Chapter 98 I want to try it
Chapter 98 I want to try it
The farm received several orders and the wood began to be loaded and shipped.
The five thousand acres of angelica have also begun to be harvested. Jiang Hua guards the medicinal fields every day to calculate the yield.
The yield is quite good. Although it has only been grown for one year, it is still more than 400 kilograms.
It can produce 150 kilograms of dry goods.
The only problem is that the price is too high, more than 20 yuan per kilogram.
Normally, angelica is harvested once every three years, and the yield per mu ranges from 200 to 400 kilograms. At this price, farmers will serve it for three years like they would a grandfather, and after deducting various expenses, even if the yield per mu reaches 400 kilograms, they can only produce kilograms of dried goods.
The yield per mu is only three to four thousand.
The yield of medicinal angelica is low, and 400 kilograms per mu is considered high.
How much can farmers earn after deducting various overhead costs?
But the farm costs are low.
Jiang Ning did not make a detailed calculation, but roughly estimated that he could earn three thousand per acre of land.
In fact, it is not cost-effective. It is better to sell grass.
After a year of hard work, the profit is really too low.
But there was too much hay to sell, and winter was about to come, so the grass could not be left there without being harvested. Otherwise, the weather would be dry and the farm would be in turmoil if there was even a little spark. After all the grass was harvested, there were more than 5,000 tons of hay piled up.
In order to sell them all, the price has been discounted to three hundred per ton.
The highest output is actually trees.
The trees on the farm are planted densely, with 100 trees planted per acre.
Even if a tree costs 500 yuan, that would be 50,000 yuan.
But there are too many of them, and it will take more than half a year to cut down all these two million trees.
I don’t know when it will be sold out.
Although the profits from growing medicinal herbs are small, they can be converted into cash quickly.
We still need to develop in a diversified way.
It's almost November, and all things are beginning to prepare for winter, with the wilderness turning yellow.
The farm is still green though.
But it also began to wither, and plug-ins could not change the laws of nature.
As expected, some of the chickens grazing on the farm followed the laws of nature and turned from domestic chickens into pheasants.
The chicken can fly more than one meter high by flapping its wings.
Fortunately, I have not left the farm and am still a farm chicken.
A group of wild sheep came to the outside of the farm. The flock was not big, with only about ten sheep.
The locals call it Qingyang. It lives in the mountains. It is said that decades ago, when it was not a protected animal, mountain people could still eat wild game. It was almost hunted to extinction. Later, it became a protected species and was no longer allowed to be hunted. Only in recent years has the number of wild animals gradually increased.
This thing is very wary of bipeds.
I won't get close to you easily.
Jiang Ning went into the mountains twice, but didn't see this thing.
But now he came to the farm and stood watching from a distance.
The security team saw it during a routine farm inspection using a drone and reported it to Jiang Ning.
Jiang Ning went over to take a look and was puzzled: "How did these things get down the mountain?"
Security captain Wang Qiang said, "It has rained less this year, so the grass in the mountains hasn't grown. In addition, it got cold too early in the mountains. Now it's winter. I guess these animals can't eat grass, so they came down to look for food."
Jiang Ning felt that it made sense, and he couldn't think of any other answer.
The drone flew low, taking clear pictures of the wild sheep.
Jiang Ning looked at it for a while and couldn't help but want to taste it.
He hasn't eaten it yet, but he heard it's delicious.
But this thing is now a first-class protected animal. If you dare to hunt it, you must step on a sewing machine.
Many people from Bei'an were sentenced in the past few years.
Even if he secretly caught one, it would be fine, but after thinking about it, he decided not to. He still had to abide by the law. Although wild animals could not be hunted, if they were raised on a farm, then there would be no problem.
Jiang Ning started to rack his brains and think of a solution.
This thing is too wary of two-legged beasts and there is no way to get close to it.
Not the same as the silly rabbit.
I looked at the grass strip outside the farm from a distance but didn't get close.
It is not easy to lure these things into the farm.
Jiang Ning thought for a long time but couldn't come up with any good solution.
Still have to take it slow.
After watching it for a while, I found it a bit boring.
Let the security team keep an eye on it and then leave.
As a result, it took three days for Wang Qiang to report.
The wild sheep ran to the grass strip outside the farm to graze.
It wasn't discovered by a drone.
Those things probably run over in the middle of the night and won't come near during the day.
Instead, the security guard suspected that the wild sheep were secretly eating grass at night, and confirmed it after running over to check, because a lot of wild sheep feces were found in the grass. The security guard didn't recognize it, but how could the shepherds not recognize it?
Although they are all sheep dung.
But there is still a difference between wild sheep dung and domestic sheep dung.
The security guards were all young guys and had never raised sheep, so of course they didn’t know them.
The shepherd could tell them apart at a glance. Jiang Ning went over to take a look, but didn't see any wild sheep.
Those things disappeared long ago, and no one knows where they went.
Chatted with the shepherd for a while.
Jiang Ning asked, "The weather is getting colder. When are you going to drive the sheep back home?"
The shepherd said, "It's still early. The grass is still growing well and the sheep still have food to eat. Don't rush back, or else we'll have to give them fodder. Besides, the boss has built a cabin for us and provided us with coal for burning. It's not cold at night. We can go back when there's no grass left and it snows."
