American Ranch

Chapter 15 Improved Pasture
Qin Yi nodded, Angus cattle are indeed not tall, reaching to the waist.

"How many years has the alfalfa in the pasture grown?"

Qin Yi has sorted out the information. Alfalfa is a perennial grass with wide adaptability. It can grow in various terrains and soils. It can generally grow for more than ten years. It grows best six years after sowing. It is grown here in Montana. One of several pastures with a wide area.This kind of forage has high nutritional value and high yield. After harvesting, it is silaged or made into hay powder for sale in winter. It is an important source of income for pastures.

"The current alfalfa has been growing for 8 years, and it can be used for another two years. However, there is a severe drought this year. Although the pasture has the Sun River, it is somewhat affected."

Qin Yi looked at the stems and leaves of the alfalfa grass, then squatted down and peeled off the leaves to look at the grass roots.

"Ryan, when is the best time to re-sow grass seeds?"

"It can be planted now, or it can be planted in spring. It takes more than ten days for alfalfa seeds to grow from germination to growth, but it is not suitable to re-seed now, as severe drought may affect the growth of seedlings."

Ryan saw that the boss had the idea of ​​re-sowing the pasture, and it was not surprising. The current pasture grows worse and worse. If the grass is re-sown, this year and next year will be the best, because the current cattle herd is small and easy to resettle. , the workload is small.

Qin Yi didn't make a statement, but secretly made a decision in his heart.

Afterwards, he didn't talk about re-sowing the pasture. Qin Yi imitated the cowboy and flicked his horsewhip, driving the cows to change pastures.Looking at the alfalfa that had been eaten by cows on the pasture, Qin Yi was a little curious. It would take a few days for it to recover, so he asked Ryan.

"3 or 4 days. In the past, when the herd was large, they usually came to graze every 3 or 4 days. Now I can't eat so much. I only set aside a small part for grazing, and the rest are harvested. Grass is ready." Speaking of harvesting, Ryan pointed to the direction of the Rocky Mountains and the farm with his horsewhip, "It's the pastures in these two directions, depending on the growth of the pasture, harvest once every 20 to 30 days."

Qin Yi was very interested in harvesting pasture. Of course, he was interested in those large lawn mowers. Qin Yi had seen the domineering appearance before, and said to Ryan with great anticipation: "How long will it take to harvest pasture? I will also harvest next time." Go see."

When Ryan saw Qin Yi's expression, he knew what his plan was. Indeed, the large lawn mower has a domineering appearance and complete functions. It has satellite positioning and automatic driving. The cab also has audio and drinks. When harvesting pasture, just set the Good parameters are enough, the driver can easily listen to music and drinks, and saves a lot of effort compared to small and medium-sized lawn mowers. Not only Qin Yi is interested, but most people want to drive.

Ryan smiled: "I'll go to see the growth tomorrow, but I think it will take a few days to come, and I will tell you in advance when the time comes."

While walking and chatting, we soon arrived at another pasture.The cows graze freely, and a few cowboys ride around with their cattle dogs around to prevent the cows from getting too far away from the herd.

Throughout the afternoon, Qin Yi followed the herds and chatted with several cowboys. The atmosphere was relaxed and the relationship was much closer.Returning to the main house at night, Qin Yi didn't cook. He first went to the warehouse to get some alfalfa seeds, and went back to the bedroom to enter the space.

When I came to the apple tree, the ground that was cleared yesterday was bare. The fruits this time were not yet ripe, and the vegetable seedlings from yesterday were still piled aside, so there was no need to clean them up again.Qin Yi directly sprinkled the alfalfa seeds on the ground, watching the alfalfa grow suddenly, he was not in a hurry to go out, and just waited for it to bloom and bear fruit, and the seeds matured.

After a while, the wheat-sized seeds finally matured and fell all over the ground. This was unexpected by Qin Yi. He had no choice but to go out quickly, ran to the warehouse to take out the broom and basket, and went back to the space to work for a long time. Finally, he cleaned up. Seeing that the small basket was full, Qin Yi weighed it, it must weigh forty to fifty catties.

It's almost done, let's plant it first to see how the improved grass grows.

He drove out of the F150 Ford pickup truck, loaded the shovel and basket, and put a bucket on it. Qin Yi didn't delay, and drove to the depths of the pasture without delay.At the place where the animals were grazing in the afternoon, Qin Yi stopped, went to the back seat, picked up the bucket, returned to the driver's seat, entered the space, and after a while, Qin Yi came out with a bucket of spiritual spring water.

I got out of the car again, grabbed a handful of pasture seeds and sprinkled them on the pasture, and sprinkled some spiritual spring water on them. Immediately, the seeds germinated and swelled, and the original alfalfa grass absorbed the spiritual spring water and grew faster.

But in the end, there is no room for improved seeds. Within a few minutes, the seedlings grew up, and they grew taller than the old grass, with large and thick leaves. It seemed that the quality of the improved seeds was obviously much better.

Qin Yi sprinkled some spiritual spring water again, and the improved pastures bloomed and bear fruit in a short while, only the old pastures only had more flower buds. Seeing this, Qin Yi knew that the old alfalfas could not compete with the improved pastures, and most of the spiritual spring water Absorbed by Improved Grass.

In fact, in the underground that Qin Yi couldn't see, the roots of the improved grass had undergone tremendous changes.The first is that the roots become thicker and go deeper into the ground, so that the improved pasture can get more water than the old pasture, and the current severe drought has no effect.

Maybe in a few days, the old pasture will have no room to live, and it will be slowly robbed of water by the new pasture and become dry!

Another change, if Qin Yi might notice during the day, the roots of the improved alfalfa extend far, break out of the ground to form plants, center on the plant grown from seeds, and grow many side plants around it, it seems that in the future You don't need so many improved seeds to fill the pasture.

