silent farm

Chapter 101 The Unnoticed Threat

Although Li Sheng has never been to other pastures, he has seen such bare ground on a low-flying plane.It's okay in the rainy season, there will be some grass on the ground, but in the dry season, the exposed ground is basically dark red land.

However, regardless of his stone sympathy for this colleague, he could only say apologetically: "Fred, if you want to introduce our grass. I think I can only say sorry."

Although these pastures are very common, they only grow around the lake in space.He also tried growing some in hilly areas, intending to use them as snail feed.But where it is planted this grass will also grow, but at a much lower rate of growth and new gravity to the herd.Later he had to grow taller sweet elephant grass for snail feed.

He thought it might be that those pastures are very dependent on those lakes.It was a mistake when he opened those lakes.

Besides, if this kind of pasture can be planted elsewhere, it is impossible for him to give it to others.Because this grass is already the core competitiveness of Silent Farm's cattle raising business.If pasture spreads, what else will he use to seize the high-end market?
Fred was not too disappointed, but smiled and said, "Li, you don't need to apologize, I think I can understand." He paused and said. "But I didn't think about introducing seeds, because if I had such high-quality pasture, I would not agree. So I just want to buy some fresh pasture from Silent Farm."

Buying fresh hay?Can pasture still make money?This was the first time Li Sheng had heard of it.

The first time he heard it, he could only say that he was ignorant.In fact, pasture is a commodity in all major pastoral countries.This is true for the United States and China.Many times, however, pasture is simply stored as hay and sold.

It was indeed a novelty for Fred to buy fresh grass now.

And Fred made this purchase request because he saw that the cattle on Silent Farm really grew fast, and they didn't feed any other feed.This also proves that this grass is very beneficial to the growth of cattle.

"You mean to buy hay?"

"Yes. But I need to experiment for a while. If the effect is really good, I will buy a lot in the future. Of course, I can sign a contract, and I won't use the fresh grass you provided for research." pointing expression.

His expression made Li Sheng a little strange, and he asked, "Fred, what do you mean by research?"

Fred said with a smile: "The current biotechnology is very advanced. It is not difficult to extract DNA for research. For example, I heard that some companies are researching rice from Silent Farm." He paused and said. "Of course, I just heard."

After hearing this, Li Sheng didn't think he just said it casually.He looked at Fred and said seriously: "Fred, I am very grateful to you for bringing us this bad news. Otherwise, there may be even worse news waiting for us."

If other people are allowed to research the rice from Silent Farm.Even if he still can't compete with Silent Farm, it will make him sick like eating a dead mouse.

Others steal their own things and then take them out to compete with themselves, and no one can stand it.

However, Fred's next words made him realize that the situation may be more serious than he imagined: "Some countries recognize food patents. For example, the United States. If they research it and apply for a patent. I think Silent Farm will I have suffered a great loss. Regardless of whether the rumors I heard are true or false, I think you should take it seriously."

Li Sheng's face sank.Fred's words let him really understand the situation he might face.Maybe Fred just really heard the rumors.But he is more inclined to get some definite news.

If things really developed to that point, then Silent Farm would become a thief instead.

The truth is so ridiculous, the thing was originally yours.But if you do not have a patent, but in the hands of others, you become an infringement.

Regardless of whether this matter is true or not, Li Sheng has to accept Fred's favor.If it wasn't for his reminder, maybe Silent Farm would really fall into the patent trap.

It is not difficult to deal with others wanting to rob you of your technology.Just pre-register.Those who want to capture the rice technology of Silent Farm will have to conduct research for a period of time, even if they are powerful.But Silent Farm can register directly.As long as it is registered, no one else can take it away.

He said to Fred very sincerely: "Fred, I owe you a favor. In addition, I can promise you that you want to buy pasture."

He calculated in his mind that an adult cow can eat about [-] catties of that kind of pasture a day—this is a bit large amount of food, but the moisture content of fresh pasture is relatively high, which cannot be compared with roughage—while a cow in the fattening period can grow up every day. It weighs about three catties.He is convinced that this grass is a very good fattening feed.

He did a mental calculation and said, "150 reais per ton."

"Your asking price is too expensive. The dry pasture is only 25 reais." Of course Fred wanted to bargain.He did it before he came.One ton of pasture can supply 150 to [-] cattle a day's feed.And these cows can gain anywhere from one to one-and-a-half pounds a day.Calculated, one ton of grass can increase the output value by about [-] reais.According to Li Sheng's price, he really didn't have much money to make.

