Chapter 505: Negotiation
Jesse and Atwood arrived at Holjim's farm, not far from Sky Farm Vineyard and close to Interstate 140. It's a big farm in the county! The scenery along the way is also more beautiful than his own Sky Farm, but not as magnificent as the Sky Farm looks.
After all, Sky Farm is close to Yosemi National Park, and Stream Farm is a plain area with many surrounding farms and pastures, so it doesn't hurt if there is less grandeur, especially the cattle herd at Stream Farm looks like there is a sense of boundlessness compared to the small number of Sky Farm.
Jessie Chou saw Holjim, who looked a little thinner than the last time they met. Simple jeans with a shirt and a cowboy hat, riding a chestnut horse stood there, and after seeing them, Holjim rode over.
"Hello, Mr. Zhou! And Atwood, how are you! Holjim spoke politely, his face still a little haggard, but he tried to be as energetic as he could see them.
Jessie Chou exchanged a few casual greetings with him, and then several people rode into the farm. Jessie Chou walked along the way, and by the way, he also took a look at the situation and soil condition of the farm.
Holjim Jane also began to sell it: "My farm is definitely a high-quality farm on the market in California, with an average of five cattle per acre. For example, the farm not far from me, because of the hills, can only reach one cow per acre, and to those medium-quality farms, you can only raise one cow per ten acres. ”
Jessie Chou listened to Holjim's speech, squatted down and plucked a piece of grass to take a look. The fresh pasture has very plump roots and looks very watery. Atwood was also watching, but not until he did it, he already knew about the situation on the farm.
"Looks good!" Jesse Chou said towards Atwood. "It's true that the land at Stream Farm is not much worse than ours. And also with the fact that they have a higher grazing density than ours, which is a really remarkable thing. ”
Holjim was also happy to see what his old neighbor was saying. The face that had become haggard because of family problems also shone with a little bit of sunshine.
"Although the water rights of our farm are not as much as the Sky Farm, but next to the stream farm is close to Lake Turlock, if you want to be able in the future, you can buy the old Tom's farm, every year he always runs out of water, even in times of drought, it is the richest!" Holjim said with a look of envy.
A borderless prairie, a forest, and herds of cattle or sheep grazing on the meadows, mostly white, black, brown, red, and a mixture of colors. It's really beautiful, it's like a real farm, much more professional than your own.
Jessie Chou thought and looked at Holjim: "Mr. Jim, is that what the other things on your farm do?" ”
Seeing Zhou Jiexi ask this, he knew that Zhou Jiexi was interesting, and immediately came to his senses: "Don't talk about the irrigation systems on the farm, I have basically installed two-thirds of the irrigation system, and as for the remaining tractors and rice machine lawn mowers, etc., they can also be given to you!" ”
Atwood also nodded to Jessie Chou, indicating that the situation was good!
Jessie Zhou also nodded and looked at Holjim: "Although you are good, but Mr. Jim, I really don't need your house, I already have a very haode house, even if I don't live in this one every year, but I still need to find someone to take care of it, which is a lot of expenses." "If you want to bargain, you have to say that people are not good, and Zhou Jesse is not good at anything else, and the problem of the house is simple.
Holjim's heart was also shaken when he heard that Jesse Chou would maintain the house every year. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "Mr. Zhou, what you said is very reasonable, I think so, I can lower it a little appropriately, as long as you promise not to abandon that house, it has been here for a long time!"
Jessie Zhou squinted and smiled: "Of course, I can guarantee this, your stone and wood house looks very beautiful, even if I don't live it, I can't bear to abandon him." ”
Holjim nodded.
"What about your cattle? Are you going to take them all to the auction house and auction them off? Jesse asked Holjim.
"My friend is already planning to take some of it, and the rest may be given to cattle brokers in batches so that they can help dispose of it in the national bull market." Holjim paused for a moment, "However, if you need it, it's the best, and I don't have to pay a commission to the agent!" "He recently knew that Jesse Chou's farm was out to buy cattle, and he just missed the time, otherwise it would be better to sell a batch to them.
