have you got the green label?"

"20 green tags, $5 each. On the way back..."

"Not $9.5 a piece?"

"Of course not, it's only $5 a piece, which is already a sky-high price."

USDA's organic certification is charged according to a certain percentage of the total value of the commodity, usually 2% to 4% of the total value.

Nima's egg hurts...

$5 a piece, seven percent of the selling price. 9.5 is seven percent of the retail price...

For $5 a piece, it's not bad.

20 copies, enough for a period of time.

Chen Mo lit a cigarette, the wool came from the sheep, the money must not be paid by the ranch.

今后牧场推出的有机鲜奶不再是只有6.5磅的单一产品，有6.5磅、4.5磅、2.5磅和1.5磅。

"The 20 organic labels will not be pasted for the time being. Be careful to keep them secret." Chen Mo said, got up, opened the safe, and took out the sales contract and supplementary agreement signed with Albertson's store, but they couldn't hand them over.
Chen Mo has seen this contract many times: "The Albertson store signed a purchase contract with us, 6.5 pounds of goat milk, 1000 barrels per day. Is this part of the purchase contract?"

"Yes." Bright nodded: "At the beginning, Albertson's store saw that our fresh milk was selling well, and signed a supplementary underwriting contract with us, that is, a purchase contract. It purchased at least 1000 barrels per day and was signed on July 7. Contract. The contract period is 18 year, and the liquidated damages are 1 million U.S. dollars."

Chen Mo snapped his fingers: "I can't kill them. Starting tomorrow, we will deliver according to the sales contract, and only deliver 1000 barrels per day."

"What about the leftover goat's milk?"

"I'll go to Ellison's company later." Chen Mo stroked the stubble of his chin: "For the workers in the fresh milk factory, you sign a labor contract with them, requiring that all work procedures must be strictly regulated. Fresh milk factory installation Is there surveillance?"

"of course."

"Is the certification process for organic milk standardized or not?"

"Definitely the norm."

The US Department of Agriculture is certified by the fee, and the price is not low.But also very strict...

Although it is impossible to monitor the whole process during the certification process, spot checks will be made from time to time during the fresh milk production process, and the product will be inspected from time to time.

"Try to be able to trace it back to every production link, and make it clear to the relevant person in charge. We may tear ourselves apart with the Albertsons store this time..."

"I don't think it's necessary, right?" Bright shook his head: "You've already rejected the cooperation from Tesco Supermarket, and you've offended Albertson's store again. The future business of the ranch..."

"They have already ridden on our heads, how can we bear with it and wait for them to shit and pee on our heads?" Chen Mo is rarely angry, but seeing the sales of fresh milk on the farm drop day by day, his heart aches.

The price of fresh milk from pastures is indeed expensive, with an exit price of US$70 per barrel.

But in the supermarket, the price in the supermarket is 137.5 US dollars, and the other party also has a high profit, even higher than the profit of the ranch.

Chen Mo suspects that the new CEO of Albertsons Store in California is a spy of Tesco Supermarket...

(End of this chapter)