Chapter 1775

After eight o'clock, the sun began to scorch people.

Tang Xiaodong guarded the field, and now touched the earliest batch of corn stalks, and went to see the corn stalks peeled by the large group of temporary workers—

Can't be exposed to the sun anymore.

If exposed to the sun any longer, the moisture in the corn stalks and leaves won't be enough, and it won't be possible to make high-quality silage.

"Come, come, come, load all these on the truck, send them to the river beach first!"

The security guards temporarily requisitioned hurriedly drove the tricycle over, and some temporary workers piled these green and prickly corn stalks onto the truck pile by pile, while muttering:

This family is big and rich, it's amazing, raising some cows and sheep, even corn stalks have to be fed.

The security guards didn't care what they thought, and now the truck twisted, and with a rumble, it went to the river beach.

The four employees there were also sweating profusely.

In the room that was left empty, a crusher was spitting out debris with a puff, clusters of corn stalks were stuffed in, and soon connected.

When the debris piled up like flying flowers on the opposite side, Tie Lian and Old Chen would pack them up and send them directly to the fermentation pond.

There, Chen Chi, who had the most strength, was responsible for mixing materials, pressing piles, processing...

But, watching another pile of corn stalks being sent over, Chen Xi wiped the sweat from his forehead:

"Tell the boss, this pile can't hold it."

They had repaired a silage fermentation pond last year, but the whole river beach, the section with high terrain and suitable drainage was just that one piece, and the fermentation pond was only repaired one.

Last year, they started planting forage grass in the second half of the year, so the silage pond was quite suitable. Even if there were more for a while, holding a roll of stretch film to do bag-compressed silage separately could also make up for it.

But, not this year!

The forage grass on the river beach had already taken root last winter, and when the gentle, soft, and moist spring breeze blew, it was simply like wild grass, clusters and clusters couldn't be eaten.

Therefore, don't look at it being only July, the silage pond was actually 70% full.

Now adding these corn stalks, it was really compressed and compressed, and then it wouldn't work.

The security guard who delivered the goods was also worried: "Didn't you ask us to help use stretch film to pack last year? Can't the rest be bagged?"

Chen Xi shook his head: "That film breaks slightly, and it's easy to fail. And, a small amount can be used, but a large amount of all using that film to wrap, it's not stable."

After all, they aren't professionals in this, so they can't guarantee the quality.

If it fails, some with obvious rot smell can't be eaten, and it's heartbreaking to waste it.

Those that didn't fail but didn't succeed were a bit too sour, and the cows and sheep weren't very willing to eat them.

And here, from December to March of spring, there is no fresh forage grass to eat for about four months, all relying on grass feed—the taste is not good, and they feel heartbroken when facing the cows and sheep every day.

Chen Xi explained: "In January and February, lambs are born the most. In February and March, calves are many. You say if they eat poorly, how pitiful it is."

Don't look at him killing pigs and slaughtering cattle every day, white knife in, red knife out, in fact, because he is with livestock every day, his heart has become soft instead.

If you raise them, raise them well.

Therefore, he was very worried that these grass feeds wouldn't work.

The security guard wiped his sweat: "Then okay, I'll tell the boss."

Song Tan soon knew about this.

Making silage is very simple, not so detailed, just find a shed, the machine makes a mess, and then plastic bags are wrapped and pressed to make it.

But they can't.

Their silage has to add lactic acid bacteria, salt, and a small amount of urea, to improve fermentation stability, and to improve palatability and protein content...

In short, the livestock at home really haven't been treated poorly at all. In winter, pigs, cows, and sheep giving birth have special maternity wards.

Like Big Pearl giving birth to a child, carrying a basket of fruits and vegetables to reward, has become the norm.

Don't say Chen Xi isn't willing to perfunctory, Song Tan isn't willing either.

But she had arrangements long ago, and now she called: "Master Wang, when will your truck arrive?"

The man on the opposite side spoke loudly with his local accent: "Fast, fast! Another ten minutes or so!"

After hanging up the phone, Song Tan said again: "Wait a minute, pull the corn stalks to the front of the factory with a tricycle, I called a small truck, and then pull them to the feed factory in the suburbs together."

Their local animal husbandry isn't very developed.

After all, in the hilly area, whether raising sheep or grazing cows, the difficulty of taking care of them is relatively large, and she also spent a lot of effort to find a small livestock farm in the county in the flat area around the city.

To save breeding costs, the livestock farm has a small silage feed factory.