Jesse Zhou also nodded hesitantly: "Yes, I still want to increase the number of cattle on the farm, my pasture over there is so good, but there are too few cattle, and I can't even beat the number of ten cattle per acre, and now there is a lot of grass that can only be wasted." For him, although he can make money by selling pasture, where is it cost-effective and profitable to raise his own cattle!
"Well, we do need beef cattle on our farm, and now there are only more than 30,000 cattle, and we have about 260,000 acres of land, excluding forests, swamps, hills, orchards, plantations, etc. There are about 100,000 grazing land left, and it is only close to 30,000 cattle so far, and the density is too small. Saying that, Atwood still looked pity, looked at Jessie Chou and smiled bitterly, and said in his heart that this old guy was beating his idea again.
Holjim's face was wonderful when he heard this, knowing that people don't take land seriously, but he didn't expect it to be such a waste. If you have to raise cattle, how much more can you earn every year? Although the years have not been too good in recent years, it is really a loser that Haode has not raised in those years.
Jessie Chou looked at Holjim's eyes and looked at him a little weirdly, with a little chilly feeling: "It's not my problem, I didn't take over this farm before, Old Man Bud just wants a resort, you know, he doesn't care!" As he spoke, Jessie Chou shrugged his shoulders.
"Yes! Looks like I'm overthinking! Hearing this, Holjim also breathed a sigh of relief, people don't need to rely on this to eat, plus when the year is not good, they can only earn a little hard-earned money, an income of 1,000 to 2,000 dollars per cow, and the more you raise, the more you can earn.
Ordinary kind of family farms, according to this year's market price, the purchase price per pound of beef is about 1.25 US dollars, and if a cow is sold for more than 1,100 US dollars, the cost will be more than 400 US dollars, and the profit will be more than 600 US dollars at most.
The more cattle a large farmer has, the lower the cost is, and the more he earns when he slaughters it. In addition, there are many advantages to reaching an agreement with a slaughtered beef packing company compared to a family farm and a small farmer. There are also several large farmers who have joined forces to set up slaughtering companies and beef packaging, not to bird your big slaughtering companies, in terms of profits, it will be more advantageous!
In addition, large farmers are able to achieve most of their self-sufficiency in terms of feed, and they are more resilient to risks in the livestock food market. Jesse's Sky Farm last week is a typical example, completely self-sufficient, and the world does not threaten the farm with the price of feed rising as you go. If you're lucky, you'll be able to make more money than usual.
Jesse Chou saw that this was a bit of an obstacle to the atmosphere, so he planned to change the topic to talk about it to ease the atmosphere, and everyone thought it was a little strange just now. "Mr. Jim, I'd like to buy your farm, I wonder what you think?"
"Of course you can, in Jihua, you are definitely the most haode choice, I can't deny that!" Holjim said quickly. What he didn't say was that Atwood had penetrated with him, and only his boss could give him tens of millions of dollars in cash at once. Everyone else basically wants him to talk to the bank for a while.
The corners of Jessie Chou's mouth were slightly xiangshang, something expected, Atwood had just told him, and Holjim was very happy that he could take out cash.
After the recent new batch of watermelons matured, it brought him more than 60 million incomes, and he was afraid that too many would cause the market to flood, so Zhou Jiexi expanded the output of watermelon green elves, and denied the last jihua, and slowly decided how much to increase in the future.
But if you do a lot of calculations, about four times a year, that little bit of maintenance fee can hardly be counted, and it can bring in about 200 million US dollars of income every year, of course, this is money that is not taxed. If you spend it quickly, you can get it back, and the watermelon that was unintentionally planted is now really a big gold mine on the farm.
"Mr. Xiexie, Mr. Jim, you trust, but you are right, I think the people who can trade with you as soon as possible, among the people who are willing to buy your farm, I am definitely the most haode choice, as long as the deal is made, I will be able to give you money immediately." Jessie Chou said with a smile, the more he talked, the more domineering he became!
"That's really great!" When Holjim heard Jesse Chou's guarantee, he immediately said happily. Then he also made some guarantees: "As long as Mr. Zhou's conditions are reasonable, I think I can make a little concession!" ”
Jessie Chou and Atwood nodded secretly, sure enough, it was an old cowboy, which was refreshing. Every second was assured, and of course it had to do with Atwood, the old man's character was very respected in the area.