Using the method of managing industry to manage farms is the principle that Qi Zheng has established for farms from the very beginning. And the first thing management has to face is people.

Qi Zheng has feelings for his hometown father, but he also knows that ordinary farmers cannot become a new type of herdsman.

According to the company's regulations, the farm employees can receive a salary of 800 yuan per month - this income is already a lot in the local area, and they have also built housing for them, and equipped with water, electricity, biogas digesters, etc., so that the problem of food and housing can be solved by themselves. The villagers were excited at first, where could they find such a good thing to have a stable salary so close to their homes and not be tired of working?

But they soon discovered that it wasn't as easy as they thought to be part of a farm team. Many employees complained to Uncle Cheng: "The requirements of the farm are too high, and everything has standards, which is completely different from our own breeding in the past." ”

Each new employee has to go through strict training, Uncle Cheng and Xie Kaiji will repeatedly tell them every link of breeding, tell them what to do every month, remind them that the company not only has a plan, requirements, but also supervision, and there will be unified inspections from time to time.

Working in Qi Zheng's farm is definitely not as simple as working hard. The villagers need to continue to learn and debug, and each process must meet the requirements from the seedling to the brooding period and the breeding period.

The farm has enough patience for instructing the staff, but there are stricter standards.

One week before entering the chicks, the ground in the brooding house should be cleaned, and the chicks should be comprehensively disinfected with 100 poisons or caustic soda; after the chicks enter the chicken coop, the temperature of the chicken coop should be strictly controlled, and the temperature should be high and low; the seedlings should be guaranteed to be exposed to 24 hours of light, which is conducive to the rapid growth of the seedlings, and the survival rate should be improved......

Stocking should be strictly controlled range, the density should not be too large, the stocking area should be separated by wire nets, and the utilization rate of forage should be effectively improved; during the grazing period, there should be special personnel to take care of it, and the frequency of inspection should be strengthened to avoid chickens and ducks escaping; dogs can also be domesticated to inspect chickens and ducks, but when domesticating dogs, dead chickens and ducks, chicken and duck bones shall not be used, When the wild duck grows to a certain size, because the nature of the wild duck is relatively wild, it is necessary to insist on cutting their wings and domesticating them to strictly prevent escape......

In order to make the chickens and ducks ecologically raised, the whole feeding period should be limited to the supply of compound feed, let them eat freely, and provide enough clean drinking water; breeders should wear plain clothes, to prevent outsiders from entering the house to disturb the chickens and ducks......

At first, the villagers were completely unable to adapt or even understand. In their view, raising poultry is just raising poultry, feeding more feed, and being careful not to get sick. Even Uncle Cheng didn't understand it at first, for example, when Qi Zheng insisted on planting forage instead of feed.

Xie Kaiji said: "Later, the facts educated them, and now it is effortless to manage. ”

What are the facts? The peasants are the most realistic, no matter how fanciful you say, they must be able to see tangible results, otherwise everything will be in vain.

After a month of hard work, the villagers watched the chickens and ducks thrive as if inflated, the key is to save feed, although they don't know how to taste like it, they also know that the cost of breeding according to this model will not be high, it is really promising, promising!

So far, the morale of the employees has been greatly improved, and they can actively obey the company's management.

Qi Zheng said to his father Qi Jiande and Uncle Cheng: "The application of industrialized production and management methods to agriculture and animal husbandry will inevitably conflict with tradition." Industrial production only needs to solve the problem of people and adapt people to the requirements of production. And agriculture and animal husbandry are inherently non-standardized with many factors. ”

"To solve the mutual influence of many factors at the same time, not only to solve the personnel management and incentives, improve the quality and technology of personnel, and reconcile the contradiction between immediate interests and long-term interests, but also to take into account the changes in the natural environment such as water, fertilizer, sunlight, temperature, etc., but also to consider the product's own variety, growth, maintenance and other links. ”

"Scientifically arranging and organically combining these elements according to time, situation, person, and object is actually a kind of art. In this field, we are all groping. ”

Father Qi Jiande and Uncle Cheng both thought so.

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According to conventional ecological breeding, the breeding density of chickens and ducks should not be too high. This is mainly due to food restrictions, after all, within a certain range of chickens and ducks can forage for food is limited, if by increasing feed, and lose the original intention of ecological breeding.

Qi Zheng's farm benefited from the lush growth of pasture grass and locust breeding, and could provide sufficient food and exercise for chickens and ducks within the same range, so after discussing with Uncle Cheng, it was decided to appropriately increase the breeding density and expand the farm to increase the scale of breeding.

The average number of chickens stocked per mu of woodland is 200 to 300, and the farms of Qi Zheng will reach 500 birds per mu of woodland; however, there is little difference in the breeding density of wild ducks, which is controlled at about 400 per mu of stocking -- ducks always eat much more than chickens.

Therefore, the current farm has been expanded to cover an area of nearly 100 acres, with 25,000 local chickens, 20,000 wild ducks, and more than 20 employees, which is a large-scale ecological farm.

