magic ranch

Chapter 593 Grass Harvest
(Thanks to my friend ぁぁぁ monthly ticket for encouragement)

After everyone's discussion, horse racing has been directly promoted from the third rank to the first rank. On the future planning map of Xiangshui Town, there is also an extra racecourse.

It's just that there is no design drawing for this racecourse. It's just marked on the planning drawing, and it can't have the dynamic effect like other buildings.

And this newly added racetrack did not attract everyone's attention. Now people pay more attention to the large and small animals in the ranch.

As soon as December enters, the temperature here drops rapidly.Even if the bear children don't plan to sleep in winter this year, they have become a lot more lazy, and the cat spends more time in the house.

As for their mother bears, they are really gone forever, since the last time they wandered away, they have not been seen until now.I don't know if it is a bear that loves to travel, and it goes for a walk in other areas, and then sleeps in a random place.

Last winter, the entire ranch needed to take care of the vegetables in the greenhouse, but this year, before entering the real winter break, there is one more thing to do, that is, the lush pastures on the pasture need to be harvested for a round.

In the past, there were few cows, few horses, and no sheep, but this year is different. After those fattening cows were put in the fattening shed, their daily food demand almost scared Liu Heming.

Liu Heming estimates that the amount of grain these cattle need during the entire fattening period will reach two-thirds of the entire growing period of beef cattle.No wonder the pasture prices put on their wings as soon as winter comes, and if they catch up with a snowstorm, they will get on a rocket, because these cows are so good to eat.

The cattle in my pasture are somewhat different from those of others. The cattle of other families are more or less fed with special fattening feed, and then fed with other grains and pastures for fattening. My own is purely self-produced.

So in order for these beef cattle to squat well, the grass must be harvested and sent to their mouths.

These pastures in the pasture are not ordinary pastures, they are the seeds drawn by the system's big lottery, and it can also be said to be the pasture seeds given by the system.

In the past, Liu Heming didn't really care about it, because in his mind, no matter how good the pasture was, it was limited.At most, it is more palatable. Anyway, animals of all sizes in the pasture love to eat it.

But today, after actually harvesting the pastures, he heard from others that he knew that the pastures planted in his pasture were more or less different from other people's pastures.

Most of other people's alfalfa is more than 30 centimeters, and some special varieties can reach a height of about one meter, but most of my own alfalfa is about 1.5 meters.

It wasn't very obvious before, that's because when he first planted, he planted the seeds wherever he went. He planted very willfully, and now it has become a large area.In addition, what everyone pays most attention to is the vegetables and various animals in the pasture. Even George and the others ignore these alfalfas.

After harvesting one acre of alfalfa, the total weight of the fresh grass reached 15.6 tons.Liu Heming didn't think there was anything wrong with the weight, because the alfalfa was very tall, but George and the others who came to watch the fun didn't think so.

"Dexter, the quality of your pasture should be very good." After harvesting another acre, George said after the load was over.

"The normal annual output of alfalfa is more than 20 tons and will not exceed [-] tons at most, but you only harvest that much once. If you harvest three times a year, the total output may exceed [-] tons."

"Can alfalfa be harvested so many times? Isn't it always so long, and then harvested as hay at the end of the year?" Liu Heming asked curiously.

"Haha, Dexter, of course not. If you only harvest once, I'm afraid many ranchers will increase their feeding costs a lot." George said with a smile.

"The growth of alfalfa needs a lot of water. As long as you give enough water, the growth of these alfalfa will be very vigorous. In the future, you can take proper care of these pasture planting areas when irrigating, and it will definitely give you a high return."

"As long as you can keep the moisture, let alone harvesting three times a year, even four times is no problem. It's just that this may have some impact on the quality of pasture, so it's best to harvest three times a year. Give them Allow four months for the growing season, with a slightly longer one-month interval between winters."

"When you expand the planting area of ​​pasture here in the future, maybe these pastures can bring you huge profits. Every winter, the price of pasture will rise a lot."

Liu Heming nodded, "This is indeed a good deal. I really didn't think about it at the beginning. At that time, there were few cattle and sheep. After I had cattle and sheep, I only thought about giving them enough to eat."

"Let's dry it first, and see how much the pasture weighs after drying. Don't worry about the high moisture content of the pasture because it grows too high. After drying, there will not be much left, and there will be no profit."

