Super Ranch: Brothers come to Africa to farm

Chapter 240 The Worrying Potato

After talking to Professor Qin on the phone, Wang Lu also called Parker and asked him to pay more attention to the grain warehouse and cold storage.

Those new rice and corns are likely to bring huge profits to themselves. Now they are not just a reserve grain for the pasture!

In addition, Wang Lu has already started preparing to reclaim more land for rice and corn cultivation!
It looks like the entire ranch is getting busy again.

However, land reclamation does not require much manpower at all, and the John Deere 9620rx can easily handle it, so as not to disturb the time when veterans reunite with their families.

This thing can reclaim two to three hundred acres of land in one hour. It doesn't require a bicycle. It only costs a little fuel.

After Wang Lu drove out the behemoth, it also attracted the attention of the family members of veterans from China.

"Good guy, this big tractor can't be driven by more than ten thousand people. It's much better than the tractors of our brigade!"

"It's just that it's all in foreign language, and we country bumpkins can't understand it. Otherwise, I'll go back and tell my cooperative at home to buy one too!"

"Society is developing too fast. In those days, we could only rely on a hoe to farm. Now it is much more convenient!"

After the veterans informed their families about the price of this John Deere 9620rx, many of the older generation were shocked. A tractor costs several million, which is beyond their knowledge!
Since purchasing this John Deere 9620rx, Wang Lu has also learned how to control it with engineers from John Deere Company and Parker, so now it doesn't feel strange at all when operating it. After a short period of exploration, After that it got better.

Wang Lu soon completed the task and first cultivated two to three hundred acres of land as preparation. This small amount of land was nothing compared to the entire pasture, even in the plain where the living area was located. .

Now that mechanized operations have started, Wang Lushun took the Lovol 704 to show off.

In fact, this Lovol 704 is the main model in the daily work of the ranch. The John Deere 9620rx is mainly prepared for the 704 acres of sisal land and subsequent farming operations. The Lovol [-] is generally used for small operations. It's completely enough.

After the potatoes he planted last time had a good harvest, Wang Lu expanded the scale of planting. Now the growth cycle is almost the same. Fast-growing potato varieties can be harvested within two months of planting. At the same time, the soil of Wang Lu's pasture has increased. Fertility has also played a role in shortening the growth cycle, so the second batch of potatoes planted is now ready for harvest.

Equipped with a special harvesting device, the Lovol 704 began to travel in the potato fields.

Wang Lu has invested quite a lot in agricultural machinery at the ranch. In addition to spending US$50 to purchase the John Deere 9620rx, he also purchased some supporting agricultural equipment, investing at least tens of thousands of US dollars.

For example, professional rice harvesting machinery, corn harvesters, and potato harvesters. Wang Lu's purpose is to replace human labor with machinery, so he can just make money.

After all, the black labor force headed by Amanda is usually responsible for the tasks in the mountains and forests where modern machinery cannot be used, and has almost reached work saturation. If they are asked to take charge of the harvesting tasks on the plains, it would be a bit exploitative.

Wang Lu is not a saint, but he is not like those capitalists who take exploitation to the extreme.

Since this is the case, there are only two ways. One is to continue recruiting black labor. However, Wang Lu, a local black man, is really hard to explain. It is really difficult to recruit black people like Amanda who can endure hardships and have no bad habits. There are some difficulties, and the second is to use machinery to replace manpower.After all, Wang Lu couldn't let the veterans devote most of their energy to these agricultural operations. It was okay to help out occasionally when they were too busy, but if he had to rely entirely on the veterans, it would also involve a lot of security energy from the veterans.

After all, in the past six months, in addition to the intrusions of armed elements and poachers, there would be some guys with evil intentions who wanted to sneak into the ranch to carry out some petty theft almost every once in a while, but they were all killed by the veterans. They found and dealt with it in time.

In such a chaotic environment, Wang Lu naturally knew what to choose.

Anyway, when these mechanical devices are usually idle, they can be kept properly in the warehouse. They only need to be maintained at intervals. When needed, they can be pulled out and put on the tractor to put them into use.

For example, the potato harvesting machinery currently used by Wang Lu uses a jagged bucket that is tilted at an angle that can penetrate tens of centimeters into the soil under the action of thrust, digging out all the potatoes buried in the ground.

Moreover, the specially designed equipment can peel off the round potatoes attached to the fruitful potato roots and transport them to the grain cabin at the back through the conveyor belt, basically requiring very little manual labor.

However, Wang Lu soon noticed something. Farming was fun for a while, but the number of potatoes seemed to have exploded again!

There is no way, the yield of these potatoes is too high, who makes the land of his pasture too fertile.

Looking at the mountains of potatoes harvested, Wang Lu also had a headache for a moment. The family members from China were also filled with emotion. Except for the special period of the last century, when everyone was eating from a big pot, who would I have never seen so much food at once.

Those half-grown boys even climbed up the mountains of potatoes to play. Wang Lu could only bite the bullet and ordered the boys to put all the potatoes into the warehouse.

Anyway, in addition to the cold storage, the ranch has also dug several cellars, which can completely store these potatoes.

At least for the next whole year, Wang Lu will not be able to plant potatoes on a large scale. At most, he will plant potatoes on a small scale. The yield of this thing is really scary.

Just these potatoes in front of you, if you don’t consider the storage problem, just these twenty or thirty mouths in the pasture, I’m afraid I can really eat them until next year!

"The only thing we can do is make more potato vermicelli!"

Wang Lu also muttered helplessly that he had forgotten to eat and not to fight. He should have thought of this problem during the last potato harvest.

Wang Lu's worried look also made his parents and family members laugh mercilessly for a while.

Even this girl Wang Wei started to mock mercilessly:

"Brother, do you plan to stay with potatoes for the rest of your life?"

(End of this chapter)