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"How's it taste?"

Edmund asked with a somewhat smug gesture, because it was already noon when he rushed over, so Edmund naturally entertained Li Yifan and Andy at home.

For lunch, of course, the steak produced by their family, to be honest, the taste is really good, the beef is very strong, very biting, and the heat of the fried steak is also well controlled, and it is Edmund's wife, a very kind old lady named Elizabeth, who cooks the steak for them.

"It tastes so good, it's so xiexie."

Andy replied politely, and Edmund smiled proudly when he heard this.

"To be honest, my ranch used to specialize in beef cattle, and the breeds were very good, all of them were good quality beef cattle like Simmental, Charolais and Highford, but unfortunately I shouldn't have listened to the damn guys for the first two years."

The old man shook his head regretfully when he said this, to be honest, in fact, these ranchers in Europe and the United States are very rich, of course, this old man was no exception two years ago.

Two years ago, he was mainly raising beef cattle, but after all, raising dairy cows is more profitable, and there are really few dairy farms in Alberta, and the fresh milk supply market in Alberta and British Columbia has always been controlled by the big dairy companies on the East Coast.

At that time, there was a newly established Sunflower dairy company, and he lobbied Edmund to persuade him to raise cows, and they set up a dairy company, and when the cows were milked. They are responsible for the discretionary acquisition. Deliver daily fresh milk to. Big cities like Vancouver, Edmonton, and Calgary on the West Coast compete with the dairy giants on the East Coast.

Jihua is very good, but unfortunately this sunflower company was born at the wrong time, it just caught up with the financial turmoil not long after its establishment, plus several dairy giants in the west, it is very wary of this sunflower dairy company that suddenly appeared. So under the attack of the two parties, the sunflower company was not established long before it went bankrupt.

As a result, Edmund, who had sold all the beef cattle and had just introduced a large number of dairy cows, had no downstream distributors for the fresh milk produced in his ranch, and he had no channels for himself, so the operation of the ranch suddenly fell into a dilemma.

Originally, Edmund also tried to negotiate with the dairy giants in the west, wanting to supply them with the milk he produced. However, there are cost issues such as distance and long-distance transportation, as well as fresh milk insurance. The dairy giants turned down Edmund's offer to cooperate.

Edmund had no choice but to bite the bullet, and after spending all of Zuihou's money, he could only mortgage his ranch to the bank and introduce a milk powder production line, intending to produce milk powder.

But who would have thought, as the so-called blessing is unparalleled, the disaster is not a single line, the introduction of the production line, just debugged, just a few batches of test production, caught up with the financial crisis.

At this time, in the dairy market, even the shipment of fresh milk has slowed down greatly, let alone milk powder?

At this moment, Edmund couldn't stand it at all, so he could only dare to contact the contact to see if he could sell the ranch before the bank came to take back the ranch.

After listening to all this nagging of the old man, Li Yifan could only sigh in his heart, this old man's luck is really enough to bear, but if he hadn't carried it so much, he would not have planned to sell the ranch like this, and he would not have had the opportunity to come here to pick up the bargain.

After lunch, there was tea, rested for a while, listened to the old man Edmund's business and his unlucky experience, Edmund took Andy and Li Yifan, came to the barracks where the cows lived behind his house, although Edmund is now strapped for money, but the sanitary environment here is still maintained quite well, and the smell of cow dung that smells like the cattle farm in China is very different, and even can be described as a few clean windows.

A sturdy cow with black and white flowers was leisurely in those pens, eating the feed on the automatic feeder, while curiously looking at the visitors who came to visit.

"Here are all the black and white Holstein cows I imported from the East Coast the year before last, plus in the back of several large warehouses, there are almost 1,500 heads, all of them are more than 1.4 meters tall when they become adults, the average annual milk yield of each head can reach 6,100 kilograms, and the average milk fat rate can reach 3.71 percent.

Edmund looked at these cows with some regret while introducing Andy and Li Yifan, if it can't be sold this time, then this ranch and these cows will belong to the bank.