The pasture that people sell seriously is hay, because the moisture content of pasture is high, and the price will be high after drying into hay.If you don't dry so much fresh grass, you can't store it, and it will rot if piled up.

The dryer on the side was rumbling, and everyone also scattered the hay bales and put them on the conveyor belt.It took some time to dry, and everyone ran to the other side of the machine.Many small animals didn't know what they were doing, so they also gathered together to watch the fun.

I have to say that the current technology is really advanced. This seemingly unremarkable dryer can not only dry and pack automatically, but also set the drying degree of pasture.

This time the moisture content is set at 16%, such pasture hay is suitable for stacking and storage.In fact, it doesn’t matter if the moisture is slightly higher, but it is also to avoid errors in the humidity sensing device, which will easily cause the moisture to exceed the standard.

The dried pasture was weighed again, and the remaining 9.13 tons of this acre of fresh grass were dried.

"Hey, sure enough there is a lot of water in it, and the sloppy production rate has not even reached 60%." Liu Heming was a little depressed, but after he finished speaking, he saw that there was something wrong with the way everyone looked at him.

"Fernand, when you were working on other farms, you also helped plant pastures, right? You can spread the knowledge about this to your boss." George ignored him, but looked to the side Fernand said.

"Boss, the pasture grass in our ranch is already very sloppy." Fernand said with a smile.

"In the farm I used to work, when harvesting after flowering, at least 3 kilograms of fresh grass was needed to dry one kilogram of hay, but now we don't need half of the fresh grass in our pasture."

"See? The quality of the forage grass in your pasture is so good, I didn't expect their water content to be so low in the late flowering period. Maybe during their entire growth period, the water content will not be very high." George said.

"This means that your forage grass requires much less water than other forage grasses during the growth process, and your total forage grass production, in terms of hay, is more than twice as much as other forage grasses."

"I really didn't expect that the soil improved by the earthworms would still have such a strong fertility, which can keep these pastures growing well and reduce the demand for water."

"Hehe, it seems that these pastures are really good. Fernand, contact the people from SGS and ask them to take a few bundles away, and test them for us to see how they are in terms of nutrition." Liu Heming raised his hand Waving, said happily.

The production of the system really cannot be underestimated.Now these forages have surprised me in terms of yield, but I don't know if I can surprise myself with quality.

At the same time, I was a little fortunate in my heart. The performance of the pasture was so good that it didn't arouse everyone's suspicion. I just found an excuse for myself and put it on the earthworm.

Although this is just a microcosm, it can be seen that the various crops in the pasture have been recognized by everyone, even if they behave a little more against the sky, it seems to be nothing.

The gratifying yield of pasture made Liu Heming feel a little pain while being happy.Harvesting grass and drying grass require machines, and we will have to purchase equipment in this area in the future.That's money, and there's a caveat to buying harvesters and dryers that run on clean energy.

In the future, the ranch will focus on environmental protection, and will gradually phase out fuel-burning equipment. If you buy fuel-burning machines now, you will have a big head and nowhere to spend your money.

The pasture harvesters are all small harvesters rented temporarily, and the speed is not very fast.It would take at least a week if all the pastures were to be harvested.

The main reason is that the planting area of ​​these pastures in the pasture is relatively large. At the beginning, Liu Heming set aside 8000 acres of planting area.Although the growth of these pastures is not so good in some places, based on the current output, about [-] tons of fresh grass can be harvested.

These fresh grass have to be dried and stacked, which requires a lot of manpower to operate.That is to say, there are many workers in the ranch now.Stacking is not so laborious, otherwise I am afraid it will take at least half a month or so.

The inspectors from SGS came over very quickly. Instead of taking away several bundles as Liu Heming said, they took away one bundle, which is too much.

The pasture in the ranch was considered to be a bumper harvest, and because there was nothing else to do now, the construction of Xiangshui Town was about to enter a shutdown period, so George and the others used this excuse to blackmail Liu Heming for a barbecue.

The barbecue this time is also a combination of Chinese and Korean, with meat skewers and Korean-style kimchi rolls.Liu Heming complained non-stop, but he still made fun of it for everyone.After all, there is a lot of joy, and it is still necessary to share it with others. This is the real joy.

(End of this chapter)