Unexpectedly, Sean negotiated a big deal with a food factory - he got a three-year supply and sales contract of 9,000 tons. And an additional clause was included in the contract: after three years, as long as the market purchase price is not higher than the market purchase price and the quality and quantity are maintained, Cook Town Farm will have priority in supply.
what does that mean?
You don’t have to change careers to be marketable!
So does he want to change careers?
The farms in other towns mainly know what the mayor is thinking at the moment, and probably want to put a sack on him collectively.
Others are struggling because the farm is in recession and whether to close down and change careers. He is struggling because both are selling well.
Xu Yin asked the mayor to think about it. Anyway, it was still early and there was still time to make a decision before spring.
She rushed back to the agricultural product warehouse on her farm. When she opened the warehouse, she put out 300 kilograms of apples collected in the system warehouse, which could be enough to brew about 200 kilograms of apple cider vinegar. She asked the workers to move the apples to the truck, and she took them to the mayor's house in one trip.
After finishing all this, several beef cattle purchasers who had made appointments earlier came to the door as scheduled.
There were too many local lambs to sell at a high price, so Xu Yin had no intention of selling them.
The roasted whole lamb of "Huawei Pavilion" attracts tourists even in autumn and winter, not to mention the peak tourist season of summer. Instead of selling it to buyers at a low price, it is better to leave it to Huawei Pavilion.
However, the purchase price of Angus beef cattle has always been high, and the export price is very gratifying.
There are currently no ranches in the North Island to breed this type of beef cattle. In previous years, we ordered them from pastures in the south. This year, I heard that some people are raising them in Cook Town. I came over to take a look and found that they were quite well-raised. They were fat and strong. It was very nutritious and healthy, and he immediately expressed how many he wanted.
Xu Yin kept the breeding cows and calves, picked a few more for herself to eat slowly, and sold the rest at a good price.
Seeing that the book balance jumped up, Xu Yin breathed a sigh of relief. She finally had some savings, otherwise she would always worry that such a large farm and ranch would fall into her hands.
The three families, Hunter, the mayor, and Old William, slaughtered a cow and shared it among several families. Xu Yin sold the rest of the beef at a high price.
Hunter and William Sr. decided to make a big move next year to raise Angus beef cattle.
After thinking about it again and again, the mayor decided not to change careers.
He learned that ranchers from surrounding towns wanted to raise Angus beef cattle next year after seeing Sean's success in raising them.
With more people to feed, the purchase price may not remain so high in the coming year. It is better to continue in your old business. At least the purchase price of grain has been written into the contract. Even if it fluctuates, it will be to your benefit - it will only increase. fall.
Several other ranchers have indeed decided to raise Angus beef cattle next year, and for this reason they also came to ask Sean to learn how to raise them.
It would be enough for them to regret not raising them this year.
If they had believed in Sean and raised them with her, they would have been able to eat Angus beef cattle this year and sell a few of them to make money.
Also here are some farmers who want to change careers. Starting next year, they plan to allocate half of their fields to grow pasture and raise cattle and sheep.
The mayor pulled over several farmers in the town and chatted with them.
The eyes of these people became brighter as they listened, and they all looked at Xu Yin: "Is it true, Sean? The food factory has signed a contract with us again? Starting next year, it will need to supply 9,000 tons of grain for three consecutive years?"
Xu Yin smiled and nodded.
"Then why do I want to change my career? Haha! I won't change my job anymore! I still like to run the farm."
"Yeah, I'm used to it, but I'm really unsure about my sudden change of career. This is great now!"
Everyone chatted away, and their spirits were high as they talked, and the depression they had felt when they arrived was gone.
The farmers in other towns were jealous, but there was meat in Cooktown, so could they also drink the broth?
"It's 3,000 tons a year. All the farms in your town combined can't produce this much grain, right? If it's not enough, we can provide it."
"What's the rush? If it's not enough, I'll ask you to buy it." The mayor said with a smile.
As a result, these people changed their minds. They originally planned to switch to raising beef cattle, but now they decided to keep half of the farm to continue growing crops and half to grow pasture to raise Angus beef cattle.
Everyone counted the number of calves, and originally wanted to select two representatives from them to go to the southern pasture to order calves, but Xu Yin took the initiative to take on this task.
She also wanted to order it herself. Although all her twenty cows were pregnant with calves, some of them had already given birth to calves early in pregnancy and became pregnant again.
Even so, there will only be about 30 calves by the beginning of spring, so she has to order another 180 calves.
But before heading south, she first visited a dairy processing plant in Christchurch.
Since the cow entered the lactation period, she contacted a dairy factory with average profitability, one production line that was not in operation, but good environmental sanitation management in the factory area, and signed a processing agreement. She paid for the processing fee and errand fees. Send someone to pick up the milk and help her process it into milk powder and milk tablets.
There is not just one dairy factory in Christchurch, but several, and competition with each other is fierce.
This factory is not large in scale and is not favored by large customers, so the efficiency is not very good. The factory director is worried about not getting new business. He can make some money by processing for others, so why not do it.
Xu Yin's approach opened up new ideas to the factory director: That's right! They can help ranchers process milk powder!
Those large-scale dairy factories don't bother to take on this small business, but their factories don't have much business to begin with, so it's good to earn some processing fees!
So when they sent salesmen to various places to promote business, they launched a new business of processing milk powder on behalf of ranchers.
Not to mention, I actually got a few orders.
No, since autumn this year, several production lines have not been idle.
Xu Yin went to pick up the goods this time. The previously processed milk powder and milk tablets were all packed and boxed.
She currently has no plans to sell these milk powders, so unlike other businesses, she has to customize the outer packaging.
If you stock up too much, it's not too late to consider selling it. Anyway, it won't spoil in the system warehouse.
The same goes for milk tablets, which are all packaged in original colors. The milk tablets she customized are highly concentrated, and eating one is equivalent to drinking a glass of milk. Thirty pieces per plate, enough for one month.
After receiving the goods, while closing the door of the large truck, he put all the milk powder and milk tablets packed in cartons into the system warehouse.
After that, she went all the way south to Queenstown to order calves.
It's a pity that the two ranches that bought calves from last year are not willing to sell calves to her this year. I guess I have heard from the purchasers that the central ranches can also raise Angus beef cattle, and I am worried that it will affect their southern ranches. Business.
They were unwilling to sell, and Xu Yin didn't force it. There were more than just these two ranches in the south.
She drove the large truck and continued south. Angus beef cattle were basically raised in the southern pastures.
There were more than a dozen calves in large pastures and three to five calves in small and medium-sized pastures. Adding them up, she finally made up the purchase amount given to her by the mayor.
(End of chapter)