After a while, the mature seeds fell to the ground, and Qin Yi sprinkled the spiritual spring water again, slowly, the seeds began to repeat the phenomenon that Qin Yi had observed just now.Make a mark on the detailed pasture map on the mobile phone, and it will be easy to find a place for watering in the future. Qin Yi drives in the car satisfied, and changes to a pasture to continue planting improved grass species.

After working for several hours, Qin Yi felt tired even with his physical strength. Fortunately, the seeds cultivated this time were finished and he could rest. On the way back, Qin Yi calculated that one bucket of water a night, every three to five Water once every day, and the current pasture can be covered almost a month.

Qin Yi was very happy. When he laid out the fruit trees in Shennongjia, he designed a big plan. The first stage was divided into three steps.

Buying pastures, this has been successfully implemented; improving pastures; it is now being implemented, and the third step can be carried out after the improvement is completed, and then the second stage, of course, the second stage is still far away, let’s not think about it, go home and cook , It's almost 12 o'clock at night.

Tired after a busy day, Qin Yi took a shower and went to bed after eating casually.At 6:[-] the next morning, Qin Yi got up on time. After all, his physical and mental strength was there, and he recovered after a short rest.

Dude wakes up so early, I'm afraid there are not many young people in China, old men and old ladies are so early, but people are exercising in the morning to keep healthy, we are working, so we still can't compare with buddies, haha, we are hardworking young people!

After Qin Yi washed up, he looked at the handsome guy in the mirror, grinned at him, turned around, went to the living room, picked up his cowboy hat and went out.

What?What do you mean?He was sleeping late, and now he couldn't wake up at this point. Qin Yi was worried that if he was thrown into the wild now, would this fat guy who was used to enjoying himself survive.

After arriving at the racecourse within 2 minutes, Rachel was already brushing the horses. This girl is really nice, and she can get up early every day.Qin Yi and Ruiqier greeted each other, and pulled out Xiao Hei to brush the horse. Xiao Hei rubbed his head against Qin Yi's arm, staring at him with wide eyes.

"What's the matter, you haven't missed me all night?" Qin Yi touched the horse's face, a little puzzled.

"Pfft!"

Rachel couldn't help laughing when she heard what Qin Yi said, "Yi, Xiao Hei wants carrots! Horses like to eat carrots in the morning."

Qin Yi rubbed his nose, a little speechless, thinking that he was thinking about himself, a waste of emotion!

"Like this, I really don't know. I don't have any carrots there. I'll plant some in the vegetable field in the morning."

"I brought carrots, this one is for Xiao Hei, you feed it!" Rachel took out a carrot from the small warehouse as she had expected.

In fact, it’s no wonder. I just learned to ride a horse and I haven’t touched it before. It’s normal not to know. Moreover, I don’t have to eat it if I like it. It’s okay if I don’t feed it.

Qin Yi accepted the compliment: "Thank you, Rachel, you are such a caring girl!"

Rachel accepted Qin Yi's compliment with a smile, and went to brush the horse seriously.

After feeding Xiao Hei, Qin Yi also began to brush the horse, first with a hard brush and then with a soft brush, and finally blow dry, put on a saddle sweat pad or something, ride Xiao Hei for two laps, and let Xiao Hei eat when he was sweating Grass, go back and cook by yourself.

After breakfast at 7 o'clock, I was planning to ride Xiaohei to see the improved pasture. The phone rang, and I picked it up and saw that it was Ye Fang. This guy might not be idle anymore!
Qin Yi smiled and shook his head to answer the phone: "Third brother, what's the matter?"

"Xiao Yizi woke up? It's pretty early!" Ye Fang's loud voice was very penetrating, and Qin Yi hurriedly put the phone away.

"I got up at 6 o'clock. The negative oxygen ion content in the air in the morning exceeds the standard. Besides, I can ride a horse freely. Sleeping late is a waste!"

"It's only been a few days since I've been able to gallop freely on a horse. It's okay buddy. Are you busy? If not, I'll go and play for a few days. I used to ride horses at the racecourse. How can it be so refreshing to come to the prairie!" Ye Fang was grinning, and when it came to playing, he was particularly energetic.

"It's nothing busy, and it's not a short-term matter. When come over, I'll pick you up."

Improving pastures, changing farms to pastures, are not things that can be effective in the short term.

"In a few days, I have arranged to call you here. Did you call the boss and the second?"

Qin Yi thought for a while, he really should make a call, this time it would be better to play with Ye Fang, "Not yet, I'll call later."

"Then it's all right, you make a list of the delicious and interesting things on the ranch, and I'll come one by one when I get there, haha!" After finishing speaking, he hung up the phone.

Qin Yi shook his head, what to eat?Fruits, vegetables, and beef are not very good now. What I play is horse riding, fishing, and boat trips on the Sun River. By the way, I may also go to see wild white-tailed deer and flocks of birds.

Speaking of white-tailed deer and flocks of birds, Qin Yi thought of hunting again, but forgot, I haven’t visited the gun shop for a few days, this is Montana, there are a lot of pastures, there are gray wolves and brown bears, I need to order some goods Protect yourself!
Come on, go to Augusta to see tomorrow.

I called Wang Xixi and Fang Yue and told them that I won a big prize in Shennongjia and bought a ranch in the United States and let them come and play. Both of them expressed their envy, jealousy and hatred, but they can't come recently. They have to work and plan to During the National Day, a group came to eat the big family.

Qin Yi, on the other hand, showed a look of indifference, and welcomed the two to come quickly.An hour of chatting and farting passed, and he hung up the phone. Qin Yi went out to find Xiao Hei, and rode to see the improved grass.

(End of this chapter)