Chapter 320 High-yielding wheat
In the busy, time will pass very quickly, and before you know it, it is the height of summer again.
This summer's Ozete seems to have been particularly rainy, with flooding in some places. The weather has been nice in the last few days though. Today, for example, the sun is shining and there are white clouds floating in the sky. After the sunlight is filtered by the humidity of the air, it does not feel spicy when it is sunburned on the body.
At two years and nine months, Hannah already has her own easel and a full set of painting tools, and she can use them decently.
Link has been free lately, and Hannah's teacher seems to be saying that he wants to create an oil painting, so it is inconvenient for Hannah to disturb her. Today, the weather was good, so he took his daughter to the small lake not far from the castle to "sketch".
It is said that Alyssa had homework left for her, asking her to draw six drawings of small flowers. There is no limit to the content, and there is no limit to how to draw.
Hannah is small, but she wants to paint flowers very similarly, so she often stops and runs to squat in front of the many model flowers for a while. Occasionally, Hannah can be heard lecturing a few pets running around her to stop them from running around and trampling on her flowers.
It's actually very easy to bring such a well-behaved child. While Link was with her, he had time to think about other things. And with bodyguards watching him, he didn't have to worry that Hannah would run somewhere else.
His eyes were on Hannah, but his mind was on his business. The preparations he had made before were quite thorough, and once he started operating in the first few months, although there was a difficulty, it was easily solved. Now that the projects are on track, he is much more relaxed.
However, he is also thinking about how to make his plan get the result he wants as soon as possible.
As he was thinking, Hannah put down her pencil and came to her on her short legs and said, "Daddy, I've got it!"
When he heard his daughter's voice, he woke up and said, "Is the painting finished?"
Hannah ran back to the easel on her short legs and beckoned to Link walking behind her: "Daddy, look!"
Link saw a wildflower on the drawing paper, all surrounded by blank space, and the lines were a little inaccurate. However, you can draw a complete piece of grass from the grass, and the position and bending angle of the blades are very similar to real grass. This proves that the little one is indeed very careful.
Seeing the anticipation in Hannah's eyes, he smiled and picked her up, helped her straighten the little flower hat on her head, and said, "Hannah has drawn much better than the last time." "Children are obedient and always like to listen to what they want to hear.
So he only said that the painting was better than the last time, instead of saying, "The painting is very good, and we must continue to work hard." Something like that. Because a child may only remember the best: she draws well. "Keep trying" doesn't come to your ears at all.
Like Link just said, it was a compliment to her. and make her feel better than before, and Daddy will praise her. And what children love most is to be recognized by adults. This may make her more motivated to draw.
Because after getting a compliment, sometimes you can be rewarded by adults. Hannah asked, "Daddy, can Hannah ride a horse?"
"No, I can't. Hannah won't be able to ride a horse until after she is six years old!"
"Oh!" Hannah had long wanted to ride alone, and galloped to Daddy like Kaka. So when she heard Link refuse, the disappointment on the child's face didn't know how to hide it at all.
Link smiled and said, "But Daddy can take Hannah to the carriage!" Just hold the little one in his arms and let her pull the reins, he will not be in danger to look at him, and it will make the little one feel like he is driving the carriage. It was enough to make her happy for a long time.
Hannah was really happy: "Well, I want a carriage!"
They were walking towards a wagon not far away, when Link saw an all-terrain vehicle driving up out of the corner of his eye. It seems to be Jessica in the car. On weekdays, Jessica goes to work, and she doesn't come back until half past five in the afternoon, so it's just before noon, why did she come back suddenly?
He stopped, and Hannah saw Jessica, who pointed to the ATV and called, "Daddy, Ka Ka is here, shall we take the carriage together?"
Lin Ke smiled and said, "Then let's ask Kaka's opinion." ”
Jessica drove an all-terrain vehicle to a few meters away from them and stopped. Before the car could stop, Hannah was heard shouting, "Click, are you also coming to ride in the carriage I am driving?"
When she saw Link hugging Hannah, she knew it was what Link meant. She got out of the car and said, "I'd love to!" she said as she walked over to Link.
Link smiled at her and asked, "Did something happen?"
Jessica seemed to be happy, and she smiled and said, "I'm here to bring you good news." After the large-scale experimental trial, the wheat seeds cultivated last time did achieve stable high yields. Now we can prepare to promote them. ”
When he heard this, he couldn't help but stop and laugh and say, "This is indeed great news." ”
In addition, suspected high-yielding gene segments for soybeans and corn have also been identified, but they may also need to be validated and base-adjusted in the same way as wheat. ”
"Although there are still experiments, Florin and they already have enough experience, and I think they will soon be able to come up with high-yielding corn and soybeans. ”
"Daddy, Daddy, let's go!" Hannah watched as they stopped talking, and she didn't understand them anyway, regardless of what they were talking about or something. Or driving a carriage interested her more.
