Fortunately, this is the Jiangnan region, and although it is cold in winter, there is still no shortage of forage for the livestock to eat.

Now is the time of scarcity, and every household is short of food. Lu Renbing, through his father-in-law's family who worked in the Food Bureau, contacted a batch of soybean cakes, rapeseed cakes, and cottonseed cakes.

These are the remaining products after oil extraction, except for soybean cake, the other two things have a certain toxicity, and they are rarely used in animal feed in this era.

It's easier to get the price and cheaper, and when Lu Renbing was more idle before, he knew a little about the detoxification process of these things.

Now it can be used to solve urgent needs. These things are the result of decades of research in the animal husbandry industry and feed industry in later generations, and of course they are not the ones that can be mastered by illiterate farmers in this era.

Therefore, many people know that piglets and chickens will die if they eat cottonseed meal, but they don't know the reason, rapeseed meal is slightly less toxic, but they can't eat more.

The proportion of additions is all knowledge, and these core secrets, of course, belong to Lu Renbing himself.

Anyway, the third mutual aid group in Xujia Village began a vigorous production. The children are responsible for herding sheep, chickens, and ducks.

Part of the strong labor goes to work in the fields, ploughing the land, weeding or something, and is responsible for feeding the pigs and cooking.

Lu Renbi, with the rest of the people, began to build a large-scale breeding site.

First of all, the farm is built on the scale of 1,000 pigs, and the land is an abandoned land that belongs to the village that is difficult to cultivate.

Lu Renbing borrowed five acres of such waste land at the price of a fat pig and 20 chickens in the village at the end of the year.

Leveling the land, rammed earth for walls, logging for fences, digging drainage canals, building septic tanks, feed rooms, disinfection rooms, medical rooms, warehouses, offices.

Although the materials are rudimentary, they are well equipped. In order to accumulate water in the rainy season, Lu Renbing deliberately raised the foundation. The ground is also compacted with cinder lime to meet the basic drying requirements.

Now the farm can not do completely closed management, in order to save feed, or to release out to eat bug grass seeds every day.

So Lu Renbing didn't build a limit pen for the pigs or anything. Just encircled an acre of vacant land for their activities, and they were much happier than their peers in later generations.

Pig farms, chicken farms, duck farms, goose farms, and a rabbit farm were also built, all of which opened independently. An additional cow peng, donkey shed, and mule shed were also built. It took more than a month to complete the project.

When Lu Renbing led a group of people to work hard, the people of the whole village did not believe that their group could be built.

Even if it is built, it will not be able to operate, and the problem of feed diseases alone can crush people.

Not only did the people in the village not believe it, but even the people of the three groups did not believe it. However, they are all forced to operate by huge debts and oppression.

Lu Renbing doesn't mind what people say, as long as they work hard. After all the buildings are completed, after that, the number of piglets, chickens, and ducks that Lu Renbing bought before will not be able to keep up.

I need to keep buying, but now I don't have the money. The bean cakes that Lu Renbing bought with his father-in-law have arrived, and they are piled up in the warehouse, which needs to be dealt with urgently, and it also costs money.

These things are not difficult for Lu Renbing. He first went to the bazaar, bought chickens, ducks, geese, pigs, and more than 20 pairs of rabbits, and filled the shelves of the farm first.

Then, with a letter of introduction, he first went to the relevant departments in the town, and then to the credit union, and then to the county unit in charge of non-staple food procurement, and asked their leaders to visit his farm.

In this era, the unified purchase and sales have just entered the discussion, and it will be fully implemented at the end of the year. Grain and non-staple food procurement departments at all levels also have to compete with the private traders who exist in the market.

They were under a lot of purchasing pressure, so they were happy to hear that Lu Renbing had built a large-scale farm and was willing to sign an exclusive supply contract with them.

But they also need to go to the scene to implement the situation, of course Lu Renbing agreed, and went with the non-staple food procurement cadres, as well as the leaders in charge of agricultural and sideline production, which of course Lu Renbing invited.

Under his own rule, there is a new thing like a collective-scale farm, and the leaders are still very willing to go to the site for inspection.

The current leading cadres are very pragmatic in their work style, and the gate of the yamen has not yet been as difficult to enter as it has been in later generations.

So Lu Renbing took a bunch of leaders to the newly built farm.

Lu Renbing had already informed the village chief in advance, so when Lu Renbing drove the ox cart back and brought back a group of leaders, when he came to visit, the village chief was already dressed and waiting at the farm.

A sign had been hung at the door of the farm, but it was covered by Lu Renbing with a red cloth. There were also a few people next to him dragging a red ribbon with a hydrangea tied to it. This is, of course, for the leaders to show their faces.

This is not very popular in this era, so when Lu Renbing explained it to these leaders, everyone thought it was very novel.

Then in the warm applause of all the members of the third mutual aid group of Xujia Village, the leaders of the county, town and village levels cut the ribbon and unveiled the curtain for the Xujia Village Farm.

Lu Renbing also invited a photographer from the county to take pictures of everyone.

In the sound of firecrackers, Lu Renbing asked these leaders to put on white coats, sanitary hats, and rubber shoes, and then sprayed them with disinfectant water.

Everything looked formal, and the leaders were satisfied.

Then Lu Renbing took the leaders to visit the pig farm, the chicken, duck and goose farm, and the rabbit farm in turn.

The leaders were very satisfied, and when they asked Lu Renbing how he had built such a large-scale farm, Lu Renbing specifically mentioned the strong support of the town leaders and village heads, especially the loans from the town's credit cooperatives.

Leaders at all levels were very satisfied, and when asked Lu Renbing what difficulties he had, Lu Renbing also politely said that the pressure on feed and funds was the problem.

But he also said that he has the ability to solve these difficulties and will not cause problems for the organization.

The leader was very satisfied, and then approved a note so that he could go to the grain depot to buy soybean cake feed grain, and the leader of the non-staple food bureau also signed a reimbursement contract with the Xujiacun farm on the spot, and paid part of the money in advance.

The leaders of the credit union were even happier to promise Lu Renbing how much he would lend.

Then Lu Renbing retained the leaders at all levels to have a working meal on the farm, and the leaders at all levels also paid for the meal, and they were all happy.

What followed was a logical affair, and Lu Renbing's farm became famous, became the political achievements of leaders at all levels, and was also published in provincial-level newspapers, becoming an advanced model of socialist rural work in those years.

Awards, honors, are here, and the problem of loan feed and grain has also been solved.