Inside, there are more efficient and professional crushers, as well as specialized wrapping and pressing equipment.

Including adding lactic acid bacteria, mixing, etc., are all done by machines, saving effort and higher efficiency.

And after these feeds are wrapped and pressed there, the volume will be much smaller than what they pack themselves, and then bringing them back to put into the cellar, spending a little money is indeed quite labor-saving.

It's just that moving and lifting in this hot weather, the labor cost is actually not small.

But, now grabbing time, these are indispensable.

And in the suburbs, Fengshou Feed Processing Factory.

The boss took the call with a cigarette in his mouth, and now responded to the business with a stack of sounds, turning to mobilize the relatives and employees in the factory.

"Come, come, come, there is business later, let's clean up this place."

It is a fully enclosed factory, actually not dirty, but summer is the peak period for silage feed production, and they have just collected more than ten mu of green wheat from elsewhere, and there are some scattered debris on the ground now.

Hearing the boss's order, someone hurriedly took a broom and swept it clean.

Someone even turned the machine around, while cleaning up, while muttering:

"How big is this business?"

The boss pondered for a while: "Said they also have a crusher at home, can handle a part. About 8 mu of corn stalks will be sent over."

"But people also said, temporarily just these eight mu, after finishing, there is forage grass to be sent over, this time there will be over a hundred tons."

If the cooperation is good, there will be more later.

This is no way.

Continuous rain has an impact on large agricultural households in all aspects.

For example, making silage feed has restrictions on the moisture of crops.

If it rains in the rainy season and there is no large place and labor to spread and dry the harvested crops, those that have been rained on to make silage feed are very likely to rot and stink.

Therefore, taking advantage of the many people today, and the machine starting to crush quickly, just harvest a batch first.

In this way, there was this cooperation between Song Tan and the feed factory boss.

The feed factory employees chatted:

"Oh, that's quite a lot!"

If only counting 8 mu, at most there are 20 tons of corn stalks, made into silage feed, there can be seventeen or eighteen tons.

Seventeen or eighteen tons sounds like a lot, but in total it's only thirty or forty thousand catties.

A cow has to eat thirty or forty catties a day, and a sheep has to eat five or six catties.

Counting it all up, 8 mu is only enough for 10 cows to eat through a winter, maybe have to eat sparingly.

But if there are still over a hundred tons of forage grass, and the follow-up is a long-term business, then it proves that the scale of this breeding is not small.

—It's not small locally.

It's just... who else around here has opened a livestock farm?

Otherwise, why do they need so much feed?

The boss was also puzzled.

The so-called peers are enemies, his livestock business is doing okay, but it's not necessarily whether it's an enemy.

But if it's really a peer, can everyone communicate and discuss when the price of cattle and sheep fluctuates?

The boss kept this matter in mind.

And here, Song Tan, who had contacted the business, thought about it and called Wu Lei:

"I looked at the weather forecast, this rain might last for a while, if it keeps raining, I guess I won't be able to harvest any decent forage grass all summer."

"Your family raised more than a dozen more cows this year, do you want to buy some feed in advance? Otherwise, if it rains, my demand for feed here is large, and the price might go up."

The forage grass on the river beach is like crazy, growing batch after batch, Song Tan said this time she can harvest over a hundred tons, that's really this time.

For example, elephant grass, sweet elephant grass, can be harvested every twenty or thirty days in summer, and one mu can harvest more than a ton per batch.

Ryegrass doesn't perform well in summer, but it can also harvest more than 1 ton at a time in autumn and winter.

The river beach has a large piece of forage grass planted in a continuous patch.

If it weren't for this, how could the cows and sheep eat while their own fermentation pond is full?

But storing so much at home, the place is really tight, so I just asked Wu Lei if he wanted it.

Actually, Song Tan's forage grass is currently only sold to Wu Lei, and there is no such thing as whether the price goes up or not according to the market.

But the relative affection is that Song Tan can provide forage grass to him alone, and the price can also be calculated cheaply.

But doing business also has the rules of doing business.

If it really rains for months, and her cousin has no awareness of resisting natural disasters, and still expects to buy the best forage grass at an excellent price...

That wouldn't be appropriate.

Therefore, Song Tan gave him the choice in advance.

And Wu Lei was also stunned.

His head wasn't very clear, but after raising cattle for many days, he had also grown a bit, and now he honestly said:

"Then I'll think about it, and tell you later."

This thinking about it is consulting his good brother Zhang Chen.

That's right.

