Except for those who took a leave of absence, the employees of the Cleveland Ranch were all here at the moment.

There are too many calves, don't expect the bored truck driver to help, the calves must be cleaned before they can be pulled again, God knows why this group of calves is so able to pull after being stimulated, if it is not for the money, the transport company really does not want to take this kind of business.

Complaints are complaints, the business in hand can not be pushed away, calves and lambs, fodder and fish food, a large ranch with a lot of vehicles, for the transportation team, the money is not easy to make.

After the fish, shrimp, crab and shellfish and cattle and sheep grow up, they can indeed sell a lot of money, but it is difficult to say how much can be left after removing the cost, and it is hard money to earn.

Zhang Xiaokai's math is not bad.

At present, there are about 1,500 cattle of various kinds in the entire Cleveland ranch, and 2,000 meat sheep are about to be taken over and raised, even if you earn $1,000 from each cow and $200 from each sheep, it will only be $1.9 million.

Of course it is impossible, it is difficult to reach half of this figure, it is just ordinary beef cattle and sheep, and the beef produced can only be regarded as good, not high-end high-quality products.

Add in the income from Shanghai products and feed crops, such as wheat and corn, according to the old man, if there is no problem, he should be able to earn about 1.4 million US dollars, and after cutting employees, water and electricity and other expenses, it is already very good to be able to leave 900,000 US dollars.

Because it is its own land, the annual real estate tax must also be paid, and other taxes are also unavoidable, and even less can be obtained, which is still under the premise of subsidy.

Even at Zhang Xiaokai's age, he felt that it was better to buy the money into stocks and eat dividends, or save it in the bank It was cost-effective, and if he didn't divide a piece of land and sell it, his grandfather would definitely not be able to pay off the arrears this year.

Those who are willing to buy land are just that, the rich can't look down on it, and ordinary people can't afford it.

The only good news is probably that the subprime mortgage crisis did not have much impact on agricultural and pastoral land last year, and the value of agricultural land in Oregon is relatively fast...... The actual value of the land and the fishery is almost equal to the money that the old man spent when he bought it.

The $4 million loan is just one of them, and there is another $5.3 million loan that will expire in June next year, and in case of bankruptcy, there is probably a lot left, after all, most of the loan money is used for the renovation of the Cleveland ranch, and the value increase is certain.

But if it is seized as a whole and sent to auction, it will definitely lose a lot, and the bank will not be merciful because the old man is old.

Old Ronald didn't worry, every day after going back, he poured wine and lay down to watch the ball game, and fell asleep, very leisurely.

Zhang Xiaokai first became worried, mainly because he lived in an ordinary middle-class family since he was a child, and he couldn't see others wasting money so much, and he also felt that it was a very bad thing to owe others money and not pay it back.

Soon after the calves arrived, the lambs were also delivered.

A small flock of last year's adult sheep was left behind, already familiar with Cleveland Ranch and able to lead their way in search of pasture and water.

Not yet, but after the beginning of this year, there is a lack of rain, and the farms and pastures upstream of the river are also pumping, so that the river is almost cut off, and it is currently relying on the lake water for flood irrigation with the declining water level, and only some greenery can be seen in the low-lying areas.

It is difficult to last year's leftover forage for a long time, and it will cost a lot of money to purchase corn and soybean meal like this, and the old man has been preparing to open the wheat field after a while, so that the cattle and sheep can eat wheat seedlings, so that a lot of money can be saved.

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March.

The sunny weather started at the end of last month, and every day started with a sunny day.

There is water underground, and the trees are pulling out their young leaves, which are green in the sun.

Groundhogs also emerge from their holes, and there are Canadian swallows that make brief stops in the lakes and can see a variety of animals.

Probably because of the warmer weather, Zhang Xiaokai's mood is also recovering day by day, although there are so many changes in his family, he is no longer so pessimistic and desperate, and is adapting to a new life on this Cleveland ranch.

One day in mid-March.

He was finally in the mood to drive alone to take a good look at the pasture, with the mountains to the north and east and the sea to the west.

The beach is pretty good, with rocks that have been invaded by waves for countless years towering off the coast, and California seals and California sea lions live on the rocks, which are protected by law and are used to the presence of humans, and will not avoid them even if they get close.

There is a new fishing boat parked at the dock, which was launched at the beginning of the year, called Cleveland, and an old fishing boat is not there today, and it continues to go out to sea to fish, and the old man will not miss any opportunity to squeeze them.

Someone at the fishing farm next door recently encountered a school of tuna and caught three large bluefins weighing more than 500 pounds in succession, selling for millions of dollars!

If it weren't for the restrictions on this kind of catch, the number would have been much higher, and it would have been a rare school of fish, and it would have been in the newspapers and made the news a hit, which would have made the old man envious, and hoped that his own people would be so lucky.

After the artificial rain, the ground finally became wetter, and a brief light rain caused the young grass to break through the soil.

Mexican corn grass, mixed alfalfa and a small amount of elephant grass are still a few days away from being free-range, and the once dormant and desolate land is now alive and healing.

The Cleveland Ranch was originally called Rye Ranch, with a small amount of vegetable garden planting equipment, but in recent years it has been abandoned and there are not enough people to take care of it.

In addition, there is a small garden that Zhang Xiaokai did not find before, about more than 200 square meters, overgrown with weeds, surrounded by tall trees, is a redwood forest, the oldest of which has lived for more than 900 years.

There were white clouds floating in the blue sky, and there were giant eagles skimming through the sky, and it was not until today that Zhang Xiaokai found that this land was actually quite beautiful.

He went out for a walk, and an uninvited guest came to his house.

Because the forage and food in the granary have been decreasing recently, there is a fat guy whose living space has been constantly compressed, and after living in the granary for two years and eating countless mice, a cat finally chooses to escape today.

It was going to get in through the doorway, steal something to eat and run, but it overestimated its size and got stuck in the doorway next to the door, struggling for a long time and unable to escape.

Not long after the nurse left, he helped Zhang Xiaokai's father, who had become a vegetative person, wipe his body and change his clothes, and now there is only a little white bear in the family except for him.

The white bear named Mocha had just pulled out the Thunderbird sculpture that Zhang Xiaokai had hidden from the cabinet, and bit it in his mouth as a toy, when he unexpectedly saw this blue cat that was so fat that it was deformed, and he approached after a moment.

The fat cat now only has one front paw and a big head to move, the cat barks to scare away the white bear Mocha, and the round eyes on the bun's face look at the golden bird, and he doesn't know what to think.

It's just a cub born at the end of last year, and it's not ferocious, but I'm a little afraid of this cat at the moment.

Clever enough to open the door with his front paws, he walked out with the golden ptarmigan sculpture in his mouth, trying to hide his toy, which had a little hole of its own.

Next to the house, the water level of the river is rising, mostly because of the rain upstream, which is two or three times higher than the previous day.

The White Spirit Bear is not afraid of water.

After hesitating for a moment, he finally decided to cross the river, and saliva flowed from his mouth, and he held the bird's head in his mouth.

As soon as he swam two or three meters, an already loose "eye" fell from the ptarmione's head, because Mocha raised his head, just blocked its throat, and was choked until it coughed.

As his throat moved, something was swallowed by Mocha the white bear.

When it opened its mouth, the golden bird fell from its beak and quickly sank to the bottom of the river, covered in silt.

This year, the current was muddy, and a large amount of sediment was washed down from the upstream, and it dived into the water several times but did not touch it, but was washed away by the river, and swam to the shore in a panic waving its forelimbs.

After going ashore, he dried his hair and looked into the river, looking slightly confused, and he couldn't tell where the toy had fallen......