Link's visit to Ozette Farm this time was mainly because of the designer introduced by Albert. Not just interior design, but also estate designers.

He intended to turn Villa Mora into a manor. Inside there will be a garden with various sports facilities for sports.

"Yes, the design is confirmed. Maybe in half a year, Hannah and I will move there. ”

"So fast?"

"Mom, as long as they are willing to give money, they can even do everything in a month. ”

Barbara smiled and said, "I just don't want little Hannah." She's so cute. ”

"I'll bring her back to see you often. And you can also go to Ozette at any time. It's less than three hours by plane. ”

"We will. ”

After dinner at Hans's house, Link took little Hannah back to Hans's farm villa.

Gradually, the weather began to warm up, and he began to get busy. He first went to New Mexico Governor-designate Giovanni. Originally, he had thought of asking Giovanni to help him solve the list of suspected tax evasion. But he had settled the matter for the time being. But he still came to the incoming governor.

He wants Giovanni to make his farm fair in organic food certification.

Giovanni may have seen his potential in the IRS list of suspected tax evasion, and gave a clear answer to his request.

New Mexico is also considered a large agricultural state. How can the FDA give the future governor some face. At the same time, Link made the IRS almost shake the storm, and also made the FDA dare not go too far.

Giovanni asked Link to resubmit the application for organic food certification from several of his farms to the FDA. This time, the FDA quickly inspected again, and soon issued a notice, believing that all the products, origins and production processes of the organic food certification applications on his three farms met the conditions for certification, but it would take a year to a year and a half of continuous observation before it could be truly certified.

Of course, that's just a matter of keeping a record of production. The FDA people can't be staring at his farm every day. A year is in accordance with the prescribed number of on-site inspections several times, as long as the inspection report does not find any problems, his certification application can be officially approved.

This is because the organic food market is getting bigger and bigger, and the FDA has made adjustments to the certification process. This allows farms applying for certification to become competitive earlier.

It can be said that the agricultural products produced by Link's three farms, although they have not yet passed the organic certification, but the origin and production process are in line with the requirements of organic food, and the things produced also have the quality of organic food. He was able to continue his plan as well.

The cooperation I had previously discussed with Fan's Chinese Restaurant in San Francisco had not been carried out because the application for organic certification had been hindered, and of course, because of the abnormal weather, the cattle on several farms could not be grazed in advance. It cannot be slaughtered for the time being.

But now it's possible.

He called Shelly: "Shelly, I'm Link Hans. I've been to your restaurant to talk to you about beef supply cooperation. ”

Fan Xueli smiled on the phone and said, "Of course I recognize you." You let me know that I could have refused to register my income. ”

Link didn't want that to be remembered all the time. He said, "Thank you for remembering me. The IRS has nothing to do with me anymore. I'll continue to pay taxes in the future. ”

"WHY?" said with a smile. "Maybe you'll be America's new Lincoln. ”

"Then I'll die sooner than Lincoln. When I pay taxes, I pay protection money!"

"Well, I should probably pay it too. After all, gangsters who can make laws are really scary. Fan Xueli said with a giggle. "By the way, you called me, do you want to continue to talk about cooperation in beef supply?"

"Yes, I didn't contact you because my farm hasn't been certified organic yet. But now the certificate of origin has been passed. By this time next year, the beef I'm serving may be organic. ”

"Really, that's great news!"

Link said seriously, "I'm inviting Fan's Chinese Restaurant to visit my farm right now. You'll see our pastures, our cattle and the slaughterhouse we built. Maybe then you have more confidence in the beef I serve. ”

“OK。 I'll mention it to my dad. But that will take our time. ”

"Of course. You are always welcome. You can request a field trip to any of my three farms at any time. ”

After making the call, Link called Harry again and asked him how the restaurant was doing.

Harry said that the first one would open early next month, and finally said, "What do you think is the right price for steak?"

Link didn't eat or drink, so he said, "You decide." As long as you don't lose money. I can give you 80% of the market price for the beef. "The market price is to indicate the factory price. The ex-factory price of ordinary beef will not exceed $2.5 per pound.

"That's good. I'll calculate the cost again. ”

"Once you've decided on the opening date, give me a call. I had cattle slaughtered in advance. Link thought for a moment and then said.

Like Fan in San Francisco, Harry's Western restaurant is part of his farm-to-table program. That must not be done because of human factors.

He didn't wait for the restaurant to open. On the weekend, he was invited by his family and friends to Hans's Farm for a barbecue.

