Deere also made a number of suggestions. For example, high-yielding seeds for vegetables and fruits, and for example, in the food processing industry in Asia.

Link and Jessica jotted down his advice and said they would discuss it when they returned to the United States.

Developing new seeds is really what the Benis Institute is good at, and if they want to expand their presence on the farm, they really need to keep coming out with new seeds. And food processing seems to be a must.

After learning about the operation of Benehans Asia, the two did not bother Dill too much.

After about a week in Xiangjiang, the family chartered a plane back to the United States. At this time, there are still many things to deal with in the United States.

Jessica aside, the Benehans Group has more and more work. As long as she is still the president, it is difficult to have idle time.

Link, on the other hand, is preparing several farms for the wheat harvest.

The winter wheat grown on the three farms was previously assessed for yield, but the accuracy of the assessment depends on the actual harvest. If the unit yield of winter wheat is high enough, Bank may be able to bring the wheat to the UK for trial planting. That was a great opportunity for Benis No. 1 wheat to enter Europe.

Of the three farms, the best climatic conditions are of course South Oregon Farms, but the earliest wheat to ripen is Fairville Peak Farms. However, there will be no difference of two weeks between the three farms when they can be harvested.

In the valley between Filvi Farms, there are nearly 40,000 acres of wheat fields. The plant height of Benis No. 1 wheat is not very high, just over two feet. The wheat stalks are short and stout, but have a well-developed root system, which has good lodging resistance.

When Link arrived at the wheat field of the farm, more than thirty large combine harvesters were ready to go, and behind them were dozens of large trucks and dozens of tractors.

If it is another farm, it is usually followed by a farming tractor immediately after harvesting. Harvest in front, followed by sowing and planting suitable crops. Link though he planned to plough right away. But we don't plan to plant right away. Because he needs to apply the algae residue to the field. That requires plowing the land twice and then sowing the seeds.

Over the past few months, the farm has stockpiled enough kelp to gather the kelp with the soil, which requires more than two ploughings.

In the fall, he plans to plant corn. The corn he planted will not grow to maturity, and when it reaches the ears of corn, it will all be harvested for green fodder. Fairville Peaks plans to raise more cattle.

And the corn he wants to grow is, of course, corn seeds from the Benis Institute.

Benis No. 1 maize has a high yield, but this high yield is not only a high yield of maize, but also a high yield of biomass.

Benis No. 1 corn is tall, but stout, and can produce more than two buds. In the test plot, the biomass yield of Benis 1 maize can reach 26 tons per acre. Corn plants are rich in sugar and are very suitable for green forage varieties.

Shortly after he arrived at the farm, he announced the start of the harvest.

Two batches of a dozen harvesters each formed a large herringbone shape and started from the edge of the wheat field, leaving behind a clearing after the dust, and on their side, a large truck loaded with large harvested wheat. Behind them, dozens of meters away, tractors are also lined up in a herringbone shape, ploughing the land.

Looking down from the sky, you can see golden wheat in front of the harvester, and white stalks of crushed wheat behind it. But after another row of tractors passed, the land turned gray.

Link picked up a piece of soil and crushed it after the tractors had ploughed the land. Still very powdery and with a high sand content. But he believes that after several cultivations, the continuous application of green manure will turn the land into the most fertile black soil.

Fairville Peak Farm has enough water and also has a well-developed irrigation system. Coupled with the flat terrain, it is the land that is very time to cultivate. The only thing missing here is fertility, but he has a way to improve it.

Fairville Peak Farm is not staffed, and this is the busiest time for the farm, and even the farm manager himself drives the land to plough the land, and the farm staff does not have time to greet him.

He looked at it for a moment and said to Tiger beside him, "Let's go to the warehouse." ”

Later, the harvested wheat will be transported to the warehouse.

McCann, the farm's security leader, was also with him. Link said to him, "McCann, the people who harvested you here are paying attention. No one should be given the opportunity to take the wheat off the farm. He was not afraid of wasting his money on the harvester, so that it would not take the wheat out of the farm.

"Mr. Hans, we'll take note. ”

Link nodded and said, "You're working hard these days. When the harvest is over, your men can take turns on a month of paid leave. ”

After he and Tiger got in the car, he pursed his lips and didn't speak. He was thinking about something. He had just grabbed a piece of dirt in the field, but found that there were a lot of grains of wheat in the field. That must have been leaking from the harvester.

