Chapter 528: It Comes Naturally

The Southern Oregon Farm is today one of the most famous farms in the United States. Not only because it covers an area of more than 900,000 acres, making it one of the largest farms in the United States. Rather, it is because it invited a large number of wheat growing farms to visit in the past July this year.

The farm's staff, in the presence of hundreds of farmers, measured wheat yields and came up with nearly 310 bushels per acre.

That set a world record for wheat yields!

Today, there is a large factory on the farm in South Oregon. There are countless canisters in the factory that connect to this cable.

In the passage between the cans, Link wears a radiation suit and is inspected here under the leadership of the factory leader.

After inviting farmers to visit, the promotion of high-yielding wheat has actually begun. For more than two months after that, the sales company of the Benihans Group was promoting high-yield wheat.

In fact, Link did not expect that the unit yield of high-yielding wheat could exceed 300 bushels. In fact, he grows wheat on three farms, and only Southern Oregon farms can surpass that number.

The other two farms, Baker Farm's best farmland, yielded only 296 bushels per unit of farmland, and all wheat fields averaged only about 292 bushels. Fairville is the lowest, with an average yield of less than 290 bushels.

He thinks that's because Southern Oregon farms have used a lot of macroalgae residue for two years in a row, which has a great effect on soil fertility.

After all three farms had finished harvesting, scientists from the Benihans Institute surveyed all three farms. The results confirmed that his guess was correct.

Southern Oregon's wheat fields have the highest levels of potassium, phosphorus, and nitrogen in the soil of the three farms, and the humus layer of the soil is thick enough that the root system of wheat is much more developed than on two of its farms.

They believe that this is another major reason for the high wheat yields on Southern Oregon farms.

If their conclusions are correct. The other two farms, which continue to use kelp residues, should soon be fertile land.

Of course, if only having enough "fertilizer" is not enough. Because those two farms are deserts. If there is not enough water, no matter how fertile the land is, it will be useless. But he was not short of water on those two farms.

In fact, as long as there is enough water, even a desert can be turned into fertile land. It's like California. They produce more than one-tenth of America's agricultural produce in the desert every year.

But that's definitely not to say that fertilizers aren't important.

In fact, fertilizers are very important. Fertilizers allow plants to grow in the desert as much as they do in fertile soil.

The fact that the farms in Southern Oregon don't use fertilizer may be suspicious. But no one has evidence that it bought fertilizer. If it is used. The amount of fertilizer needed for tens of thousands of acres of farmland is easy to detect even if you buy it secretly.

So most people assume that no fertilizer has been used there. So where does the abundance of fertility come from?

In this way, the residue of giant algae came into the sight of American farmers at the same time. It also plays an obvious catalytic role in the promotion of kelp cultivation and kelp green manure.

That kind of chain reaction, of course, Link would love to see.

However, the most important thing now is the wheat seeds that are ready to be sold.

The plant does not have a factory director, and the highest position is a technical director. In fact, the plant is just an expanded laboratory.

The technical director is called Gary, who is transferred from the Benehans Institute. He was in charge of treating the wheat with rays. He took Link around the workshop as he walked slowly and introduced the work of the factory.

After listening to him, Link secretly calculated in his heart and said, "According to your efficiency. By November, you will be able to process 40 percent of the wheat?"

"Yes, Mr. Hans. And this requires a two-shift system. ”

Link nodded and said, "We need enough wheat seeds." You need to work hard during this time. ”

"You can rest assured! No staff member has expressed any dissatisfaction with their work. You know, the salary you're giving is satisfying. ”

Link smiled and said, "You deserve it." "Working in such a high-radiation environment is risky. And the workers needed are also highly qualified. He can only offer a salary that is attractive enough.

He paused for a moment and said, "So, we might need to add more workshops?"

Although Gary left the institute at the beginning of the year, he knew what the institute was working on. He nodded and said, "If you want to grow seeds for other grains on a Southern Oregon farm, you might need to add more than two plants of the same size." ”

Link nodded. Although the cost of such a workshop is high, it costs him more than 200 million US dollars for one of them, and the application procedures are also very troublesome, but it is worth it.

Today, the farmers who have paid the deposit have a total of 9 million acres of wheat fields. It wasn't quite what he had hoped for, but it was too good to have started.

The institute has completed the validation of the treatment method for high-yielding seeds of corn and soybeans. It will be able to be planted in the field next year. The seeds of those grains need to be treated with this kind of radiation in order to be sold. The processing capacity of this plant is certainly not enough for the company's needs.

And the price of selling seeds is much higher than the price of selling grain. He is also not afraid to increase investment.

He had learned about the situation on the shop floor and said, "Let's go out!" This is where you can only come in after the production line has been shut down. The longer they stay in it, the greater the impact on production.