After many collaborations and contacts, the current good brother is the one with the most foresight, the most sincere speech, and the most caring for him among all his contacts.

Wu Lei's trust in him was truly unprecedented.

He told Zhang Chen about this, and the other party was playing cards, took a gap to come out, and listened to him finish the original story seriously.

"That, you also know, my family runs a chain supermarket, I don't know much about the cattle raising you mentioned—I'm just asking, this forage grass of yours, do you have to buy it from your cousin? Can others do it?"

Wu Lei honestly revealed the business secret: "My cousin's things are delicious! You have tasted them too."

"Her forage grass is also particularly good, the cows love to eat it, and the meat is fragrant after eating. Others don't have this, and the cows are very ordinary after eating."

Zhang Chen paused and didn't speak for a long time.

After a while, he turned to a quieter private room and asked again:

"Then if it really rains, can your cows not eat what grows in the field? Aren't they eating what grows in the field every day now?"

"No, no." Wu Lei shook his head repeatedly holding the phone, regardless of whether the other party could see it.

"Grass with water can't be fed to cows and sheep. If you want to eat it, it must be dried. Now grazing cows don't dare to let them touch the dew, if they eat too much, they are prone to bloating."

Cows are rumen, bloating is easy to suffocate. Or they eat bad intestines and stomach and have diarrhea, and have to be treated.

"If it really rains, the grass cut back still has to be spread and dried."

Zhang Chen thought thoughtfully, nodded, and asked:

"Then has your cousin's feed price gone up now?"

"No."

Wu Lei honestly said: "She didn't say the price went up now, it must be that it didn't go up. It's just that their family's feed is quite expensive, if I buy a lot, I won't have money again."

Don't look at selling a cow earning a lot, but Song Tan's feed is also not cheap!

The local forage grass price, like this crushed and wrapped kind, costs four or five hundred yuan a ton.

And Song Tan's? Even if it's a friendship price for Wu Lei, it's not lower than 1500.

His family currently maintains about 20 cows, if they eat pure silage feed, they need nine or ten tons a month!

Eating others is also fine.

Wu Lei didn't buy her family's at first, the growth of the cows was obviously not as good! He serves this group of cows every day, whether the coat color is bright or not, whether it grows well or not, that's really visible at a glance.

Finally, thinking about the cousin's promise to help sell at a high price, he gritted his teeth and turned back to this expensive feed.

Of course, the cousin's promise to help sell at a high price wasn't used, because Zhang Chen's side was in short supply.

He chattered and finished these words, not realizing that his bottom line was about to be emptied.

And this trustworthy good brother pondered for a while and said directly:

"That is to say, now it's your cousin's seller's market, and your family's cattle and sheep can't do without her good feed—right?"

"And if you don't buy it, in case it really rains, your whole family will go into battle, and you won't be able to spread and dry the fresh green grass that the cattle and sheep should eat in a day, right?"

"By then, if you eat ordinary dry grass feed, wouldn't the meat quality also decline?"

Wu Lei nodded across the phone.

Zhang Chen didn't wait for an answer, didn't care, and now touched a cigarette to light it, and there was a crisp "pop" sound on the phone.

But his voice was not surrounded by smoke, but became clearer:

"Then look at the advantages and disadvantages. If you buy feed in advance now, the advantage is: in case of a continuous rainy season, you don't have to worry, the cattle and sheep at home will always have fresh and delicious food, and the beef quality won't decline."

"The disadvantage is that this requires a large sum of money, and your savings are emptied—"

Wu Lei earned a lot from selling cattle last year, but he expanded his scale this year, and the calves introduced from the cousin's place were also expensive.

Therefore, saying it all, the savings are still pitifully small.

Buying two months of grass feed, 30,000 yuan can empty his family's bottom, and he becomes a poor man again.

Zhang Chen asked him: "Then what do you want savings for? You don't spend money in the village, and you can't find a girlfriend. Just look at the situation in your town, you can't even order takeout."

"Ten or eight yuan in your pocket, keep it for ten days, and still have ten or eight yuan left."

"In this case, if money isn't circulated quickly and used to reserve key materials, can it give birth to cubs in your hands?"

"Also, your cousin is responsible for one or two thousand mu of land by herself, and she can plant the land so well, she reminded you to change the weather out of relative affection, you should honestly listen to her, do whatever she says."

"Besides, if the money is spent and you really need to respond to an emergency, can't your parents help? Am I not your brother?"

Wu Lei honestly: "Oh."

?? Silly cousin, silly people have... have ancestral graves smoking!!!