In the music pool, Han Songlin and the others did not stay for long. Liu Yuyan and Zhang Suyun said that they wanted to take her with them to live on the other side of the river, but Zhang Suyun refused without hesitation.
Liu Yuyan naturally knew the reason for this, and even though she had some thoughts in her mind, she could not show them. She could only take the initiative to find Han Songlin in the evenings, wanting to give birth to another child, and it had to be a boy.
Han Songlin was also very helpless. He felt that having three children at home was enough.
Could it be that they really needed to give birth to a football team?
When he was young, Han Songlin also felt that giving himself a group of women would be enough to create a nation.
As he grew older, he passed the age controlled by hormones.
Moreover, Han Songlin doesn't think that only boys can carry on the family name, girls can too.
Carrying on the family name doesn't necessarily have to be done by boys, and if a grandchild changes his surname to Han, the Han family line won't be broken.
After a few more decades, who cares about the family line?
Back to Jiangzhong, taking a different route.
Han Songlin and the others set off in the morning, and first went to take a look at Pastoral Idyll.
On New Year's Day, neither Liu Mingcheng nor Yang Xiuyin returned to the music pond, but stayed at the breeding factory.
They said that the factory was very busy at the moment and they could not be spared.
When Han Songlin arrived, he saw several Fuxing Hercules trucks pulling grain into the grain storage of the breeding factory.
The entire breeding factory consumes a huge amount of various feeds every day.
It can be roughly calculated that pigs that are being fattened up need at least 4 or 5 catties of feed a day.
If we include the smaller pigs, and just take an average, then each pig needs 3 catties of feed a day, so 10,000 pigs would need 30,000 catties of feed.
That's 15 tonnes of feed.
That's how much feed is used in a single day.
Preparing the feed and other things can no longer be done entirely by hand in the breeding factory.
Machines are used to mix wheat bran, corn flour, rapeseed oil residue, distiller's grains, etc. in the correct proportions.
If you want to feed cows, you also have to feed them grass and other things.
Liu Yuyan chats with the children and Liu Mingcheng and Yang Xiuying, while Han Songlin and Xin Yuansheng wander around the factory together.
A pig farm is a pig farm, so no matter how good the environment is, it will still have the smell that goes with it.
This cannot be avoided.
Pig manure cannot be cleaned up immediately with water after the pigs have defecated.
Basically, it is only flushed out at certain times of the day.
It is only roughly flushed out, so it cannot be said to be flushed out very cleanly.
'There are currently 13,000 pigs, 500 beef cattle and 100 sheep in the entire breeding factory,'
Han Songlin asked curiously, 'Why are there so few sheep?'
'Boss, after we started farming, we found that sheep don't seem to be suitable for factory-style feeding methods like ours!'
Xin Yuansheng had already said that he was prepared to give up farming sheep.
As for cattle, buffaloes are naturally not suitable for captivity, but that's okay, the cattle that were originally raised were specifically for beef.
'Since they are not suitable, we will not raise sheep. How about cattle?'
'Right now we are still in a trial-breeding stage, trying to gain farming experience. After we have gained experience, we will slowly expand the scale of farming.'
Compared to pork, the price of beef has always been much higher.
Because of the high price, beef consumption is naturally much lower than pork.
Han Songlin: 'You must be tired!'
Xin Yuansheng's face broke into a smile: 'I'm not tired, I should be doing this!'
Needless to say, Xin Yuansheng's salary was not low! Han Songlin was not the type of person who was reluctant to share, and the salary he offered Xin Yuansheng was more than enough to satisfy him and enable him to live a good life.
'How much profit is there from a pig these days?'
'It's around 200 to 300 yuan.'
Even if there is a profit of 200 yuan per pig, if 20,000 pigs are sold a year, there will be a profit of 4 million yuan.
It doesn't seem like that much.
The profit from pig farming is not as high as people think, unless you happen to buy piglets when the price of meat is 5 yuan and sell them when the price has skyrocketed to more than 10 yuan, or even 30 yuan.
Under normal circumstances, the profit from pig farming is only 200-300 yuan per head.
Why are people in the countryside no longer willing to raise pigs? It's because after doing the math, they find that after a year of hard work, they haven't made much money.
Farmers who raise pigs at home can make a higher profit, earning 500 to 700 yuan per pig.
However, the feeding period is longer, and labour costs are not included. They also feed a lot of pig grass and no feed, at most some corn flour, bran and the like; the feeding costs are relatively low.
If you really include everything, you won't make much money from a pig.
Pig farming needs to achieve economies of scale, and the larger the scale, the higher the profit.
However, to achieve economies of scale, farmers obviously do not have the capital to do so.
So what should they do?
Pig farming by enterprises will inevitably become the mainstream in the future, and this is the trend of development.
To be honest, at this time, Han Songlin feels that the profit from pig farming seems to be a bit too different from his expectations.
Yes, the difference is quite big.
He had previously thought that if he could raise 10,000 pigs at the same time, he would make a profit of 10 million yuan a year!
But now, it's less than half of what he expected.
'I remember that the factory had a project to produce organic fertilizer from pig manure. How is it going?'
'The organic fertilizer is sold to farmers at cost price.'
If you want to sell organic fertilizer made from pig manure at a high price, you're just thinking too much.
After all, manure is produced by every household in the countryside.
So organic fertilizer made from pig manure simply cannot be sold at a high price. It can only be disposed of at cost, as long as it doesn't lose money.
It can be considered supporting the farmers. After all, Fule Wine Industry now purchases grain, not only in Lechi, but also in other counties and cities in Jiangzhong.
'How effective is organic fertilizer?'
Xin Yuansheng said with a smile, 'Our organic fertilizer is used in combination with chemical fertilizer. Compared to using only chemical fertilizer, it has a significant effect on promoting crop growth.'
In the farmland, you cannot just use chemical fertilizer; you also have to mix it with organic fertilizer.
Han Songlin remembered that at home, they fermented the seed oil residue from kimchi with urine for a period of time (the smell was overpowering), and then mixed it with chemical fertilisers before spreading it in the fields.
At noon, Han Songlin and Liu Yuyan did not eat at the breeding plant.
As they were leaving, Liu Yuyan once again confirmed with Yang Xiuying, 'Mom, are you really not going to Jiangzhong with us?'
'No!' said Yang Xiuyin, looking at her three granddaughters. She told herself to go and enjoy the good life, but in fact she was telling herself to go and look after the children.
If you don't look after them properly, you'll get blamed. I'm not going to suffer, it's so much better here at the fish farm.
As the boss's mother-in-law, no one dares to give her a hard time.
Han Songlin was a little nervous. He really feared that Yang Xiuyin would say yes.
To be honest, Han Songlin really didn't like living with his elders. It always felt a little uncomfortable.
Just take the schedule for example, it was completely different.
When the elders got up, should he get up too or just keep sleeping?