There is no day off at the Halloween Farm and neither are the students.
So although the farm was busy today, none of them, including the talented singer Yuduo Xiyao, the fat comedian Mirna, Ding Jiaqi, and Qu Xiaoqing, whom Milica cared about, had no time to return to the farm.
Logically speaking, the farm is only 150 kilometers from the city, and it only takes three hours to drive. It is not difficult at all to get back.
This requires different education methods, happy education, playing for fun when you were a child, how can you get into a good university if you can’t add, subtract, multiply, and divide?
This trick wipes out most of the people at the bottom, and at the same time, the children of elite families are learning it all the time.
Of course, it is obvious that the elites did not dare to do anything when designing the system. What Zhang Jing saw from the farm children was that they played hard in elementary school, continued to play in middle school, increased pressure in high school, and were extremely stressed in college.
Adding the effects of money, human nature, social relations, etc., you will see a strange phenomenon, similar to the ancient occupational inheritance system. I am a blacksmith, and my son and grandson are also blacksmiths.
In this case, if I graduated from Harvard, there is a high probability that my son and grandson will also graduate from Harvard.
For example: For a certain champion, the mother is a Princetonian, and the daughter is still a Princetonian. Not surprisingly, the next generation will still be a Princetonian, or a school at the same level.
For example, a music guru graduated from Berkeley Conservatory of Music, and his son can also attend the same conservatory.
Considering that it is difficult to earn credits, only 35% of undergraduate students in private universities can graduate normally, and only 60% of students in public undergraduate universities can graduate normally. Also considering that tuition fees are expensive, several college students, including Ding Jiaqi, really dare not waste their time. They don't even dare to be late for school.
Class attendance, test scores, number of papers, etc. are all linked to credits, and credits are directly linked to graduation certificates.
With a lot of thoughts in his mind and only one second left, Zhang Jing looked at Milika, who was full of thoughts, and said considerately: "Ding Jiaqi can't spare time now, could you please send some beef to No. 1550 tomorrow?" "
Considering that Milica has a history of depression, Zhang Jing did not tease her and looked very serious.
Milica agreed readily.
In fact, it was Zhang Jing who thought too much, and the simple-minded Milika really just missed Ding Jiaqi, because the boss lady usually cared a lot about her.
Zhang Jing didn't know that he was running a train, and felt that it was not enough, and he was thinking about whether to give Milika and Qu Xiaoqing some special gifts.
For example: How about a series of companion products?
"By the way, oss," Irina, the head of video operations, didn't know that Zhang Jing was playing riddles with Milika, "Would you like to invite the film shooting team, brewing team, and rugby team to come to the party?"
"No," Zhang Jing didn't want to make the party so big, nor did he want many people to mix together, "I'll go over and see them now."
After leaving the canteen, Zhang Jing went to the cold storage nearby, put three and a half beef fans into the back of the pickup truck, and then set off due north of the farm.
In the middle of the farm due north, there is a building, which is a newly built winemaking workshop less than half a year old.
There are many buildings, but the scale is not very large.
The semi-underground wine storage kiln is 4,000 square meters, the brewing workshop is 3,000 square meters, the warehouse is 2,000 square meters, as well as dormitories, canteens, cold storage, oil storage, etc. for about 30 people.
The original area of the grape orchard was 400 acres, and was expanded to 200 acres before, bringing the total area to 600 acres. There are three types of wine grapes cultivated in the vineyard.
Vineyard management mainly relies on machinery, including plowing, fertilizing, ditching, pruning, and film mulching. There are as many as eight types of machinery and more than 30 machines.
Because the purchase of agricultural machinery can be deducted in large amounts, which is equivalent to half selling and half giving, Barbie has always been very willing in this regard.
Only picking requires semi-manual work. Every harvest season, during busy periods, additional temporary workers need to be hired. There are only 20 actual insured employees in the brewing workshop, including winemaker Cindy.
Driving on the winding cement road between the many hills on the farm, you start with a large green space and soon enter an orchard.
First, there are 500 acres of citrus and persimmon groves. Driving inside, it feels like entering a forest.
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The fruits have been picked, and many have fallen to the ground. Each one is bright yellow and looks like a broken lantern.
Looking down from the air, Zhang Jing is driving on the winding cement road, as if he is driving in a landscape painting.
After passing the "Lantern Fruit Grove", there is an endless vineyard orchard behind. The scenery here is almost as if you have entered a dead and quiet space. There are many birds flying around looking for food, so you will not feel lonely.
