American Ranch

Chapter 430 Putting into Production
Housing prices in Coconut State will definitely rise, and it will skyrocket...

Well-informed people have been hoarding houses since May.

There are many factors that affect housing prices, the first is administrative factors.Then there's the location factor, and the regional economy...

There should not be too many relocated households in Coconut State, because the relocated households get rich overnight.

Another factor that affects housing prices is the environment. The environment in Dongzhou, Coconut State, is already good. Now that aquaculture is under control, the environment will be even better in the future.There are also community public facilities. Dongzhou will invest tens of billions in public infrastructure construction...

And Chen Mo's speculative real estate is mainly Dongzhou.

Coming out of the municipal administration, Chen Mo drove around to Dongzhou, and the pond was basically filled.There are also many houses being demolished in batches, village by village, and population gathering areas are being re-planned.

A few days later, the blueprint of Coconut State was released, confirming the Dongzhou Development Zone. Several commercial housing developers who had previously signed contracts with Yunshan Investment Company wanted to break the contract, but they dared not.These real estate developers also have to weigh up whether they can mess with companies that spend tens of billions of dollars to buy commercial housing for speculation...

In the feed mill, the drying tower installed first can finally be put into use.

The drying tower can be put into use, which shows that some of the biogas digesters in Yunshan Sewage and Waste Treatment Center have already started to produce biogas.

This part of the biogas digester is fed with plant stalks and manure from the river valley animal husbandry side.It has just been put into use, and the biogas production is still very small...

Back to the ranch, I saw small harvesters harvesting sweet elephant grass in the field.The sweet elephant grass has been planted for two months, and the growth rate is much faster than expected.

Sweet elephant grass seedlings can grow to about 20 meters 25-1.5 days after the emergence of sweet elephant grass in areas with suitable temperature and climate, and can be harvested for the first time.

For the sweet elephant grass in the valley pasture, the first harvest was delayed until the 61st day after emergence, and the seedlings had grown to a height of about 3 meters.Because it is the first harvest, the root system of the seedlings is not yet developed, and the yield per mu is only 12 tons (grass yield), but compared with ordinary sweet elephant grass, the yield is not a little bit higher.

The machine for harvesting sweet elephant grass has a grass crushing function, and a tractor is responsible for cooperating with it.

In order to protect the soil, a small harvester is used, and the operation speed is a little slower. One machine can only harvest about 15 mu in an hour.

Kang Si, the supervisor, looked anxiously from the side.This speed is too slow...

"Boss, why don't you use a large harvester. The current operation speed is too slow." Kang Si was very speechless, and Chen Mo just came back and complained.

"The land here is expensive, and the labor cost is cheap. Is the factory area ready to receive grass?" Chen Mo got out of the car, handed the key to Cohen, and asked him to drive the car away.

"It's ready. Now there are three drying towers that can be put into use, but I don't know if the sewage treatment center can guarantee the supply of liquid biogas." There is a lot of natural gas stored in the sewage treatment center, but the energy consumption of the drying towers, Also big.

The current three drying towers are 'small drying towers', which are specially used for drying pasture. The design standard is to ship 24 tons of pasture (dry pasture) in 400 hours.There is usually a big error between design standards and actual operation...

The forage was transported by trailer tractors. Seeing how many trucks the forage had been sent away, a group of people went to the project.

There are three drying towers, each of which is more than ten meters high.The hot blast stove is already burning, and the crushed pasture is transported in the field, and directly enters the heat flow pipe of the drying tower for drying...

Chen Mo went into the control workshop. Chen Mo couldn't understand the instruments in the workshop: "How much biogas is consumed per hour?"

"I don't know yet. But it is estimated that the cost is relatively expensive..." Kang Si shook his head.There are theoretical data for things like drying towers, but the data in actual operations needs to be verified.

The contractor of the drying tower is also here. An engineer said: "The consumption of biogas per hour is estimated to be about 450 cubic meters."

Kang Si glanced at the other party. This value is definitely unreliable, so there is no need to doubt it.

Valley Animal Husbandry also built a drying tower with biogas as fuel. The actual consumption of biogas is very large, and it is not cost-effective to use it for high-tower drying equipment.It's cheaper to use coal...