It can only be said that the algorithms of the two are different.But this is also normal.Of course, Li Sheng calculated with his own most favorable algorithm, while Fred only used the most conservative formula.

Li Sheng thought for a while and said, "The lowest price is 130 reals. And it's just for you personally. The dry matter of the forage in Silent Farm accounts for 35%, and it is very high-quality forage."

"I know that Silent Farm's cattle gain weight very quickly, but the price of beef is indeed divided by meat quality. And the pasture of Silent Farm has not been proven to have a positive effect on beef meat quality."

Li Sheng pondered for a while, and said: "Okay then. We sign a contract at the price of 150 reals per meal. The contract period is three months. You can use the pasture from Silent Farm to fatten up, if the meat quality is not as good as your other I don’t need to pay for the pasture, it can be written in the contract. But you can only buy up to [-] tons of pasture per day during this period. And you have to figure out how to transport it yourself.”

"And after that?"

"If the meat quality can reach or exceed the cattle you used to fatten before, and you plan to continue to buy, we need to sign a new contract, and the price is 150 reais per ton."

Three months later, it will be the dry season, and the Amazon in the dry season will not grow much pasture.Fred will definitely need to buy cattle feed.So his suggestion seemed to put Fred at a disadvantage, but in fact, the risk in the early stage was much smaller for him.

"Good. Deal!" In fact, Fred hoped that the pasture would have a positive effect on the quality of the beef.Because only in that way can the cattle in his pasture be truly competitive internationally, and the price of cattle will be higher.

Fred left Silent Farm contentedly, but Li Sheng thought too simply of the "position" of the farmer before thinking about himself.I thought that all I had to do was grow things, raise things, and sell them.In fact, agriculture has become similar to industry now, and technical barriers have shrouded agriculture, one of the oldest industries in human civilization.

He immediately found Anthony and asked him to register the Silent Rice trademark in Belem as soon as possible.As for other technical applications for rice, he needs to sort out some materials before he can apply.

He hurriedly found Zhang Feng again.He felt that Zhang Feng was the manager of the farm before, so he must know more about these things than him.

Li Sheng was right, Zhang Feng did know a little more about these things.

But Zhang Feng didn't think of this problem before, so he apologized first.She also had lingering fears.He himself knows how good the rice on the farm is.That is at least much better than any Thai basmati rice.He couldn't imagine how much the farm would suffer if the patent was taken away.And that was his job error.

Fortunately, now that I understand it, the farm is already preparing to register a trademark.Remedy should be in time.

He told Li Sheng: "Next, we need to describe the sexual characteristics of our rice in the most detailed way, and then apply for product origin certification. This can also prove that our rice has already been produced."

What he said meant that even if someone else registered the patent first, the pair of Silent Farms would not be unable to grow because of this.Of course the patent does not belong to Silent Farm.

However, Brazil does not recognize the patent of "biological breeding", so there is no way to obtain any patent for this kind of pure natural rice.This made Li Sheng a little worried.Because some countries recognize it.

But there was nothing he could do about it.Who made the rice seeds on the farm almost wild?
"Although this is not safe, because it is difficult to prove that other rice is produced using our rice through genetic modification."

Li Sheng accepted his suggestion, but all kinds of crops on the farm also need to be registered in this way.He intends to do it once and for all, so as not to be troubled by this aspect in the future.

And most of these things need to be done by himself.In addition to the food, Zhang Feng can find someone to collect information, and the commercial crops grown in those hilly areas are still young seedlings, and others have no way of knowing what they will be like when they grow up.Only Li Sheng can enter the space to find mature ones.

Of course, he does not intend to conduct any genetic research to apply for a patent.

He toiled in the space for several days for this.He needs to prepare written materials, and also needs to take some photos.After the whole process came out, Li Sheng asked Anthony to go to Belem again.When Anthony came back, he brought back some receipts, all of which were receipts from relevant departments for accepting the application for certification of origin.As long as there are these receipts, it proves that he has applied for those certifications.

Even if it can't pass, it can prove that these things were grown in Silent Factory before this. Even if other people come up with some patents, Li Sheng is not afraid of going to court.

In order to pass the certification, Li Sheng spent a sum of money.Therefore, the efficiency of the relevant departments was quite fast. After two days, it was confirmed that the farm was actually planting these things.After the certification of the place of origin, the interests of Silent Farm have finally stabilized.

And with the certification of origin, the geographical indications of these crops fall on Silent Farm.This is also one of the benefits.However, this benefit still needs to work to be reflected.

(End of this chapter)