silent farm

Chapter 108 The Market Stepping Stone Named Fernando (Bao Er, please recommend for collection)

That night, Li Sheng left three guests to stay overnight in the villa. The next day, Fred left after breakfast.Li Sheng took Fernando and Ali to visit the farm.

Of course, there is no need to visit the cultivated land and pastures.After a random turn around, they arrived at the golf course.

这是一个不标准的高尔夫球场。标准高尔夫球场是十八洞，而李晟建的这个却有21洞。而且这个高尔夫球场的球道有不少都比标准长。四个短球道也有260米到300米，而十个中球道则有四百到500米。七个长球道五百到680米。

There is no one maintaining it at all, and it is not suitable for golfing.In fact, Li Sheng was raising grass.Whether it is fairways or greens, the grass planted is short grass, which can become a real golf course as long as it is trimmed.It's just a bit substandard.

Because of the problem of the venue, they just drove an all-terrain vehicle around it.After all, the best man-made landscape in Silent Farm is here.Although it is not a famous design, the pool, waterway and sandpit make it quite unique.

Ali felt a little interesting about Li Sheng's design.Sitting on the back seat, he smiled and said, "Li, I think your course can apply for the Guinness World Record."

Li Sheng's private golf course may be the world's largest golf course with the largest number of holes.Of course, the word "standard" is missing in the prefix.Because the length of fairways and the number of holes in his course are not standard.

Li Sheng replied with a smile: "I don't have that idea. In fact, this golf course is designed for me personally. You know, I have relatively strong arms. But ordinary people can move the tee forward to reach the standard fairway if they want a big ball. distance.” As for the number of standard holes, if you really want to play regular, can you not play the last three holes?

"The design of this course is good. I really want to take a few shots." Fernando sighed a little, not sure if it was true or not.After all, the stadium is still raising grass.Not yet ready for use.

But they weren't here to play golf either.

Fernando didn't have much feeling for the land that originally belonged to his family but now belonged to Li Sheng.Before the land still belonged to his family, he rarely came here.He is only very interested in the things produced on this farm now.

He is still very optimistic about what Li Sheng introduced to him before.The rice and fried rice that he had eaten last night proved that the taste of the rice here was indeed the best he had ever tasted.The dark golden ribbon in the middle of the rice brings some visual effect to this rice.Even Ali, an Arab who doesn't eat rice often, praised this kind of rice.

Agriculture is of course inferior to industry.But if it is aimed at the market above the middle class, the profit may not be lower than that of industrial products.Moreover, the competitive advantage of high-end agricultural products is more stable than that of industrial products.For example, Bordeaux wines have dominated the world wine market for many years.

Whether it is a brand-name car or an airplane, it is constantly being attacked by competitors.

Fernando and Li Sheng mainly talked about cattle.Because the sales volume of beef in Europe is very large, and the market is relatively open, and the high-end market is also relatively large.

Fernando's idea is that he builds a slaughterhouse in a city near the farm, and the cattle from Silent Farm will be supplied to this slaughterhouse.The two parties share according to the market price.

His split method is 3:7, [-]% for the Silent Farm, and [-]% for the Slaughterhouse.

Of course, Li Sheng disagreed with this ratio.Although the sales channel is very important.But beef quality is the key.

"Fifty-fifty." Li Sheng firmly believed that the beef from Tranquility Farm could fetch a good price. "The channel can be opened as long as you are willing to work hard, but the beef is only available in Silent Farm." And this share is after the tariff is removed, and he does not take much advantage.

Fernando watched Li Sheng clinging to the [-]-[-] split.He knows that if the operation is good, there is still money to be made at this price.But this profit does not seem reasonable to him.In the agricultural industry chain, circulation is the most profitable part. He can send beef to Europe, but he also has to give up part of the benefits to lower-level distributors.

"If it's [-]-[-], I won't make any money at all." Fernando finally shook his head. "Unless it is based on wholesale prices. Otherwise, the sub-distributors will suck up all the profits from my part."

Li Sheng turned the steering wheel and said jokingly, "Of course it is calculated at the stipulated distribution price, otherwise you thought it was the retail price?"

Fernando also laughed: "Deal! But how many cattle can you provide every year?"

"For the time being, we can provide about 60 head a year, and in the future we can provide [-] head a year." The reason for the large difference in this figure is that the farm now needs to save the number of cattle.So there will not be too many cattle that can be sold.If he is a foreign calf, he can go to the market in about one and a half years, but he prefers to let the cattle breed by himself.It will take more than two years for the calf born to be slaughtered.And there are some cows he'd rather sell to another farm during calf than buy for slaughter.Because of the small weight of heifers, the price of beef cattle is not as high as that of breeding cattle.

Fernando nodded, but he had already started planning in his heart.Silent Farm's cattle will now be ready for slaughter in two months.And it will take at least a year for him to build a new slaughterhouse.So he can only buy a slaughterhouse.

However, Li Sheng said: "I also value the market in China, so I hope to give some of it to my agent in China."

