Xu Yin drove for a day and arrived in Queenstown that evening.
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.
The farms and ranches in Queenstown 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, and with my stomach full, I returned to the hotel.
The next morning, I didn’t go out to eat, so I got a portion of seafood porridge from the system warehouse.
Speaking of which, 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 small town like Cooktown surrounded by mountains, either dry goods or frozen products.
Thinking that Queenstown is close to the sea, I can go for a walk after finishing my business.
After a full breakfast, we drove to the ranch.
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 be relatives or friends with them.
As long as she sells her a batch of calves, both male and female, or male calves and calf-bearing 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 remains unchanged.
If you really can't figure it out, spend energy points to buy a booklet and study it, but you won't believe that you can't breed superior calves.
The ranchers were initially reluctant to do the business.
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 south to purchase beef cattle? So can they still make as much money as they do now?
But Xu Yin's high price 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 play it steady.
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 having said that, low-density grazing is true ecological farming.
She either doesn't raise them, or if she wants to raise them, she raises high-quality beef sheep.
But because 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 male 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.
Then find a dairy factory to process it into milk powder and cheese.
The quality of the milk produced by the cows you raise is much better than that bought from outside. If you don’t stock up now, you will wait until later!
After ordering the calf, Xu Yin's trip to the south will be considered complete.
But she wasn't busy going 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 had just received a deposit and his attitude toward Xu Yin had 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 with the 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 grass needs to be replanted every year, and if Mr. Hunter buys it for her, it can 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."
Upon hearing this, Xu Yin expressed that she also wanted to grow 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. The remaining 20 hectares are planned to be planted with grapes and kiwi fruits that require trellising.
Fruits such as apples, cherries, and blueberries that do not need to be put up on a shelf are planted on the grassy slopes of the mountains and lakeside.
She plans to grow spices in 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.
There was no grazing in the pasture, and the farm was not well managed, so ten workers were hired to grow wheat, and machines were used for sowing and harvesting.
There are few manpower, and there is no time to pick up the fallen wheat ears in the wheat field. 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 pay much attention to the work, and they were careless and lazy about the work. The wheat seeds were not carefully screened at all, and they just put a few bags and stored them in the farm warehouse as seeds.
Year after year, it is no wonder that 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.
Therefore, 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 the purchaser and stock up on canned mashed potatoes with different flavors.
Thinking of Grandpa Ken's Chicken Sauce Mashed Potatoes, which was very popular among children in later generations, I felt a little greedy at this moment.
She was already several years old, and after all the small worlds she had traveled through, she might have turned into an old monster. She actually had a greedy mouthful of mashed potatoes from a fried chicken restaurant, which made her laugh and cry.
(End of chapter)