Jiang Ning said, "In a week at most, the grass here will turn yellow, and the dry weather will make it easy for fires to occur. You all know what the consequences will be if a fire breaks out here, so the farm must be cleaned up."
The shepherd didn't want to leave: "Boss, the grass isn't growing anymore. If I let the sheep eat it for another month, it will be eaten up."
Jiang Ning shook his head: "There are some grasses that sheep like to eat, and some that they don't. Not all grasses will be eaten by sheep, so the farm still needs to be cleaned up. This is non-negotiable. To put it bluntly, if there is a fire, my farm will not be able to escape, and your sheep will also suffer. After my farm is burned, the trees will grow again next year, but what if your sheep are burned to death?"
The shepherd said, "We understand that too. We would have been careful not to cause a fire."
Jiang Ning asked, "What if someone who wants to create chaos in the world comes and sets a fire in the middle of the night?"
"This……"
The shepherd opened his mouth, but could not say a word.
Twenty years ago, this would not have happened.
But it’s hard to say now.
Nowadays, there are all kinds of people.
Jiang Ning added, "So, I can't and dare not bet. This piece of grass must be cleaned up, and we have to water it every day after cleaning it. There are hundreds of people on my farm, and I can't joke about this. So you should clean up and drive the sheep home early. If you need fodder, wait until the harvester finishes harvesting, and you can find a car to take the fodder back."
The shepherd asked, knowing that the farm was selling grass, and asked, "Do you want money?"
Jiang Ning shook his head: "No, I'll give it to you for free."
The shepherd said sincerely: "The boss is such a good man."
Jiang Ning asked: "Since you think I'm a good person, why don't you give me a few sheep to eat?"
"This one……"
The shepherd looked embarrassed and a little reluctant.
Jiang Ning laughed: "Okay, notify the other shepherds as well!"
The shepherd quickly agreed.
In Bei'an, the fire department is actually quite idle.
There is basically no fire prevention pressure in winter.
But since the establishment of the Fairy Farm, firefighting has never been easy.
In the summer, I was worried that the hundreds of thousands of tons of dry branches and waste from the farm would suddenly catch fire one day. In the autumn and winter, I watched the grass on the farm turn yellow bit by bit, and my heart became more and more worried. I was more worried than Jiang Ning, the boss.
The safety supervision department is also worried.
I’m afraid something might happen on the farm.
If something really happens, the boss Jiang Ning will certainly not be able to escape.
They can't run away either.
The two made three trips a day to check various safety and fire prevention measures and helped the farm establish a 24-hour early warning mechanism. The fire department even directly placed two fire trucks on the farm to avoid delays in the event of sudden emergencies.
The main reason is that the grass on the farm is too dense.
In the wilderness of Bei'an, after the summer, the grass has been eaten bare by sheep and livestock.
Even if you pour gasoline on it, it won't catch fire.
But it’s different on the farm. Although the grass on the pasture has been harvested, there is no way to deal with the grass in the woods. Large harvesters cannot get in, and how much can the workers harvest with small harvesters? There is no need to worry in the summer.
After all, plants contain water, so even if you pour gasoline on them, they may not burn.
But it’s different in winter.
Trees are better, it takes time for that thing to burn.
As long as we are well prepared, we can put out the fire in the first place.
But grass is different. It is extremely flammable. If there is even a little spark, it will set the whole field on fire in the shortest possible time. The grass on the farm grows so densely and the trees are planted so densely that by the time the fire truck arrives, the day lilies will probably be dead.
If they don't want to be implicated and held accountable, the two units have to help do the work.
Filling in the gaps.
The police station is also uneasy because they are afraid that someone will do something bad.
If someone really sets the fire secretly, they won't be able to escape if something serious happens.
Therefore, we set up a joint control and prevention mechanism with the farm security team. In short, we must make use of the existing personnel, equipment and technical means to do everything possible to prevent lawless elements from causing damage and spend this winter safely.
In order to facilitate joint operations, the farm security guards also wore temporary workers' uniforms.
Feng Yu has been very busy recently.
The school is busy with rectification and there is too much work to do. It is said that the various printed materials are filled in several cabinets, and several printers have been scrapped. The work is done very solidly, and when the superiors come to inspect, they can just check the materials in several cabinets.
Get whatever you want.
Teaching sixth grade is already stressful.
In addition to the rectification, we have to work overtime until eight or nine o'clock every day.
Boss Lu originally gave them half a year, but he saw that these people really didn't know how to recite the sutra. Not only did they recite the sutra incorrectly, but they also didn't solve any of the actual problems. It was just a waste of time, so he wielded the killing stick before the deadline.
Feng Yu came back in the evening and told Jiang Ning about things at school.
Jiang Ning knew about this a long time ago, and he didn't care about it. He asked, "Have you discussed it with my sister? Do you want to go to Europe and America to see her?"
Feng Yu was a little conflicted: "I also hope she can be cured, but my sister has been in the hospital since she was a child and is afraid of it. She doesn't want to go. I will slowly persuade her. After all, she has been here for so many years, so there is no need to rush in the next few days."
Jiang Ning nodded and said, "The Spring Festival is early this year. February 1st is the first day of the Chinese New Year. There is still a while before school starts. Let's go out and have a look. Do you want to go to Europe, America or Australia? I will apply for a visa as soon as possible."
Feng Yu was surprised: "Going abroad during the winter vacation? I haven't even thought about it!"
(End of this chapter)