"The milking is done with a herringbone milking machine, which milks the cows twice a day, and most of the milk storage, feed processing, feed delivery, and manure cleaning are done by automated production lines, and I think I invested five million dollars in these machines alone......

The old man began to introduce that the machines in front of each cattle pen showed that the old man actually had a deep affection for this ranch, and he was also very proficient in the management of this ranch.

"The feed is mainly green storage corn, clover, alfalfa, and other legumes, these plants, we can have as many as we want in our pasture. The concentrate is made of corn, barley, and oats, and these crops can be grown on our own pastures, and if we have enough people, we don't have to buy them from outside. ”

The old man looked at the expressions of his uncle and nephew as he spoke, and could see that he really hoped to find a suitable home for this ranch.

There are many things that the old man said, Li Yifan has understood in the information, and there are many things that he doesn't understand at all, but he knows that what the old man said are good things.

Not to mention anything else, just these cows, 1,500 heads, even these cows converted into RMB, according to the current price, it will cost more than 30 million.

What's more, the old man still has such a large ranch in his hands, and these machinery and equipment have been prepared.

"Further back, there is a milk powder production plant that I just introduced last year, the scale of the factory is not large, but it is enough to digest the milk produced by the cows in my pasture, and even further expand the production capacity, and the annual output of the manufacturer who sold me equipment told me that reaching 100,000 tons is not a problem."

100,000 tons, when Li Yifan heard this number, he had a feeling of golden light in his eyes, thinking that ten years later, the annual consumption of milk powder in China will reach 1.5 million tons, and it is still in an unabated momentum.

If you can win this ranch at this time, as long as you occupy one-tenth of the domestic milk powder market in the future, it will be enough for you to smile and your mouth will not close.

"But Mr. Edmund, even so, don't you think the asking price of your ranch is still a bit expensive? There are more than 48,000 ranches in the country, and there are hundreds of ranches of your size, even in Alberta, there are almost dozens of ranches with a similar environment and similar scale like yours, and I have personally handled a lot of ranch transactions recently, and there are no less than five ranches of the same size as yours, but each ranch like yours is so expensive? And as far as the things you just mentioned, such as dairy cows, automated production lines, milk powder manufacturing equipment, etc., we estimated them before we came, even if they all add up, they are just more than 10 million Canadian dollars, even if the land on your ranch, according to the current market value, plus the previous things, is only worth about 50 million Canadian dollars in total, but your asking price is 100 million US dollars, Edmund, isn't it a good world now? ”

Although Edmund boasted about his ranch, Uncle Andy didn't eat him, and bargaining was of course a necessary experience in every transaction.

What Andy said is well-founded, it is true that whether it is a horizontal comparison or a vertical comparison, the asking price of Edmund's ranch is indeed relatively expensive.

However, Edmund's expression was not flustered, and it was obvious that he had been prepared for such a question.

"In fact, the price of 100 million dollars for my ranch is not expensive, and it is even very cheap, because in the northwest corner of my ranch, where there is a large natural gas field buried underneath the land."

"What? What do you say|? ”

After hearing the news, Li Yifan, who had not spoken all along, could no longer be calm at this time.

As someone with more than 10 years of life experience now, Li Yifan knows what this natural gas field will mean in 10 years.

The reason why Alberta is known as the richest province in Canada is because it is the main source of oil in Canada, and there are many oil fields near the capital Edmonton.

When it comes to Alberta's oil fields, it is not well known either nationally or internationally, but the province is most famous for its buried oil sands mines.

Canada is an oil-rich country in terms of oil reserves, and in the next decade, the country is on the fast track of economic development thanks to their oil sands mines in Alberta, and most of their trade with the Celestial Empire is to trade the oil sands here.

According to statistics, the oil sands reserves in Alberta alone will be larger than Saudi Arabia's oil reserves if all of them are developed, which shows the development potential here.

If this old man's ranch is really like he said, there is an oil and gas field below, then this ranch can be said to be definitely a treasure of feng shui! (To be continued.) )