Chapter 982 The school sweetheart’s first love who took a check and went abroad (20)

 Xu Yin drove for a day and arrived in Queenstown in the evening of the same day.

In Queenstown in winter, the streets were relatively deserted. Xu Yin found a hotel facing the street. After settling in, she took a hot bath comfortably and changed into more mature clothes, deliberately dressing up like a capable strong woman. , and then went out to inquire about nearby pastures.

 Queenstown’s farms and pastures are in the countryside, still quite a ways away from the town.

She found a steaming beef restaurant, ordered a set of pepper beef soup and oatmeal bread, and chatted with the owner while eating.

During the chat, I found out the addresses of one or two of the largest ranches. With my stomach full, I returned to the hotel.

　　The next morning I didn’t go out to eat. I got a portion of seafood porridge from the system warehouse.

 Speaking of it, this is obviously an island, but because transportation is not as convenient as in later generations, it is not easy to buy fresh seafood in a mountainous town like Cooktown, either dry goods or frozen products.

 I thought that Queenstown is close to the sea, so I could go for a walk after finishing my business.

 Having a full breakfast, I drove to the pasture in the car.

The ranchers here are a bit arrogant. Perhaps because they rely on Angus cattle, they are much richer than ranchers in other areas, and are much more arrogant than the residents of Cook Town.

Xu Yin didn't mind their attitude, as long as they were willing to sell her the calf, but she didn't intend to become relatives or friends with them.

As long as she sells her a batch of calves, both male and female, or male calves and calf-calf cows, she doesn’t need to ask them to buy them again in the future.

She has never raised cows with her own hands, how can she not raise pigs with her own hands? In the 1960s, she was a professional pig farmer who was rated as a national model worker!

 Breeding technology is ever-changing and remains the same.

If you really can’t figure it out, spend some energy points to buy a booklet and study it, but you won’t believe that you can’t breed superior calves.

 These ranchers were not very happy about the business at first.

These are Angus cattle, not ordinary beef cattle. Since they were introduced from Scotland, they have been bred in the south and sold to ranchers in the central part. What will happen if the central part of the country does not ask the southern part of the country to purchase beef cattle? So can they still make as much money as they do now?

 But the high price of Xu Yin's car made them somewhat tempted.

Their wives said: "It is still unknown whether the central part can raise Angus cattle well. What are you afraid of? Make a profit now. When the central part cannot raise Angus cattle next year, they will not come to our south. purchase?"

As soon as the rancher heard that it made sense, he raised his arrogant chin and made the deal with Xu Yin.

 Xu Yin ordered fifty calves from these two large ranches respectively, for a total of one hundred calves.

 In the first year, she plans to work steadily.

 It was almost enough to raise 300 goats and 100 beef cattle. She was afraid she wouldn't be able to manage any more.

But then again, low-density grazing is the real ecological farming.

 Either she doesn’t raise them, or if she wants to raise them, she raises high-quality beef and sheep.

Since the rancher refused to sell her calves with calves, twenty of the hundred calves were female calves born in the autumn, which were older than the male calves. After all, some of the bull calves she ordered were still in the cow's belly.

 Eighty bull calves are raised in spring and ready for slaughter in winter. But she doesn't plan to sell them all. She also wants to keep a few to breed with the cows. The twenty cow calves are reserved for breeding.

Of course, you can also harvest milk during the calving period.

It is said that the milk production of Angus cattle is quite high, and they can produce 700 to 800 kilograms of milk during the lactation period.

 At that time, find a dairy factory to process it into milk powder and cheese. The quality of the milk produced by my own cows is much better than that bought from outside. If I don’t stock up on it now, I won’t wait until later!

 After booking the calf, Xu Yin’s trip to the south will be considered complete.

 But she was not in a hurry to go back. She came here all the time. She wanted to see what better grass seeds and oat seeds were available in the south. If the price was right, she could start preparing them. After all, they would be planted in spring.

The rancher just received a deposit and his attitude toward Xu Yin has improved a lot.

Hearing that she wanted to buy some pasture seeds, he introduced her to the alfalfa, rye and sweet elephant grass grown on his pasture.

“These are the favorite foods of Angus cattle. If you want, I can buy some for you and bring them over when I send you calves in the spring.”

He buys a lot at one time, and the price can be negotiated even lower. Not only does he not suffer a loss by helping him purchase, he also makes a profit.

Xu Yin asked about the prices of these types of forage and felt that they were acceptable, so she agreed: "Okay."

The pasture must be replanted every year. If Mr. Hunter buys it for her, it will be saved for next year.

 Afterwards, she asked the rancher where she bought the crop seeds grown on the farms in Queenstown.

“Which ones do you want to buy? I know a farmer who grows wheat, oats and potatoes.”

When Xu Yin heard this, she expressed that she also wanted to plant these.

Although her farm has 50 hectares, she does not plan to use it all to grow crops. 10 hectares of wheat, oats, and potatoes are enough, and the remaining 20 hectares are planned to grow grapes and kiwi fruits that require trellising.

Apples, cherries, blueberries and other fruits that do not need to be put up on a shelf should be planted on the grassy slopes of the mountains and lakeside.

She plans to grow spices on the few acres of land surrounding the farm warehouse. When a mutton restaurant opens in the town, the dry ingredient powder she prepares will need a continuous supply.

Mrs. Haiqiong has not taken care of the farm and pasture much in the past three years. Firstly, it is due to health reasons, and secondly, she is really not in the mood.

 The pastures were not grazed, and the farm was not well managed, so we hired ten workers to plant wheat, and machines were used for sowing and harvesting.

There are few manpower and there is no time to pick up the fallen ears of wheat in the wheat fields. As a result, wild wheat and wheat sown in spring grow together, and the quality of the final wheat harvest is uneven.

Those workers probably saw that Mrs. Haiqiong didn't care much about her work, and she was careless and lazy about the work. The wheat that was saved was not carefully screened at all, and they just put a few bags and stored it in the farm warehouse as seed.

It’s no wonder that year after year, the wheat harvest produced is good.

When Xu Yin went to take over the farm, she discovered this problem and fired those workers directly. She planned to recruit a group of workers in the spring and personally provide them with pre-job training.

She personally selects the wheat seeds in the warehouse and selects the seeds with the fullest grains. The rest are shelled and ground into flour, which is reserved for making dumplings and noodles.

 So, if you only plant 10 hectares, it is enough not to buy wheat seeds for the time being, but you need to buy oats and potatoes.

New Zealand potatoes are very large and have smooth skin. After being collected by buyers, they are basically sold to factories for processing into mashed potatoes. Large potatoes have a lot of water and are easy to stew. They taste great when made into mashed potatoes.

 Xu Yin plans to contact a reliable processing factory through a purchaser and stock up on canned mashed potatoes with different flavors.

 Thinking of Grandpa Ken’s chicken mashed potatoes, which was very popular among children in later generations, I felt a little greedy at this moment.

She is several years old, and after all the small worlds she has traveled through, she may have become an old monster. She actually wants to take a bite of mashed potatoes from a fried chicken restaurant, which makes her laugh and cry.

 (End of this chapter)