Chapter 22: The Rainy Season Is Coming

In the afternoon of the next day, two more boats full of calves docked. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoThis type of ship is specifically designed to transport cattle to cattle farms in the Amazon Basin. After the ship docked, the calf rushed over from the bridge more than two meters wide that had been built on the deck.

Li Sheng also went to see it, and the calf was driven off the boat, and the speed was relatively slow. Li Sheng did a favor and comforted the first few calves to get off the boat in an orderly manner. The cow is also a herd animal, and it is easier to overcome the fear of being the first to get off the boat safely. Once on land, the ranch staff skillfully placed them and weighed them.

On these two ships, there were fifty or sixty horses. These horses are local riding horses. It is mainly used for grazing. Previously, Li Sheng planned to use a vehicle to graze his cattle, but later saw that the wheels were pressed on the grass, which caused great damage to the pasture, so he finally chose a horse.

When the horses come down, they can't ride yet. Because saddles and the like haven't been prepared yet. And the cowboy also needs to communicate with these horses in order to ride safely.

The Matsuda Group also sent someone with the ship, the Indian who was in the Obidus office.

The cattle had been counted when they disembarked, and the Indian had taken samples from two dressed anti-epidemic personnel to test for several diseases. These tests are all rapid. Of course, the rest of the quarantine has already been carried out before the cattle are on board. The quarantine of this will mainly see if there is any infectious disease in the cattle during transportation. After they tested, they could ask Li Sheng to sign, and after the weighing was completed, the batch of cattle would be considered to be handed over.

And after this day, more and more boats brought cattle. Matsuda Group's explanation is that the rainy season is coming soon. It is not very safe to transport large quantities of cattle in the Amazon during the rainy season. There is also the fact that the calf's physical function will decline during transportation, and if it rains at this time, it is easy to get sick. So they plan to transport all the cattle to Silent Pasture before the rainy season arrives.

This also makes the ranch more worked. On the largest day, a total of sixteen cattle carriers arrived. Fortunately, at this time, there were about 40 workers in the ranch. Two shifts, all day and all day to disembark from the boat.

After half a month of hard work, all the cattle ordered by the ranch were finally transported to the ranch.

It is clear that Li Sheng is not a farmer. At the age of eleven he left the countryside. So he broke away from the glorious political identity of the peasant very early. Of course, he still knows how to plant rice. When it comes to herding cattle, he really hasn't done anything as romantic as riding a bull and playing a flute.

Although his family also cultivated the fields at that time, it was not worth raising a cow because the acres were too small. So he would take a hoe and turn over a vegetable patch, but let him go and put such a large herd of cows, he really couldn't help it.

He has no concept of a large herd. For example, when he saw the heifers, he saw that they had no horns on their heads, and if their faces looked like cows, he even wondered if they were crossed between cows and horses.

This is what Zhang Feng told him: "Because it is a large herd, if the cattle have horns, once the cattle attack each other, it is easy to get injured." And it's also a danger for herdsmen. Therefore, before the horns of the cow grow, it will be ironed with a soldering iron to destroy the growth area of the horn. If you don't, you can also have your horns sawed off after they've grown, as African nomads do. ”

And he can only be "oh oh" to show that he is abrupt.

He watched the Chinese cowboys riding horses and grazing, and he did have some envy in his heart. Not envious of them, though, that they can ride horses. Because he can actually ride a horse. He had studied in China, but he didn't have his own horse at that time.

Now there are two hundred horses on the ranch, and he can ride them if he wants. But after he rode it once, he didn't feel interesting, he didn't have the feeling of galloping. Much worse than a horse in space. Looks like we're going to have to find a chance to get two horses out of the space.

Unless the ranch is to transport goods, it is required to drive all-terrain vehicles, these cars are battery-powered, and the vehicles are also light, but they can also carry some things, and it is no problem to carry five or six people. They have large wheels, low unit pressure, and much less damage to grass than other cars.

He drove the battery car to the pig pen that had just been built. The piglets inside are still very small, only two or three kilograms each, but they will not grow to more than ten kilograms at the maximum. These were all obtained from Zhang Feng's friends. His friend got the money and returned home disheartened.

Now there are more than 2,300 pairs of adult fragrant pigs and 18,000 piglets in the pasture. However, these pigs are not recognized. If he wants to raise and sell, he must help these pigs obtain legal status.

Then let him get it, it's not a problem. In the end, it's because of money. He took out a sum of money, not much, that is, hundreds of thousands of reais. Then after inspection, all the documents were done. Now these pigs can be slaughtered and sold. He also applied for a patent for provenance. This pig will later be called the Silent Little Fragrant Pig.

The meat of this pig is indeed fragrant and crispy. If it is large-scale farming, the operation is good, and the market should be very strong. It's just that no one can breed this kind of pig now. He just arranged for people to raise them in the same way as ordinary pigs. However, artificial feed is not fed, and only grass and rice are fed for the time being. Although the cost is a bit higher. But after all, it is better than feeding those feeds that are definitely genetically modified. He doesn't plan to sell these pigs for the time being. He plans to expand to 200,000 heads before starting sales. During this time, there has been a construction team to carry out construction, and a lot of this kind of pig pen has been built. The advantage of this type of pig is that it is small, and an average pen can keep many more pigs than those big fat pigs. So even if 200,000 heads are raised, there won't be much pork to sell.

In order to breed these pigs, he plans to adjust the varieties cultivated on the cultivated land as well. Previously, only wheat and rice were planned to be grown. Now it looks like he needs to plant some soybeans and corn. Of course, he doesn't plan to plant those genetically modified seeds.

But these can't be planted for the time being. Because the rainy season is coming.

Plains are not the same as mountains. The humid air of the Atlantic Ocean runs all the way west from the plains. There is hardly any obstruction along the way. Until they meet the Andes, these air masses continue to rise along the terrain and the temperature drops, and the air masses have to spit out some of the goods in their stomachs as a way to pay for the journey. This kind of rain can rain for several days or even more than a month in a row, and then it will be sunny for a long time.

In other words, the water vapor brought by the Shimmer Ocean does not cause precipitation in the plains to a large extent. But the Amazon is one of the wettest regions in the world. The annual precipitation here is more than two meters thick. In other words, a person of average height can drown in this rain. So where does this water come from?

Rainforest!

Li Sheng also remembered this truth only in the last few days. Because the rainy season has already started elsewhere, even the jungle areas in the northern part of the ranch have been raining for a few days. But there was only one rain on the steppe. It's like seeing rain everywhere else from afar, but it just can't rain in your own place.

It sometimes rains on the edge of this grassland. That's when it rains in places with rainforests around. Fortunately, the pastures don't need as much rain. A little less rain may still be a good thing for the cattle in the pasture.

The area of the land that has lost rainforest is too large, more than 70 kilometers at its narrowest point. The mechanism of precipitation formation in rainforests in the plains is simple: a large amount of water vapor evaporates in the morning, the air rises by heating in the afternoon, and then falls by the cold. This is the legendary convective rain. Grasslands that have lost rainforests, without enough moisture, certainly can't rain every day.

But there's no denying that the rainy season in the Amazon rainforest has arrived.