The next day was the 23rd, and when he woke up, Xiao Yifei only felt a sore back, and he refused to get up on the bed.

Yesterday, Xiao Yifei was bored and actually went to experience the installation of drip irrigation pipes, but this work was very not fun. Dig a trench to bury the branch pipe, drag the drip irrigation pipe in the ground, especially the installation of the drip irrigation pipe and dripper, the height is too low, you must kneel on the ground, bend over, so that the height is appropriate. He also went to experience a pile drive, and he didn't think the machine was noisy with earplugs, but when he stood on the stool and held the pile driver, the machine shook so much that Xiao Yifei saw that everything was ghosted, and he only drove two piles, his head was almost stunned, and he was busy returning the machine to "Li Kui" and "Lu Zhishen" and escaped.

The black nose made the most serious protest against Xiao Yifei's behavior of lying in bed and not making breakfast for him. First, he screamed twice on the ground, and when it didn't work, he bit the corners of the quilt and dragged it back, trying to tear the quilt off.

"Blacknose, let me lie down a little longer."

The black nose let go and tilted his head to look at Xiao Yifei, he thought that Xiao Yifei would get up immediately, but after waiting for a while, there was still no movement, so he began to drag the quilt again. It's a pity that its strength is not as strong as Xiao Yifei's, and Xiao Yifei can't drag it when he presses the quilt.

But the black nose has a trick, it jumped on the bed and began to lick Xiao Yifei's face.

"Ah, Blacknose, you bastard."

The black-nosed saliva offensive worked, and Xiao Yifei hurriedly got up and pushed it off the bed.

While moving the muscles of his whole body and washing at the same time, the black nose squatted at the door and looked at him with blank eyes.

After breakfast, Xiao Yifei planned to leave to pick up the plane. But before leaving, he still has to go to the horse farm to do some errands.

Xiao Yifei opened the passenger door of Lincoln.

"Blacknose, go up."

The black nose jumped into the car very consciously and squatted in the passenger seat, as long as it was adding a seat belt, it was a model passenger. Xiao Yifei started the car. A puff of smoke drove towards the vineyards.

Just drove to the door of the winery, Greg beckoned to him across the jade lake:

"Shaw, the tractor at our winery that participated in the tractor parade was overhauled by Davy. Right. ”

Xiao Yifei didn't hear what he was doing, he only heard him say a tractor or something.

Tractor? Aren't all the tractors in our winery used in the vineyards? There was a small problem with the tractor. It was David who led the people to make trouble, and when there was a big problem, they were towed to the pit in a car. So he pulled his throat and asked:

"How was it before?"

"It used to be Beau or Jimmy who took David to overhaul them."

"Okay, let David take someone to get it."

When he came to the racecourse, Xiao Yifei gathered everyone in the racecourse, and there were only 6 employees in the huge racecourse:

"Hello everyone, I'm the new owner of the horse farm, Shaw."

"First of all, let's talk about reassuring things. Although I don't know how to run a horse farm, I decided to keep this horse farm for the time being, and everyone will continue to work as before. I've looked at the financial statements of the racecourse, and even at the current rate of loss, I'm confident that I'll hold on for a few years. As a result, everyone can continue to work with peace of mind. ”

Xiao Yifei told the staff of the racecourse that the racecourse would maintain the status quo and everyone would continue to work first, which was regarded as a temporary relief for them.

"The second thing. At the entrance to the racecourse, an area of about one or two hundred square meters needs to be drawn for the winery and the future resort as a parking lot. ”

"The third thing. Roger's people have evacuated, I need a manager here, I don't know you very well, I don't know who is capable, but it doesn't matter, you are sure you are familiar with each other, so I sent you a note, and you wrote down the most suitable person among you to be the leader. ”

Finally, an old man in his 50s named Lawrence was elected as the manager of the horse farm.

"One last thing. It's not about to be the end of the year, I just took over the racecourse. But I'll give out a year-end bonus as the winery does. A hard year is a treat for everyone. This money is not much, it is about a month's salary for everyone, I hope you are not too little. ”

This decision won a round of applause from everyone.

Since Napa Valley is called a valley, it must be flanked by mountains, and in general, they belong to the Coast Range. The Coast Range, which stretches 300 kilometers north of San Francisco to the vicinity of Los Angeles, is the longest mountain range in California outside of the Sierra Nevada.

Sandwiched between the Napa Valley and the Central Valley is Mount Howell and Mount Baka, which Highway 128 passes through and runs directly from St. Helens to Sacramento via Daviston. As soon as St. Helen got on the highway, he began to climb, Xiao Yifei stepped on the accelerator lightly, and the green trees on both sides passed quickly. After passing through Howell Mountain, Xiao Yifei suddenly found a large lake, and after crossing the lake, he found that there was a large area of vineyards here, and after winding through Baka Mountain, the endless plain came into view, and this came to the Central Valley.