The 300-acre avocado forest is to the west. Zhang Jing did not drive through it this time. He passed a ten-meter-long iron bridge and then a winding mountain road. On the other side of the mountain is the farm's second reservoir.
The reservoir covers an area of about 2 square kilometers. Unsurprisingly, the water level has dropped dramatically, to less than one-fifth of its full level.
Around the reservoir is a wine-making area built in a park, where Barbie and Xu Zehong are also located.
There were two heavy-duty trucks parked in the yard, and employees were loading boxes of avocados into the trucks. It looked very busy.
The fruits will eventually be delivered to Tennessee's capital.
Marsha Black, the defeated congressman in her sixties, owns two warehouse supermarkets in the capital of Tennessee. Zhang Jing spent her gray money to open the supermarkets.
Not only did he sponsor her to open a large supermarket, but he also sold agricultural products including but not limited to fruits, beef, citrus juice, persimmons, red wine and other products to middlemen at prices about 10% lower than the market price. The middleman then resold them to Martha Black.
The middleman is Martha Black's nephew, so he's a glove.
10% should not be underestimated. It is a huge discount for customers, and the other items sold in the supermarket are also good, so Martha Black can earn funds for the election.
"oss," Barbie greeted proactively, "good afternoon."
"Good afternoon," Zhang Jing asked concernedly, "When will you finish your work?"
"Two thousand boxes of avocados, one thousand boxes of freshly squeezed citrus juice, and 500 boxes of barrels of red wine left over from the original rosé winery. After loading these into the truck, we can take a short rest for a night."
Zhang Ding heads his head, not long after picking grapes, a large number of grapes are waiting to be made into wine. In the second half of September, October, November and December, every day will be very busy.
Then again, there is always endless work to do on the farm and no real leisure time.
"Can we break even this year?" Zhang Jing asked Barbie standing at the front of the truck.
"Balance of expenditures" literally means wages, seeds, fertilizers, agricultural machinery and equipment maintenance, land tax, property tax, fire insurance, water, electricity, etc.
Barbie affirmed without thinking, "Okay."
"What's the reason?" Zhang Jing occasionally looks at the statements handed over by Barbie. They all cost money. Most of the details are payment items, and there is almost no income.
"The secondary reason is that beef prices have increased by about 12% this year, but our feeding costs have not increased," Barbie said. "The main reason is that we short-sold the wine stocks of the previous rosé winery and earned about 820,000 yuan."
Not caring about the red wine in stock, Zhang Jing asked the farm manager, "What is the price of beef now?"
"The average price is 1,500 meters per head, and the cost price is about 800 meters per head," Barbie said. "By the end of December, about 380 heads will be sold throughout the year."
"The average net profit of a beef cow on the market is about 200 yuan. The profit of raising cattle on the farm is even higher. The main reason is ecological breeding. Half the time, it is free-range. It is equivalent to the organic food in Whole Foods Market."
After all, he is a farmer. Zhang Jing knows that the Angus beef cattle raised on the farm are of a good breed. The important thing is that they are raised half of the time. They also use machines to massage the cattle. They have a fairly good snowflake rate, so they can be sold at a high price.
In normal cattle raising, in order to pursue efficiency and output, more farms use cattle in confinement. The activity space of a cow is only about 7 square meters. From birth to death, the life of a cow is arranged and managed by mechanized processes.
Here’s the problem. Even if Kanfen Farm’s net profit from raising cattle is 700 yuan per head, and 380 cattle are slaughtered a year, the gross profit will only be 266,000 yuan.
If you want to increase your income from raising cattle, you can only increase the number of beef cattle, but because of limited water resources, the government does not allow it.
"Cut down the cattle," Zhang Jingkuai
Make a decision quickly, "Save the water, expand the vineyard planting area, and focus on wine making in the future."
Because of the Leopard brand beer and the video account, Zhang Jing believes that selling wine will not be difficult. When Katie and Leya grow up, ask them to endorse it. It won’t be too popular by then. It is possible to sell more than one billion yuan a year.
"Cut it down?" Barbie explained, "Raising cows can maintain ecological balance. Weeds grow too fast. Cow dung is a good natural fertilizer."
"Then keep a hundred head for free range, and add some goats and pigs, or introduce some earthworms?" Zhang Jing didn't understand agriculture, so he could only offer his opinion, "You discuss this matter with Carter, I can't see the money, so I don’t want to do it.”
