Carrying a Jurassic on me-Chapter 1255 - 621: Support Funds, On TV, Mechanization

Most of the people going up to shoot the ad spoke with a thick, authentic local accent, which sounded very rustic, with only a few exceptions using the Sancha River-style Mandarin, which was particularly humorous—getting paid a few dozen yuan just to recite or read a passage aloud, everyone was quite willing. After all, no one would buy the advertised product unless it was given away for free.

This talking about going on TV referred to shooting ads like this.

Yan Fei and Xiaosong stood here, and almost everyone who passed by would make a comment about appearing on TV; there were also blessings of wealth, showing that the news had quite an obvious effect—of course, this was also related to the limited number of channels the television could receive, with some homemade TV antennas which were just a string of cans stuck on top, being able to catch the local station was already good.

After waiting for a short while, a small passenger car arrived, and the guests they were expecting had come. This time, it was several technical staff from a machinery factory in the city who had been hard to invite.

The purpose of their visit was to discuss the manufacturing of a set of automatic feeding machines.

Lack of manpower is made up for by machinery; everyone understands that. Having a good set of mechanical equipment can save a lot of labor. Yan Fei could hire more people in other areas, but when it came to feeding cattle, he felt it was unnecessary—too many people would also make things chaotic.

The equipment produced by the machinery factory had nothing to do with cattle feeding at all, as they manufactured industrial machinery.

The reason these people came here is quite amusing. Speaking of the highest level of education in Yan Fei’s cattle ranch, it was Liu JinXue, a genuine university graduate, but he didn’t feed the cattle. The next highest in education would have to be Xiang Rui, after all, a technical secondary school student.

As for the others, let’s not mention them—Heizi and his gang’s junior high school diplomas were kind of sketchy. But education does not represent imagination; a group of young men interacting with cattle every day did not limit their boundless imagination.

When River Heart Island was being constructed, didn’t they purchase a batch of utility poles? Xiaosong was the one in charge then, and this guy even went on a ’field trip’ to several pole factories.

At first, he was curious about how such a long hollow concrete tube was made into a pole. So when he visited the pole factory, he observed the production process in their workshop.

What he saw led to a discovery.

The machinery at the utility pole factory was quite advanced, featuring an automatic feeder that could feed materials automatically. After mixing the concrete, it would be loaded into a metal bucket, carried by electricity from one end to the other, shaking continuously beneath the mover, and then the concrete would flow automatically into the molds, which was very efficient, requiring only one person to operate it.

When Xiaosong and the others initially joined the ranch, they all started with feeding the cattle. Seeing this machine sparked an idea: if they could install such a device in the cattle ranch, load the feed into it, and then walk it through, wouldn’t one person be able to feed the cattle?

Of course, it wasn’t feasible for the ranch at that time, still using the old-fashioned feed troughs that were a bit high. The feeder at the utility pole factory didn’t need to be that high. But the new cattle ranch could accommodate it, because they considered this issue from the start. So during the construction of the new cattle ranch, the feed troughs were designed to be lower.

This way, if the automatic feeder could be modified somewhat, it could become a piece of mechanized cattle-feeding equipment.

Starting a business early has its advantages; you’re a step ahead of others, with more opportunities and a broader market. But there are downsides too. Many things don’t have off-the-shelf solutions and require you to figure them out yourself.

Contact with the machinery factory started early, but at first, they were reluctant to proceed, as the application was too narrow.

Although there are many cattle farms, not many are large-scale, and generally, they rely on human labor. The first reason is that labor is very cheap—you can get plenty of people willing to work for a few hundred yuan in wages.

The second reason is that some people believe machines can never match the care of human feeding. Moreover, machines are prone to malfunctioning, requiring maintenance every few days, which sometimes can cause delays.

Perhaps some cattle farmers have considered mechanization, but probably only pondered it rather than putting it into action. Only Boss Yan not only had long-term vision but also acted when it was time—a mechanical solution was inevitable anyway, and besides, the machine wouldn’t cost much to make.

The machinery factory was initially unwilling, but couldn’t withstand Xiaosong’s persistence, who kept calling them every now and then. Moreover, the ranch’s reputation had grown lately, especially with the recent succession of Wagyu-related news broadcasts, which naturally piqued the factory’s interest—if a large cattle farm could set up this equipment, it would be easier to promote elsewhere with such a model.

Yan Fei just made an appearance to greet them and then let go of the matter when it came to the site inspection. He left the professional work to the professionals, with Xiaosong acting as the liaison; he himself had to go to school!

Carrying two bags of beef jerky as a bribe, he went off to school.

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