American Ranch

Chapter 31 Building a Large-Scale Farm 【Please recommend, collect】

It was overcast and it was going to rain.

Asol rushed the sheep to the sheep pen ahead of time, and Canbi accompanied Chen Mo to the cattle farm...

Previously, 108 Angus cattle were bought, including more than [-] pregnant cows.In the past few months, the cattle farm has also added new calves...

Angus cattle are an ancient breed of small beef cattle, and they can be ready for slaughter in about 10 months if there is sufficient food.Usually available within 18 months.

Chen Mo went to the cattle farm to have a look, and took some fresh milk home by the way.

In Xiaoxigu, Dasha and Ala were chasing each other outside, and ran over after seeing Chen Mo...

Erha has a confused expression, he hasn't seen him for two days, it seems that he doesn't know him as the master anymore.Ala rushed over happily, circling around Chen Mo, shaking and yelling, startling Ari who was sleeping in the living room...

After raising pets, they no longer felt deserted when they returned home, and fed them one by one. Chen Mo went to the bedroom to read the written test questions for the driving test.

The English test questions are like a bible, and I fell asleep after reading it.

When I woke up, it was raining heavily outside the window, and the rain was getting heavier and heavier, accompanied by thunder.

power cut.

Chen Mo is used to the power supply here, and there will be a power outage in thunderstorm weather.

The heavy rain stopped in the middle of the night, and the next day was sunny again, with red clouds rising early in the sky...

Canlby and his wife Mary were busy catching chickens, and Athol was picking out strong fat sheep and rushing them to the car.

The sky after the heavy rain was exceptionally blue, like a huge emerald, with a few white clouds floating at the end of the sky...

Chen Mo loaded [-] chickens into the car and set off first. He took out his mobile phone to look at it from time to time on the road, and finally got a signal. He put on a bluetooth headset and dialed Hill's number: "Wake up?"

"Just woke up, ready to go to work." Hill was a little sullen.

"You called me yesterday." There was a missed call from Hill on Chen Mo's mobile phone. It was past six o'clock yesterday afternoon. At that time, Chen Mo fell asleep and didn't hear it.After waking up in the middle of the night, there was no signal on the phone.

"Ah."

"I'm going back to the ranch. The signal in the countryside is very poor, and there was another thunderstorm last night."

"Oh... I thought you didn't answer my phone on purpose." Hill puffed his cheeks: "What are you doing?"

"Drive to Helena."

"Driving in Montana is like an extreme sport, there are 'bike gangs' everywhere, you pay attention to safety."

"I use a Bluetooth headset, are you free tonight? Let's go to the movies."

"I'm free. But I have to go out now. See you at night and stay safe."

"Bye-Bye."

"Bye-Bye."

Chen Mo turned on the bluetooth music, playing the 90s classic music stored in the phone...

Helena, the capital of Montana, the county seat of Lewis and Clark County, is located in the intermountain basin of the Rocky Mountains in the west of the state and is the largest commercial and transportation center in Montana.

Ellison's company was near the train station, and Chen Mo asked several people to find the place.

"Hi, Chen, here." Ellison came out to pick up Chen Mo at the door of the company.

"This place is really hard to find." Chen Mo complained.

"It's okay. It's the same when you don't know the way when you come here for the first time. It will be easy to find next time." Ellison shrugged his shoulders, invited Chen Mo into the office, and took out the contract he had prepared early in the morning...it was a one-year contract contract.

Chen Mo could only understand the English contract in general. If traps were deliberately set up in the contract, Chen Mo would not be able to see it. He just looked at it casually, intending to wait for Canlby to come over and make sure that the contract is ok before signing.

Black-bone Chicken: 25 kg, $[-].

Reed Chicken: 27 kg, $[-].

杜泊羊：一级……羊羔，每磅16——19美元。成长阶段，每磅12——16美元。成年羊，每磅9——14美元。

Level 13, mutton is taken from young sheep under [-] months, and must be castrated sheep, unborn ewes, etc.It is required to be muscular, the bones of the whole body are not prominent, the subcutaneous fat is all over the body, there are beautiful oil patterns, the buttocks are full of fat, the oil flowers and lean meat cannot be separated after freezing, and the meat is firm and firm...

杜泊羊：二级……羊羔，每磅12——17美元。成长阶段，每磅7——10美元。成年羊，每磅4.5——8美元。

The selection criteria are still young sheep under 13 months old.The muscles are required to be well developed. Except for the shoulders and the spine of the neck, the bones in other parts are not protruding, and the fat is all over the body...

