Chapter 71: The First Corn Harvest
It is not impossible to pull out the ground one by one, and the corn stalks of these 30 acres of land are not a big job for the two robots.
With the development of science and technology today, wouldn't it be too low for me to let two of the most advanced intelligent robots do the most primitive work?
What to do with the pulled straw? It's useless to put it in space, I just transport it to the real world and have no place to store it, it becomes garbage, and I need manpower, material and financial resources to deal with it, and the gains outweigh the losses.
I plan to continue planting after harvesting this wave of corn, and I will continue to do this when it is impossible to harvest again.
So, I thought about mechanization.
A check on the Internet shows that there are combine harvesters sold in the provincial capital, and what excites me even more is that it is not diesel burned, but electrically driven. This kind of machine is just right for working on a small island in space, which has solar panels and is very convenient for charging.
I immediately drove to the provincial capital, came to the agricultural machinery market, and bought an electric combine harvester to harvest corn. I pretended to climb into the cab, lit the fire, drove out into the street in fear, found a place where no one was, and sent into space.
When I told them it was a combine, Rufeng quickly understood, climbed into the cab, and started to drive it very skillfully.
The wheels rolled into the cornfields.
The corn cobs had been broken beforehand, and the harvester made a trip through the field, mainly to break the stalks.
The harvester is running back and forth in the field. Ruxue was also very excited when she looked at it, and she had to go up for a test drive. Rufeng took the initiative to give up his seat, and the two robots drove for a while, just like playing at home, and soon finished beating the corn stalks of 30 acres of land.
The land also needs to be ploughed again, otherwise it cannot be replanted. I turned around several in the agricultural machinery market and found a large tractor that could plow the land. The reason why it is so difficult to find is not that there is no cultivator on the market, but that it is difficult to find electric drives. This machine is an emerging product and is in the promotion stage.
I immediately bought one and sent it into space.
Like the wind and snow, the car drove again, and soon the land was finished.
When she knew that I was going to continue growing corn, Ruxue begged me for corn seeds.
Since I wanted to do mechanized farming, I could no longer use the primitive method of pit sowing seeds, so I simply bought an electrically driven corn planter.
Thinking that I would continue to plant corn one after another, I bought a batch of corn seeds at the seed company in the provincial capital at one time, saving me from having to buy them every few days.
Perhaps because they thought it was more fun to drive a tractor, they planted corn seeds on the same day.
While they were planting, I looked at the large pile of corn in the warehouse and wondered what to do with it.
Thinking that a large amount of corn will be harvested in the future, it is necessary to find a suitable purchasing unit, as close to Loess County as possible, at least to save transportation costs.
So, I drove back to Loess County. There is a feed mill in the county, and corn is purchased at an open price on weekdays. This has made it easy for me.
In detail, the price is ok, higher than I expected.
I'm a bit of a nerve-wracker about how to transport this corn.
The corn in the warehouse has not yet been threshed, and it is impossible to transport them out one by one, which does not exhaust me to death. Even if it is packed in a woven bag, it will be a joke when it is pulled to the feed mill. People will ask for the woven bag to be untied and poured out to facilitate threshing. I can't do that either.
To get out of space, it's best to load the corn directly into a truck. After thinking about it, I finally came up with a more appropriate plan.
Back at the cannery, I called the manager of the team that had delivered me construction materials the other day and asked me to hire a truck.
This guy was happy, and 10 minutes later a dump truck drove up.
I personally guided at the door of warehouse No. 1 and asked the driver to drive the car in, park, and the driver came down and asked me what goods I was pulling.
"Corn."
"Where's the goods?"
How could I possibly tell him that the corn was in space?
"You don't have to worry about the goods, and they will be loaded into the car in a while. You go to the finance to pay for the freight first. ”
Before the driver arrived, I asked him to open the ticket. I signed on the spot, the driver went to finance, and taking advantage of this opportunity, I took the dump truck into the space.
Without the right tools, the speed of loading a car with only one pair of hands is like wind and snow. I heard a continuous crackling sound, and the corn fell into the car one by one. I stood by and looked dazzled, and felt that it would only take ten minutes to fill the car.
I took the truck out of the space again and returned to Warehouse 1.
When the driver came back, he didn't believe it when he heard that the corn had been loaded, so he climbed on the roof of the car himself, saw a cart full of corn, and wondered. Loaded in just a few minutes? What puzzled him the most was that he didn't see a single corn cob in the warehouse, not even a grain of corn. And ask me where this corn came from?
I had a serious expression.
"Conjured up by trick."
Of course, the driver didn't believe it.
"The boss is really joking!"
"It doesn't matter if you're joking or not, the important thing is that you have to pull the goods to me to the feed mill so that your task can be completed."
The driver drove away, and he never knew where the corn came from or who had loaded it into the car, but he delivered it to my destination anyway.
And I drove behind. After unloading the truck, the bill was settled with the feed mill, and the truck driver drove away.
Looking at the truck in the distance, I was somewhat helpless. This cart pulled 15 tons of corn, and there was almost all that in the space. I can't use the same car for a second trip on the same day, and I have no reason to support him to go to finance and use this gap to load the car.
The second car can only be said tomorrow.
At the same time, I thought of another important thing. Every time the grain is hauled, these drivers are taken into account, which driver will also have questions, where does the corn come from? How to load the car? There are many people, and these secrets of mine will be passed on to the society.
With a heart, I drove to the Loess County Agricultural Machinery Company. When asked, there are still electrically driven dump trucks, but the tonnage is smaller, and it can only pull 8 tons. Regardless of three, seven, twenty-one, I immediately bought one and sent it into the space.
The car was filled with wind and snow, and I let the wind go out of the space with the car. I entered the space with my car on a remote street near the agricultural machinery company, and when I came out, I still landed here, without resorting to the cannery's No. 1 warehouse, but avoiding many eyes and ears.
After that, I led the way in front, followed by the wind and handed over the second truckload of corn to the feed mill.
As it was concocted, a third car was pulled.
Three truckloads of corn totaled 31 tons, a calculation of the account was shocked, the average per mu of land more than 2,000 pounds of corn, than the reality of the mu yield nearly doubled.
What is even more gratifying to me is that when the corn is delivered, my corn is in the best condition, the corn cob is not only thick, but also long, the kernels are round and full, no pests are found from beginning to end, and the moisture is also within the standard, and it is sold at the highest price. Excluding the cost of hiring a car and seed money, I made a net profit of 70,000 yuan.
The account is not unclear, and it is shocking. Although the money earned by these three truckloads of corn is less than a fraction of the money earned by wholesale vegetables and fresh fish in the morning, the workload is different.
I mean, my workload is different. Wholesale vegetables, I have to get up early every day and work hard all morning. Every day, no matter how much money I make, I'm a little tired now.
Growing corn is different, I only need half a day in 10 days, and the key is that I can save a lot of time to do something else.
This gave me the idea to continue expanding the corn acreage.