It was almost noon when we arrived at the drying tower, and the drying tower normally operated until 7:30 p.m., with a total working time of 9 hours. The three drying towers produced a total of 490 tons of dry pasture.

After nine o'clock in the evening, Kang Si and Luo Zhi found Chen Mo together, and took Chen Mo out for a meeting.

The three drying stations operate for nine hours, consuming 1.49 cubic meters of energy.

Industrially processed biogas can basically be used as natural gas.As for the price of natural gas, when it is delivered to residents, the price for one party is about 2 yuan.

Yunshan Feed Factory buys biogas, and one side of biogas (biogas after industrial treatment) costs 0.5 yuan.

"Boss, a drying tower, needs 5 technicians during the operation period, and the per capita monthly salary is 1.3 yuan. The use cost of the drying tower, the salary cost of personnel per hour, is 340 yuan. During the working period of the drying tower, every Hourly energy bills, gas and electricity bills are about 320 yuan."

Cohen lays out the production cost statement...

The hourly cost of a small drying tower is about 660 yuan.

It can produce 18 tons of dry grass per hour, which is much higher than the expected output.not bad……

The drying tower is mainly used to produce dry storage feed, and the dry storage feed is cheap, 1 ton is 350 yuan.

Pasture planting (including harvesting and transportation), feed processing (grass drying, processing), production cost of 18 tons of dry storage feed... From pasture to processing, the cost of 18 tons of dry storage feed is about 2000 yuan.The price of 18 tons of dry storage feed is 6300 yuan.

In other words, there is a profit of almost 1 yuan for 240 ton of dry storage feed.

This is a preliminary profit calculation, which includes equipment maintenance.But without calculating equipment depreciation...

Pretty good profit too.In the later period, the factory will be fully operational, and the cost can be further reduced.

"There are still nearly 3000 mu of sweet elephant grass waiting to be harvested in the ranch. The feed factory will start production tomorrow. Is there any problem?" Chen Mo asked.

Cohen shook his head: "No problem. By the way, you have to ask Moxi to speed up the land reclamation, and the construction speed of the factory area is very fast."

"Well. Why don't you talk to Moxie yourself?"

"I talked to him. But Moxi said it was already the fastest speed, and he told me that the funds allocated for reclamation on your side are not enough..."

Chen Mo scratched his head: "Hegu Animal Husbandry and Rich Farm Company need sow feed and ewe feed. Feed formula. Hegu Animal Husbandry has ready-made feed formulas. Have you asked them for it?" Yes, not buying... …these recipes are not classified.Organic formula, without too many additives...

"They are still researching the ingredients of dried sweet elephant grass. After that, they will send us the formula for processing. Bright asked us if we want corn, non-GMO corn, 1825 yuan per ton, including transportation costs."

"U.S. corn?" China and the United States are still engaging in trade confrontation, and corn tariffs have been increased to 20.00%.

Now American corn is sold to other countries first, and then enters China... Now is the financial crisis, but instead of reducing prices, some commodities have increased in price.

"Brazilian corn."

"When did Brett get involved with corn?" Chen Mo was speechless.

"The River Valley Feed Plant also needs to purchase a large amount of corn. There is very little corn planted in the United States this year, and a lot of Brazilian corn... Brazilian corn is relatively cheap, and the corn for the River Valley Animal Feed Plant is imported from Brazil." Constance said.

"Okay, how many tons."

"50 tons. 50 tons are sold as a whole. If you want it, you can send it over. If you don't want it, Bright will sell it to other companies in the United States."

50 tons, some of which should be futures...

"Go ahead. Send them all here." 1825 yuan per ton, dozens of yuan cheaper than the current market price: "It must be non-GMO corn, and we will test it after it is delivered here."

"Of course. Brett needs to pay in cash..." Kang Si looked at Chen Mo. He knew that Chen Mo's funds were also very tight, and he wondered if he could still come up with so much money.

"Pay 30.00% first. The remaining funds will be paid within three months."

"I'll ask Brett..."

That bastard, Brett, can pay in installments, but with interest.

(End of this chapter)