Not only did that create waste, but it also increased the likelihood of a leak of Benis No. 1 wheat. He's considering whether to fund a solution to the problem. Even if it cannot be avoided completely, it can reduce the loss of wheat grains from the harvest.

In fact, there is such a waste in combine harvesting.

No matter what kind of agricultural products are harvested, there will be a degree of waste in the trial machinery. The higher the degree of mechanization, the greater the amount of waste.

For example, when tomatoes are harvested in California, a large number of tomatoes are left in the field after harvesting. These were the ones that the harvester failed to harvest, and the shoots were broken as they were caught in the machine.

California's tomato farmer is not afraid of waste, but he grows seeds here. He needed to fix the problem before anyone else could react.

Link watched the wheat come in from the warehouse. In the afternoon, he received news that the harvest was slower than expected.

The reason turned out to be that the yield per unit area is high, and the harvester harvests more wheat per unit time, making it easier to fill the back body. The harvester needs to wait for the truck behind to carry the wheat from the body before it can continue harvesting.

Of course, there is also a reason why trucks are getting farther and farther away to transport wheat to the warehouse. However, on other farms, this does not happen even if it is far away. In the end, it's because the yield of wheat is too high.

For a while, Link couldn't find any more trucks to transport the wheat, so he had to harvest it first.

However, he also needs to understand the situation and see how many trucks and harvesters will need to work with the harvester in the future to make the harvester work at full capacity.

To do this, he flew a helicopter over the farm to observe. Sure enough, he saw that some of the harvesters were falling behind, and they were not lined up in a chevron shape, and they looked uneven. And the tractor behind them can only stop and wait for a while.

He watched from the sky for more than an hour. On this farm, he probably needs a harvester with two or three large trucks. Otherwise, it would not be possible to keep the harvester running at full capacity throughout the farm. Especially at a distance from the warehouse.

It was something he hadn't thought of before, but it seemed to be a good thing, as it proved that the unit yield of wheat was higher than expected.

He landed back on the ground, did some more calculations, and decided that it would be okay to buy more trucks. Farms also need trucking on weekdays. He immediately called someone to buy a truck. Even if Fairville Peak Farm doesn't need it, the other two farms can. Southern Oregon, in particular, has the most and most scattered wheat fields. The wheat fields are also farther away from the warehouse, requiring more trucks. Or you can drive back the truck that was previously pulled from the South Oregon farm.

However, he estimated for a while that the harvest time of the Southern Oregon farm was set for 10 days, and the wheat harvest on the two large Nevada farms would not be finished in 10 days.

He called Jessica and asked her to buy sixty trucks for the transport of wheat in the shortest possible time.

"Not enough trucks?" Jessica asked for something strange to him.

"We forgot to calculate the difference between yield and efficiency. ”

Jessica smiled and asked, "So, the yield is very satisfying?"

"The exact yield has not yet been determined, but it seems to be more optimistic now. ”

"Okay, I'll let the purchasing department buy the truck. ”

"Ready for the customer's follow-up?" Link suddenly remembered a question. "I don't know what their production is, but if it's good, we might be able to take some records and get them back for our publicity. ”

"I'll have someone do it. ”

Fairy Peak Farm's yields are so high that other farmers who have grown Benis No. 1 wheat should have very good yields if it weren't for the climate.

When he returned to the warehouse, the statistics came out.

McCann showed him the report: "Mr. Hans, this is the total yield of the first two thousand acres. ”

640,000 bushels?Link was also slightly taken aback when he looked at this data: "The statistics are not wrong?" More than 320 bushels per acre, which is already more than the yield planted in the experimental field before. And that's the yield of a large harvester, and if it were harvested carefully, wouldn't it be more than 330 bushels per acre?

McCann affirmed, "There's absolutely nothing wrong with that." According to the previous setting, after harvesting 2,000 acres, it was temporarily stopped, and all the wheat that had been harvested was shipped back for statistics. ”

Link saw that he was sure of what he said, and he was sure that it would not be a miscalculation. If that number is correct, he would have made $20,000 per acre of net income from these wheat fields. Even if it were to be shared with the Benihans Group, the output of these farms would far exceed that of other farms.

Because these are all seeds. The price of ordinary wheat will be nearly twenty times higher. Of course, processing into seeds, plus the cost of transportation and sales is relatively high, but he can still make a lot of money.

He had planted 150,000 acres, and if he could sell all the wheat, he and Benehans would make a profit of three billion dollars from the wheat seeds alone.

And that seems to be less than half of the U.S. market.