It was the first party he had ever invited to a friend on his own three farms. He called John Eco and his family, as well as Harry, Bill's family, Lily's family, and three lawyers and their families. Other than that, his family and the farm workers.

This barbecue party was mainly because he was going to test the slaughterhouse on the farm. To see how good the factories were, he needed to test the bacterial colonies of the slaughtered beef, so he planned to slaughter a cow to get a sample. The slaughtered beef is used at barbecue parties.

He asked Benjamin to send someone to take care of the other things needed for the party, while he himself went to the slaughterhouse early in the morning to watch the cattle slaughtered. But by the time he arrived, the cow had already skinned.

The area of a single slaughterhouse is not large, and only one cow can be slaughtered at a time. Workers can kill the cattle with pulsed electric shocks in one of the outermost killing rooms, then immediately bleed, and in this workshop, the internal organs are extracted, the cattle are skinned and cut into four pieces, and then rinsed with ozone-dissolved water and sent to the cutting room. The beef will be cut inside.

And how can the internal organs be sent to another room, and the workers inside will clean the cow's internal organs. The cleaned offal is first soaked in water containing ozone to sterilize.

When ozone is dissolved in water, peroxide water will be formed, which has a certain bactericidal effect.

He was wearing a one-piece white overalls on the mountain, with a mask on his mouth and a hat on his head, and only a pair of eyes were exposed all over his body. He entered the partition room. The dividing room is the largest space in a single slaughterhouse, and according to the plan, there will be eight workers working in it. They split a quarter of the cow for every two, one cut it up and threw it into the ozone water, and the other wrapped the incoming beef.

As soon as he entered, the workers were preparing to firm up the grade of the beef.

There are several criteria for grading beef in the United States. First of all, it is divided into five grades based on carcass weight, sex, use, and age of the cattle.

Then a comprehensive assessment was made according to the physiological maturity of the cattle and the marbling of the meat.

The slaughtered cow was thirty-one months old, and there was certainly no problem with its physiological maturity, which was one of the best stages of physiological maturity. As long as the marbling grade is grade 3 or higher, beef between the ages of eight and forty-eight months may be graded as premium beef. However, after the age of the cow is more than 30 months, the marbling must reach the second grade or higher before it can be classified as premium beef.

The so-called marbling looks at the fat sedimentation grid on the cross-section of the eyemeat after the transverse incision between the 123rd thoracic vertebrae of the cow.

And the cow is cut into four slices, and it is from this position that it is cut. Link could see the marbling of the cow just right. However, he was still inexperienced, so he asked the workers inside: "Should the marbling of this beef belong to that grade, to the fourth level or above?"

All other indicators of this cattle can be classified above the grade of premium beef. Only if the marbling is above level 4, this beef is considered relatively good. Although I can't get to the special class, I can't enter the high-end restaurant. But it's enough for the people he plans to sell to at the moment.

The worker pinched the eye muscles before replying: "The thickness of the outer layer of fat is less than 1 cm, the cross-section of the eye muscles is quite large, and the fat in the heart and abdominal cavity seems to be relatively small." It should be second class, boss. However, this requires a specific assessment to be truly determined. You know, we're just slaughtering workers, and no one wants to believe it. ”

Link laughed and said, "At least I do." He paused. "So, this cow is very well raised. ”

"Yes, this cow is very well raised. Boss. If it is second-class marbling, some of the cow's special beef can be sold in fine dining restaurants. ”

Link nodded, and took a step back to stop his work.

Watch as he expertly uses a few different knives on the operating table, barely stopping to separate the pieces of beef along the diaphragm between the muscles. Sure enough, there are benefits to paying higher wages for these older workers. They have done a few different splitting processes in the slaughterhouse and know all the muscles of the cow's body.

The separated beef is thrown into a stainless steel basin filled with ozone water. The water in the basin passes through a circulating system of purple pill thread sterilization and protein separation. Proteins and bacteria are removed from the water and recycled.

The beef is washed in water and then packed in a crisper and labeled.

Although the meat will be used for barbecue today, this is a trial production, so everything is done according to the normal production procedure.

Link was completely relieved to see how orderly they were doing. He looked at it for about an hour, and a cow was completely divided. It's not fast, but it's enough for him.

Counting other processes, it takes about two hours on average for a cow. According to his plan, Hans would slaughter an average of three or four cows a day on Hans's farm. Six to forty hours a day is enough.