American Ranch

Chapter 105 Organic Certification 【Please recommend, bookmark】

Deliver 30 lambs and 5 adult sheep within 1 months, all of which must be Dorper sheep.

Although the contract does not stipulate that it must pass the certification of an organic food certification agency, the data in all aspects are the standards of organic meat...

If the sheep are not fed with forage or grain, the mutton produced must be organic mutton.

Organic food has stricter requirements and higher grades than green food, and its main markets are also in developed countries.Organic food has strict requirements on the atmosphere, water and soil...

There are also strict requirements for feeding.

The first requirement, the venue.

For Dorper sheep, the use of antibiotics is regulated within a very small range, so the requirements for the site are extremely high, and a more relaxed site is needed.Each feeding area has strict quantity requirements, and each feeding area has a large interval...

30 months, more than two years.The area of ​​pastures in river valleys is completely sufficient. The problem is to meet the organic meat standard, and the area of ​​breeding areas is not enough.

Especially for breeding farms, if they want to meet the organic standards, they have to start planning in the fetal breeding. Fortunately, they just got a 500 million signing bonus.

While Brett was busy introducing sheep breeds, he further planned the breeding area.

"Boss, the breeding area, there is not enough land. I am going to buy a few small pastures in the lower reaches of the Moro River Valley. What do you think?"

"Okay." Chen Mo also looked at the purchase list during this period and nodded.

"Those ranches are very small. I have talked to them. As long as we are willing to hire them, these ranches are willing to sell."

Chen Mo knows that there are several small pastures in the downstream. The total area does not exceed 1500 acres. They are all family-owned pastures, and each pasture is hundreds of thousands.

A small-scale family ranch, working hard throughout the year and earning little money.

It will cost about 500 million to buy them all, and those ranches are just a few broken houses...

"How about the Santana Valley Ranch?" This is a high-quality valley ranch, located in the Santana Valley in the south of the lower Moro River Valley, where the land is fertile and there is a large reservoir in the upper reaches of the valley. It can be developed as a high-quality farm The land area is about 4500 acres.

"Only for rent, not for sale. The annual rent is 120 million, with a lease term of ten years." Bright shook his head.

Chen Mo is helpless, the Santana Ranch, Chen Mo's valuation is 3500 million US dollars.That location is too remote...Chen Mo wants to buy it to raise Brett cattle and Wagyu cattle...

"Okay, I bought a few small pastures in the lower reaches of the river valley. The land area is enough to use, so let's ignore it." Chen Mo opened the purchase contract for Dorper sheep signed during this period, and said: "The purebred and cattle embryos have been contacted. No?"

"I've got in touch, and it will be delivered next month."

There were only 175 embryos and the asking price was $105 million.Australian wagyu embryos are much cheaper and not easy to buy.And American Wagyu, those who require pedigree, can't buy it at all...

Dorper sheep, lambs - 1300.Adult ewes - 4531.Rams - 139.Embryos - 2000 pieces.

Some of them were purchased by Chen Mo before...

Now, there is only 408 million US dollars left in the ranch account, and the money is spent like running water, which is not a suitable description.

"Are you going to pay in installments for those small ranches?" Chen Mo said.

"Of course. The down payment is 130 million...then it will be paid in three years."

"OK."

Organic farming is just a concept... The most important thing is to reduce the dosage of various antibiotics, vaccines should be injected or not... reduce antibiotics, it should be said that if antibiotics are not used, sheep are prone to diseases.In order to reduce the occurrence of diseases, both breeding areas and breeding areas need large intervals...

Breeding manuals are also different from ordinary pastures, requiring not only a large site, but also more manpower.

For example, postgraduates and doctoral students majoring in animal husbandry, the ranch has hired many more.There are 9 master students and 5 doctoral students.After these became regular employees of the ranch, they all started with a monthly salary of [-] yuan...

Then there is the feed source.For organic meat, the source of feed must also be organic. Otherwise, if you eat too many grains with pesticide residues, it will be difficult for the meat quality to meet the standard.

Fortunately, there is space for alfalfa grass, which has a super high protein content and is directly the best natural feed.Bright is also planning to divide the areas. Some areas are directly fed with alfalfa, and some areas are fed with alfalfa mixed with organic grains to see the different effects.

The initial stage of organic pastures is the most difficult. After a few years to cultivate a strong breeding herd, the situation will be much better.

Bright's cell phone rang, and the convoy that brought the flock over called John and Cons and asked them to take over the flock.

Cons, a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley.The Berkeley campus is more famous, but when it comes to agriculture, the Davis campus is even better.Kang Si graduated from the Berkeley campus, a doctoral student, environmental engineering, and won an achievement award in organic chemistry.Bright arranged for him to be the director of environmental planning for the River Valley Ranch, responsible for park planning, planting, and environmental supervision of the ranch area.

After hanging up the phone, Brett got up and made a cup of coffee for Chen Mo: "When are you going back to China?"

"Tomorrow, I can't bear to part with you." Chen Mo smiled and took the coffee brought by Brett.

Brett glanced at Chen Mo: "Before you leave, get a stamp, the down payment for the purchase of the small ranch in the lower reaches of the Moro River. There is another thing, many of the Dorper sheep in the breeding area are producing milk."

Some Dorper sheep are just born, and the number exceeds 1.

"I contacted Bai Xiaoou, and Tangxia Yipin should need goat milk. Weilun Catering and Barbona Restaurant, they must also need it. If they can reach a cooperation, it will be a good fortune."

Milk is the most important by-product of the breeding base. If it is done well, the value of the output will be the main product.Especially organic milk, the price is very expensive...

There are very few organic milks in the United States. Fresh organic milk is available on Amazon. Milk with an organic label is more expensive than beef.

Both milk and goat milk can bring a lot of income to the ranch.

In addition, the ranch will also produce organic fertilizers. After all, a large number of high-end talents have been invited...

"When?" Brett asked.

"It should wait, after you finish the Spring Festival." Chen Mo shrugged: "Have you submitted the application report for the organic ranch? Move faster."

"Don't worry about my work, it has been submitted."

Obtaining USDA organic pasture certification is not something that can be accomplished in a short period of time.The first is to write a report and tell the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture) Organic Products Office that I am going to carry out organic management here...

'Organic' is a labeling term that refers to those products produced by approved methods.

The first is to submit its organic product management system documents and some other materials to the certification body.Then, the certification body will go to the site for review after receiving the materials... If they pass, they will issue an organic certification certificate here, but it is usually not so easy.With organic-certified farms and ranches, the products produced are not necessarily organic. If you want to affix a green label, you have to test the products...

There are many types of USDA's organic label, and the best one is '[-]% organic'.Then there's 'Organic', organic products, organic ingredients...

Now submit the materials to the site for review, it is estimated that it will be June or July.

(End of this chapter)