Link was in the factory's office and explained something to Gary. What he wants to say is nothing more than that the efficiency of the treatment of wheat seeds must be guaranteed, and at the same time, the safety of personnel must be guaranteed.

Wheat seeds are just now in the promotion stage. They do anything, such as a breach of supply, or a factory that kills people. Those opponents who are eyeing each other will magnify things. The negative impact on the sale of seeds can be immeasurable.

After leaving the radiation treatment workshop, Link asked Tiger to drive him to the alpaca breeding farm.

Since the merger of the Little Alpaca Project into the Benehans Group, he has not intended to dedicate all of his pasture to grazing the baby alpacas. Today's baby alpacas, although they have plenty of room to move, are kept in captivity. The feed is all high-yielding alfalfa grown on the farm. That way they can raise as many alpacas they can in a small space.

For the remaining space, Link planned to raise cattle. In Texas, he has built a large slaughterhouse with a daily slaughter capacity of more than 10,000 cattle, and in three other states, three slaughterhouses of the same size are under construction.

And the cultivation of high-yielding alfalfa also gave him the possibility of raising cattle in captivity. His captivity, of course, is also a high-density captivity. But he used a cowshed. By raising cattle in this way, he can use his slaughterhouse to make a significant increase in the profitability of cattle raising. At the same time, he only feeds green storage fodder, and there will be more cow manure. The manure of the stocked cattle can be collected directly.

A key breakthrough has also been made in the research of the project to produce natural gas from cow dung. Maybe the cow dung from the raised cattle will be able to be used immediately.

Such cattle breeding programs exist not only in the United States, but also in other countries.

He was glad that he had allowed Martha to open subsidiaries in other countries. The technology of the institute was quietly licensed to the subsidiary at a low price.

When the federal government learned of Benihans's technology, it demanded to see the company's top-secret information on the grounds of the Patriot Act. In the face of this law, even Microsoft and Yahoo, which have been rampant in the world for decades, cannot resist the pressure and have to provide information to the government. Link, of course, had no choice but to give up resistance. But top-secret research materials are impossible to show them.

In the end, the government knew that they had that kind of technology, and that that technology had been licensed to subsidiaries set up in other countries. None of the companies are located in countries that are considered terrorist by the U.S. federal government.

The Patriot Act, of course, against terrorism, does not do anything to him. The inspectors had no choice but to walk away. As for his disobedience, the U.S. government will look at him unpleasantly, but when has the U.S. government ever looked at him pleasing to the eye?

Link got out of the car outside a fence and shouted at the old English man who was checking the alpacas inside, "Tom, you look so spirited!"

Old Tom was full of gray hair, but he was still full of energy. He and his assistant are examining a young female alpaca to see if she has successfully conceived.

"Link, you're here, wait a minute. Tom took some samples from the alpaca's tail and kept them before letting the baby alpaca go.

At this time, Link had already walked up to him, and saw several large aluminum alloy boxes on the ground, one of which was calling, and there were hundreds of small test tubes in it: "Is everything okay here?"

"Better than expected. Tom said with a smile. "The rate of artificial insemination of baby alpacas is getting higher and higher, and it has exceeded our expectations. He said and motioned for his assistants to continue their work. There are two to three hundred baby alpacas waiting to be sampled in another fence.

Link watched his assistant work and said, "Tom, are there many alpaca cubs born in the nursery, and how many are sold?"

"You know, our artificial breeding work only really started this spring. "Most of the previous alpacas were not yet sexually mature, so only a small number were inseminated. "So there weren't many alpacas produced before, less than a thousand. But in half a year, maybe more than 1,000 or even 2,000 heads per month. As for the ones that have been sold, so far, we have sold less than 2,600 heads, all of which have been shipped back from Peru. ”

Link laughed and said, "That's good. "If we can reach the number of new heads of 1,000 heads per month, the growth rate is already very high.

"I heard that the farm was going to build a wind farm. Tom said worriedly.

Link nodded and said, "Yes." You know it's probably one of the windiest areas on land in the United States. So I'm going to invest in building a big wind farm. ”

But Link, the noise made by the wind turbine when it passes through the wind is likely to frighten the pregnant llama cub and miscarry. ”

Link certainly thought about it. He smiled and said, "Tom, you can rest assured that around the alpaca breeding farm, I won't be building wind turbines." ”

After giving up all of his land for calpaca farming, Link brainstormed what to do with the rest of the land. Raising cattle is one of his ways, and the pasture can be planted with pasture or some cattle herd. At the same time, the surplus pasture can be used to feed the cattle in captivity.

Wind turbines can be built on both woodland and grassland.