"Then how much do you plan to share?"

"Fifteen thousand heads is enough to start with. Maybe not enough. But it will keep increasing. So I want to give half the maximum share. If they can't sell this share, you can deal with it."

Although Chen Bo has some ideas, he still doesn't have enough background.

So he said again: "East Asia and South Asia are his markets, and the North American market is free to compete. What do you think?"

Without thinking, Fernando said, "No problem. Now we can talk about other things. Like those snails and rice."

Ali, who was sitting in the back, suddenly said, "I think I need some beef, too."

Fernando looked back at him and said with a smile, "Isn't the oil enough for you?"

Ali smiled and said: "I don't plan to sell beef, but I think it is necessary to keep some at home."

Fernando seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, and said, "Maybe you can help us promote in the Middle East." Although the population of the Middle East is small, there are many local tyrants.Maybe they like to eat mutton or camel meat, but they will not refuse beef.In particular, the meat quality is super good, and it is pure natural beef.Maybe somewhere, the price will be more expensive.

Ali did not refuse, and said to Li Sheng: "I think the beef from Silent Farm will be very popular in the Middle East."

When he said this, Fernando didn't know how to respond.

Not only beef, but also many other things, Fernando is also very interested.He stayed at Silent Farm for four days, and Li Sheng made him try everything he could eat.Including fragrant pigs and big pigs.

The object of cooperation between him and Li Sheng has also expanded from the previous beef to chicken, pig, snail, rice, flour, and various mushrooms.He is also interested in Brazil nuts, coffee and cocoa, which have not yet been harvested.But it's too early to talk about that right now.

He is now focusing on the caviar that Li Sheng was talking about.

A sturgeon, a fish he had never heard of.But Li Sheng says they produce very good roe.

Caviar is a high-end luxury food with a very petty bourgeois sentiment.That thing is expensive even if it is a brand that is not well-known.

The so-called caviar on the market now mainly comes from farmed sturgeon, and even other migratory fish, such as salmon.In the eyes of so-called gourmets, caviar in the true sense is only produced by three species of sturgeon in the Caspian Sea.

And those wild sturgeon populations have made it difficult for fishermen to catch them.The world's most famous caviar comes from Russia and Iran.As for where is the best, it takes a gourmet with an emperor's tongue to tell the difference.

Li Sheng is just a foodie, not a gourmet, so he can't tell which caviar is good or bad.But as long as this thing can generate income, he intends to get it out.Anyway, it doesn't require him to spend manpower and resources to produce it.

The beluga sturgeon of Silent Farm are kept in those small lakes.The breeding density is not high, but it is still very high relative to the density in the natural environment.It’s just that even if this kind of fish can be bred on the farm, it needs to be bred for at least 20 years to be considered sexually mature, and the number of fish eggs at that time is small, and the quality cannot be guaranteed.To get the best caviar, Li Sheng estimated that the fish should be over 40 years old.

In other words, if the farm wants to raise this thing by itself, it will take 40 years to grow it.Li Sheng didn't intend to do that stupid thing.He took out some that were over forty years old, and some that were over twenty years old.If these small lakes on the farm can reproduce, the farm will be able to produce these fishes independently in 20 years.Of course, that is the most optimistic estimate.And he still has a lot to do.For example, catch more fish of this kind from space and release them.The premise is that the caviar of this fish can be sold at a good price.

Li Sheng and Fernando are going to catch this kind of fish now.There are no fishermen on the farm, so it is really difficult to catch fish.But Li Sheng has a unique way of fishing.

The black-faced god stayed near the farm all the time.For several days, it has been left on the farm to digest food caught outside the farm.When Li Sheng chanted to the black-faced God in Chinese, Fernando and Ali stood two meters away and watched.

They were already surprised that Li Sheng could tame the giant crocodile, but now Li Sheng wanted the crocodile to help him catch fish.When Li Sheng told them, they thought it was a bit wild.

But now after seeing Li Sheng "talking" with the crocodile for a while, the black-faced god crawled towards the lake.This made them both feel incredible.

Ali glanced at the giant crocodile that quietly slipped down the water, stared into Li Sheng's eyes and said, "Li, what you just recited was a spell, right?"

Li Sheng laughed and said, "I'll tell you a secret, I'm actually a druid." He said with a smile. "Let's get on board too."

There is a seven or eight meter long boat with a motor by the lake.There was already a person on the boat, an employee of the farm, who was responsible for sailing the boat, and he was only temporarily transferred here today.

After the three of them boarded the boat, Fernando found that there was nothing on board, except for a bow in Li Sheng's hand.

He sat across from Li Sheng and said, "You are going to shoot fish."

Li Sheng raised the folding bow in his hand and said, "I studied the method of making caviar two days ago. It is said that the quality of caviar can be guaranteed only if the fish dies peacefully and quickly."

He shrugged and continued, "How to calm a fish, I don't know. But I know how to make it die fast."

(End of this chapter)