When Qi Zheng saw the dense flocks of chickens and ducks foraging and playing in the mountains and forests and between the rivers, he still couldn't help but feel a little emotional.

There are some things that we come into contact with every day and think we know very well.

But that's not necessarily the case.

This is especially evident in food – the modern industrial mode of production is so different from the way most people think of it that many people dare not imagine.

For example, the chicken and eggs that everyone is most familiar with, in the minds of many people, do they still retain the scene of small bridges and flowing water, in front of the house and behind the house, and roosters and hens wandering around to feed?

People even think that the owners of the chickens can remember the personality traits of those chickens. People and livestock, to a certain extent, live in harmony, and perhaps have a certain amount of emotional exchange.

But that's not the case.

In modern farming, it can definitely be described as cold, ruthless, and even cruel.

You may not know that the chickens in the modern farm are born according to the gender classification, the roosters have no chance to grow up to be crushed, and the surviving hens will soon be cut off their beaks, and then put in a crowded breeding space, all activities in life are just to eat and drink, grow meat or lay eggs to their heart's content.

In traditional farming and animal husbandry, animals are distinct creatures. In modern farming, animals are just breathing bioreactors, feed and water are raw materials, and meat, eggs and milk are products.

The goal of the development of modern farming technology is how to choose more reasonable raw materials - more reasonable formula feed, design better reactors - cultivate varieties with faster feed conversion speed and higher conversion efficiency, and optimize more reasonable reaction conditions - such as temperature, light, activity time, hygienic environment, etc.

This line of thinking and logic has undoubtedly achieved great success in poultry farming - broiler chickens and ducks can grow one pound of meat without more than two catties of feed; laying hens can lay eggs 90 percent of the day, and only need to eat 100 grams of feed every day. Relatively less successful cattle need more than seven pounds of feed to grow a pound of meat.

Others may be convinced that a lot of hormones are used in animal husbandry, but this is not the case.

Following the concept of modern industrial production, this kind of rapid growth and efficient transformation of the breeding mode is actually the result of the joint action of variety, feed and breeding conditions.

In fact, the formula of chicken and duck feed is exactly the same as that of infant milk powder - it is according to the needs of various nutrients, matched according to needs, there is no deficiency, and there is no excess.

Maybe the formula of chicken and duck feed is more reasonable than that of infant milk powder, after all, no one will add some messy substances to the feed, resulting in chicken and duck kidney stones.

In this case, the "hormone" is really just a blind use by some unscrupulous profiteers who know little about modern farming - many people use it forcibly, but it is self-defeating.

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It's unimaginable, isn't it?

But what this efficient breeding method brings is that chickens and ducks are extremely cheap and easy to obtain.

If they are all raised according to organic standards, the activity space of a chicken is not less than 2 square meters, and the slaughter time is not less than 81 days, then one square meter of space can raise 2 chickens a year. If a family of three eats one chicken a week, then 52 chickens a year. According to the European Union's organic farming standards, then 26 square meters of land is needed to meet the needs of a family to eat chickens.

What is this concept?

Based on China's population of nearly 1.4 billion, 12,000 square kilometers of land would be needed to meet the demand for chicken.

You must know that the bottom line of domestic cultivated land is only 1.2 million square kilometers, which directly occupies one percent. And that's just chickens, but ducks, pork, beef?

So the truth is that without such an efficient model as modern farming, it is impossible to meet people's demand for meat.

When everyone is accustomed to eating meat and drinking milk every day, and tapping on the keyboard to point out the country, it is very easy to criticize the inhumanity of modern breeding technology.

Of course, we can criticize the shortcomings and problems caused by modern technology, but few people will think: if you don't adopt modern farming technology, but return to traditional farming methods, are you willing to restore the consumption of meat, eggs, and milk to the past? For example, you can only eat once or twice a month?

Qi Zheng believes that no matter how nostalgic people are, they will not be willing to return to their old lives.

Oh, and vegans should be willing, because they're already vegetarians. But how many people in the world are willing to be vegetarians?

Back to the moment, even with the blessing of the Spirit Array, the cost of Qi Zheng's organically raised chickens and ducks is only one-fifth of normal, and it will still be higher than the cost of factory farming - he is only engaged in factory management, not factory farming.

And Qi Zheng will still choose to sell at a high price, so this is destined to be unpopular with the public.

Therefore, before it can be transformed through inanimate chemical or biological reactions, how can consumers weigh the choice, for example, when the cheap and easy to obtain chickens and ducks and the flavor and taste in memory are incompatible, between the acquired characteristics and the lost characteristics, it is destined to have a choice and give up.

Well, in my memory, the news of "artificial meat" was all the rage, and although most people will still be "dissuaded" by its price, it is always an attempt.

As for the future, it remains to be seen whether Qi Zheng can achieve more efficient and humane livestock breeding through the application of the Spirit Array. But that's one of his goals.

After all, the problems brought about by new technologies can only be solved by seeking newer technologies or more sophisticated means, rather than going back to the past - because when everyone is accustomed to meat, eggs and milk as the basic needs of life, there is no way back to the era when they were regarded as luxuries and could only be eaten once in a while.

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