Must be grain-fed.

There are pictures of fat attachment, etc., as well as more detailed divisions.

Then there is the third grade, which is relatively common mutton. Dorper sheep raised according to the standard in most pastures can reach this grade, and an approximate price range is also given, which is much more cost-effective than selling to slaughterhouses.

The slaughterhouse will only identify whether the mutton meets the specified standard range, regardless of what feed you use.There is special feed for fattening, the price is cheap and the meat is produced quickly.As long as the meat quality is within the edible standard range, it can enter the supermarket...

As for the worst mutton, Ellison's company would not want it.

Chen Mo stroked his chin, looking at the picture of the best-grade mutton, the beautiful oily stripes on it are no different from the PS ones... Chen Mo doubts whether such mutton exists in this world.

His own Dorper sheep belonged to the upper-secondary standard, and Ellison offered a price of $9 per pound, which was about the same meat quality as the Dorper sheep he had slaughtered before...

$9 per pound is the carcass weight, which is a good price for the remaining parts such as the head, tail, limbs, and internal organs after slaughtering the livestock.

After chatting with Ellison for half an hour, Camerby and the others drove over in the F650...

Chen Mo first showed Calby the contract, and signed it after making sure there was no problem...

First there are 85 reed chickens and 15 black-bone chickens.

The food was fed before coming. The total weight of 85 reed chickens was 195.7 kg, and the total weight of 15 black-bone chickens was 26.2 kg.

Ellison didn't care about the farmer's little cleverness, and directly settled the bill after weighing, a total of 5940 US dollars.

The reed chicken and black-bone chicken that Chen Mo bought at the beginning were much higher than the current price.

Then came the slaughter of Dorper sheep...

The adult Dorper sheep belong to the second-grade mutton. Five lambs were sent, but they reached the first-grade quality. Ellison paid US$5 for these five lambs, an average of US$3270 each.

Five five-month-old Dorper sheep sold for $5, an average of $2300 each.

Finally, six six-month-old Dorper sheep sold for $6, an average of $3294 each.

Snow Mountain Ranch will be completely self-sufficient in the future, and there will be a lot of surplus feed left.

The ranch now has three workers, and the monthly salary is 7100 US dollars. Other expenses, such as electricity, fuel, mechanical maintenance, etc., are calculated at a total of 1 US dollars.

The bigger the sheep, the more valuable it is, the important thing is the quality of the meat...

Judging from the current situation, if the lambs can reach the first-class standard, raising lambs is the most cost-effective.

The income of 14800 US dollars is Chen Mo's most impressive income since he bought the Snow Mountain Ranch...

After getting the money in the afternoon, Chen Mo invited Calby and Ashol to Helena's restaurant for a meal, and said: "Ellison still needs a lot of mutton. After you go to the ranch, send all the rams that can be slaughtered to After arriving at the slaughterhouse here... from now on, our ranch will concentrate on raising fat sheep."

"No problem. There are 50 Dorper sheep that can be sold in the pasture. Selling them is a big income. Should we go to other pastures to buy some lambs, ewes, and rams?"

Selling it all should bring in $3...

The price of a one-month-old Dorper sheep here is between US$1 and US$110.

"Buy. Try to choose the smallest lambs, and then the pregnant ewes...and buy a few more breeding sheep. Before bringing them back to the pasture, they should be quarantined and checked for health."

"I know this, don't worry." Camerby took a sip of beer, showing a satisfied expression.

Asol wanted to drive later, so he could only watch Cambi drink with greedy eyes: "Our ranch can only stock 400 sheep, plus 100 head of cattle. If it exceeds the breeding scale, we need to build a farm..."

"How much does it cost to build a feedlot?"

"Look at the size. The pasture has sheep sheds, all of which are occupied by ewes. It is a breeding area. The breeding area is not big, and it is very crowded with 180 ewes now." Asol said the simple facilities of the pasture : "It's okay now, it's summer. In winter, it's covered with ice and snow, and it's very cold... Sheep flocks are very easy to get sick when they are crowded together."

Canlby nodded beside him: "This is a problem. If the number of breeding is small, it should be safe to survive the winter. If the breeding scale is large, it is best to build a large breeding area..."

The breeding area is planned out with venues and breeding sheds, and it is no problem to raise tens of thousands of sheep.

"Jian. It is planned to raise 1500-2000 sheep..." As long as the quality of the mutton produced is not low, this business is very profitable.But you can't raise too much. Now Chen Mo doesn't know how much mutton Ellison can eat.

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