California is one of the most important states in the United States, in addition to the economy, entertainment, sports, etc., the same is true in agriculture, California's almonds, dates, table grapes, raisins, walnuts, pistachios, figs, dried plums, kiwifruit, olive, garlic, artichokes, pomegranates, etc. account for more than 95% of the production in the United States. California produces nearly half of the nation's fruits, dried fruits, and vegetables. Among California's agricultural regions, the Central Valley occupies the most important position and is known as the "fruit and vegetable basket of the United States".

He deliberately set off early today to investigate what these farmers in the Central Valley are planting and what the profits are, and to see if there is any opportunity for him to intervene.

Once in the Central Valley, the road is lined with orchards. Because the leaves of the trees had fallen off in winter, Xiao Yifei had to slow down, and from time to time he had to stop to the ground to carefully distinguish the tree species. He found that almonds, walnuts and vineyards were mainly grown, and that all of them had drip irrigation equipment.

Although he knew what others planted, Xiao Yifei didn't know which fruit was the most profitable, so he walked all the way and watched, according to the instructions of GPS, after getting out of Winters (RS), he got off the highway and prepared to go directly to the capital through Davis.

When he arrived at Davis, Xiao Yifei immediately remembered that Davis had a famous university, the Davis Branch, and this branch has a strong agricultural major, and many wineries and vineyard managers in Napa graduated here. At that time, he inspected the Monterena winery, and he specifically asked for a professor from this school to join the inspection team. Many of these professors deal with agriculture all day long, and they must know which is more profitable.

So he took out his phone and called Professor Walker. Luckily, although Davis is also on winter vacation, Professor Walker is still in school and will not go home tomorrow, so he hurriedly contacted Professor Walker, and it would be better to wait for him at a coffee shop on campus.

Xiao Yifei chatted with Professor Walker, thanked him for his help to the winery, and gave a small gift to bring the two people closer. Feeling that the heat was almost over, Xiao Yifei asked his own question:

"Professor Walker, do you know which fruit tree is the most profitable to grow?"

"Xiao, are you talking about a single fruit tree or a unit area?"

"Of course, it's per unit area."

"This can't be said for example, each plot has its own unique nutritional structure, and there are the most suitable varieties for planting. You can't say that grapes are the most profitable, so use the wasteland where you can only grow pastures. ”

Xiao Yifei can only say clearly:

"It's not like that, I want to buy an orchard, but I don't know which kind of fruit tree is the most profitable, so I'm here to ask you."

"Oh, this, there are people in our school who study the costs and profits of various fruit trees, you can find out for yourself."

"Can you tell me where to find it?"

"It seems to be the study of agriculture and resource economics, you can go to their website and take a look, there should be all of them."

After a few more small talks, Professor Walker took his leave and left. Xiao Yifei borrowed the Internet of the café to take a look at the website that Professor Walker said, and found that there was really a research document that Walker said.

On the website of the Davis Center for Cost Research, experts have analyzed the costs and benefits of many medium crops. These varieties include blueberries, lettuce, tomatoes, nectarines, walnuts, almonds, olives, sorghum, Sudan grass and other fruits, vegetables, cattle and sheep pastures. In addition, the experts divided the state into several regions and analyzed the most suitable crops for cultivation in each region.

Among them, the Central Valley, an agricultural area 60 to 100 kilometers wide and more than 700 kilometers long, is divided into three parts according to their climate and geographical location, from north to south, the Sacramento Valley, the North San Joaquin Valley, and the South San Joaquin Valley. Xiao Yifei doesn't plan to go too far now, he wants to see the fruit tree planting industry in the Sacramento Valley.

As a result, he found that, according to the information of these professors, walnuts grown here seem to be quite good, with a maximum profit of 10,000 yuan per acre, of course, ordinary growers may not make that much, but even if the middle price and intermediate yield are calculated, it can be more than 4,000 US dollars.

Xiao Yifei remembered that Shirley said that his father grew almonds, and the highest profit of almonds was only more than 4,000 yuan, which was only more than $1,000 per acre at the middle price and intermediate yield. Why didn't the family switch to walnuts?

Xiao Yifei took a look at the North Coast agricultural area where Napa is located and found that if it is pure cultivation, the price of olive oil seems to be good, with a profit of 10,000 or 20,000 yuan per acre, but how can the best olives in the Central Valley only be more than 2,000 US dollars? If the profit margin is so big, why do people still grow here? Why not go to Mendocino County and plant it?

Xiao Yifei was a little confused when he saw these materials, and he decided to wait until he had time in the future to study these materials slowly.

If you get on the highway directly from Davis, you can get to the airport, but Xiao Yifei has been in California for so long and has not been to the capital, and now it is so close, you can't pass through the door. (To be continued)

PS: Again, I would like to announce that the update time has been adjusted to around 9 o'clock in the morning, and the two chapters will be updated together.