Link smiled and said, "Okay, let's go!" he said to Jessica. "Are you going to go to California?"
"No, I just wanted to tell you the good news in person. Jessica said with a smile. "You've invested hundreds of millions in it. ”
He smiled and said, "Now it looks like I'm going to start making money!"
Once they were in the carriage, Link took Hannah in his arms and let her hold the reins. The little guy followed Link's example, pulling the reins and shouting "rack". After shouting a few times, the carriage did not move.
She looked up to Link aggrievedly and said, "Daddy, Gigi and Fanny are disobedient. Gigi and Fanny were the names she gave to the two horses.
Link taught her, "Pull the reins like this so that the horse can understand Hannah." ”
When the carriage started, Hannah shouted "rack, rack", regardless of whether the carriage really accelerated or not, she just felt very happy. It made her feel like she had done something grown-up.
Jessica then said: "This time, my father's hard red wheat has been experimentally proven to be suitable for planting in both spring and winter. It has a good promotion value. ”
Link nodded. Since he runs the farm, he also grows a little wheat on Hans's farm, which is Crimson Spring. So he knows some of the cultivation of wheat.
Hard red wheat is the wheat variety with the highest acreage and yield in the United States. What is planted in winter is hard red winter, and what is planted in spring is hard red spring. Hard Red Spring has the highest value of wheat because it has a protein content of up to 14%. I want to have quite good processing and baking characteristics.
However, hard red winter is the main ingredient of bread.
Whereas, hard red spring is mainly used to grind the high-grade flour required in the making of bread and biscuits. Hard wheat, on the other hand, is planted more than 65 percent of the U.S. wheat acreage each year. Other hard wheat, soft red wheat, soft white wheat, and hard wheat, together account for only 35% of the total planted area.
However, the unit yield of hard red wheat is also relatively low among all varieties, usually 36 to 42 bushels, which is about 15% higher than that of hard wheat. It is about 40% lower than white wheat.
"What is the unit output. "If the yield of the high-yield genes they are studying cannot be increased to a certain extent, then of course it cannot be said to be high-yield. So he's still looking forward to it.
"Their farm in Oregon is divided into three parcels and planted on twelve acres. The average yield is 281 bushels per acre. It is about 11% higher than the hard red spring yield that is mainly planted now. ”
"The way it is grown is the same as the way it is grown on the general farm?" he said, recalling the price of wheat this year.
"Of course not, the planting time is about a month later than on other farms. And we have strict pest control and control. ”
Small-scale trial planting and large-scale planting are two completely different concepts. If the wheat is diseased, it will definitely reduce the yield, and now the experiment has strict pest control, and if it is planted on a large area of the farm, the yield may be reduced. However, if the yield can be increased by about 5%, the farmer should be able to accept a new variety.
"When are we going to take a look?" Link said after a moment's thought. "We also need to understand the data on wheat diseases and fertilizer use at the time of planting. Also, I wonder if they are satisfied with the results of the experiment. ”
"Why don't you do it in the afternoon?" Jessica laughed, "My dad they're still in Oregon, maybe we can take Hannah there to play." Doesn't she really like the pictures of alpacas? Maybe she'll be happier to see real alpacas. ”
Six thousand alpacas have been brought back from Oregon. Link went to see and take the picture for Hannah, and Hannah announced that the little llama had squeezed out the White Rabbit as the cutest animal in her opinion. She had asked several times when she would buy a baby alpaca and come back.
This time I went to Oregon with Jessica, and there was no one at home to play with her, so it was appropriate to take her there to play, just in time for her to see the real alpacas.
He smiled and asked Hannah, who was concentrating on driving the carriage, "Hannah, let's go see the alpacas together, shall we?"
"Really, where are the alpacas?" said Hannah, her eyes wide, and she cried out for joy. "Shall we go now?"
"No, the alpaca is far away. After lunch, we flew on a plane to see the alpacas. ”
"Shall we go home for lunch, then?"
Link looked at the sky and saw that it was almost eleven o'clock, so he said, "Okay, let's go home for lunch, and then we'll go see the alpacas." ”
Hannah clapped her hands and cheered, losing the reins.
Link hurriedly grabbed the reins and said, "Hannah, when you set up the carriage, you can throw the reins away." Otherwise, the horse will no longer listen to you. ”
"Oh, I'm sorry!" Hannah heard him say, and immediately changed to a pitiful expression.