Chapter 13 Hannover Agricultural Machinery Exhibition After waking up, Guo Yang opened his sleepy eyes and looked at the unfamiliar closed my eyes, opened them again, and got up. It was just past five in the morning. Open the window, and the first breeze of the morning blows towards you, and the elegant scent refreshes your heart. Guo Yang walked out of the room and wandered around the farm. I thought he got up early enough, but I didn't expect that there were people who got up earlier than him. I saw that the lights in the direction of the cowshed had been turned on, and human shadows were reflected on the wall walking back and forth. From time to time, the sound of dogs barking and cows mooing could be heard. He adjusted his footsteps unconsciously and when he got closer, Guo Yang could see that it was Victor and Lisa who were busy herding the cattle to graze. One by one, the black and white cows walked out of the cowshed and headed towards the special pasture driven by the sheepdog Buck. Cows are naturally docile, and with Buck walking around nearby, the entire herd, although numbering more than 200 heads, large and small, is still quite orderly. After saying hello to Victor and Lisa, Guo Yang realized that there was nothing he could do to help, so he followed the herd toward the pasture. As the sun slowly rose from the sky, the grassland was covered with layers of red light, and the dew on the grass reflected the shining light. The cattle walked on the grassland, sometimes looking up and sometimes chewing the grass.
The sky and the earth suddenly open up, presenting a touching pastoral farm scene. Guo Yang was a little stunned for a moment. "Go back, I must go back, back to the Northwest!" Guo Yang fell into deep thought. The World Cup has entered the knockout stage and the end is not far away. At this time, he has accumulated nearly 11 billion yuan in funds, and he will receive another sum of money after the matches between Brazil and England, Germany and the United States are over on the 21st. Before this, Guo Yang always wanted to save more money because he had witnessed the cruelty of agricultural competition in later generations. In Guo Yang's memory, many companies that were originally thriving in other industries gradually fell into the quagmire after switching to agriculture, and some even went bankrupt. He was originally just an ordinary grower. One or two thousand acres of land was a lot compared to ordinary farmers, but it was still far from enough compared to those capital tycoons. The seed industry he is about to enter is also a core area of competition among international agricultural chemical giants in the future. Since 2015, there has been a wave of mergers in the global agricultural chemical industry. Dow and DuPont, the two largest chemical companies in the United States, announced their merger. Sinochem acquires Swiss Syngenta for over 40 billion USD in cash. Bayer acquires Monsanto for $660 billion... However, this is just the beginning of the capital game in the agricultural supplies sector. After looking at the scenery on the grassland for a while, Guo Yang's thoughts gradually became clear. After attending this International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, he will return to the Northwest. The money is more than enough. More than one billion yuan is enough to do something big in this era. Back in the room, Catherine, the eldest sister, had already prepared a sumptuous breakfast for everyone. Bread, honey, cheese, eggs, cereal and drinks. But at this time, Guo Yang's mind was completely focused on the agricultural machinery exhibition he was about to attend. ……
Hannover International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition, on site. Guo Yang, Fran and Victor followed the huge crowd into the exhibition hall. Victor's family did not come with them because there were too many things to do on the farm. The exhibition hall was crowded with people, and there were people surrounding every piece of agricultural machinery. Vickera introduced to the crowd: "This exhibition has attracted more than 2,000 companies from more than 40 countries around the world to showcase their latest products and technologies. It is expected that more than 400,000 professional visitors will gather here. Suppliers, distributors, users and industry experts from all over the world will have various exchanges here." Guo Yang was not surprised to hear Victor's introduction, as he had already learned about the relevant information before. Founded in 1985, the Hannover International Agricultural Machinery Exhibition is the world's largest international exhibition specializing in machinery and equipment used in the agricultural field. With the advantages of timing and location, German companies with certain strength will come to participate in the exhibition. In the European and American markets, German agricultural machinery is a powerful force. In the field of mainframes, Claas is ranked among the top five in the world and is known as the harvesting expert and the largest agricultural machinery manufacturer in Europe. In the livestock equipment industry, there is the world-renowned Colony company, which is known as the Rolls-Royce of livestock harvesters. The world's largest silage machine comes from Colony. In the tractor industry there is Fendt, a top global brand on par with John Deere. In the field of agricultural machinery, there are three major players: Leken, Amazon, and Horsch. In the fertilizer spreader industry, there is Aohe... In short, Germany has countless well-known agricultural machinery companies. In addition, multinational companies such as John Deere, Case New Holland, AGCO, and Kubota also participated in the exhibition. Guo Yang's main target of this trip is also these world-leading multinational companies. In order to facilitate the process, Guo Yang said to the others, "There are too many people. Let's go and watch separately." Several people nodded in agreement at the same time. Victor mentioned the name of a restaurant where everyone would gather for lunch at noon. Afterwards, Guo Yang separated from the others and went to the John Deere booth. Agricultural machinery information began to be collected around tractors, and John Deere is also the world's top tractor manufacturer. For Guo Yang at present, a high-horsepower tractor is the most important thing. The Northwest region has vast land but lacks advanced large-scale agricultural machinery. The existing large-scale agricultural machinery has been in service for a long time, and its technical status, power performance and economic performance have declined rapidly, and can no longer meet the existing needs. What's more, Guo Yang is planning to improve the saline-alkali land to accumulate natural energy. Improving the saline-alkali land will definitely involve deep plowing of the land and even the removal of the saline-alkali soil on the surface, and large-scale operating machinery will definitely be indispensable. However, the speed of collecting agricultural machinery information was too slow, especially the last few percentage points. Guo Yang felt that the speed was like constipation, which made people wait anxiously. “…99%………” After finally collecting all the new John Deere tractors, Guo Yang immediately switched to another machine that he had been eyeing for a long time. The morning passed quickly, and Guo Yang had collected information on eight agricultural machines, which took at least half an hour on average to collect information on one machine. That’s 16 units a day. According to Guo Yang, there are more than 5000 varieties of agricultural machinery and more than 1 sets of agricultural machinery equipment on display at the exhibition.
The efficiency is too slow. Guo Yang has decided to spend the next three days of the exhibition here. And the target is mainly set on the top and most important agricultural machinery products. Especially companies such as Claas, Fendt, John Deere, Kubota, Yanmar, etc., and their products are mainly focused on power machinery, arable land sowing machinery, animal husbandry machinery, grain harvesting machinery and other machinery. As for other agricultural machinery brands, he may not even have time to visit them. At noon, when Guo Yang arrived at the restaurant Victor mentioned, the restaurant was also very lively. And in the center of the hall there is a screen broadcasting the World Cup quarter-final between Germany and the United States. When it comes to the World Cup and football, the German people are no less enthusiastic than any other country in the world. But Guo Yang was not very interested in this game. The lottery ticket he bought yesterday was for the match between England and Brazil. The result of the match had already been released. Brazil lived up to expectations and eliminated England 2:1. After entering the restaurant and finding Fran, Victor and others, Guo Yang began to concentrate on eating. He only looked at eight agricultural machines in the whole morning, and showed great interest in them, asking the staff at the booth to come forward several times to introduce them to him. In order to deal with these staff members, Guo Yang also spent a lot of energy. After dinner, Guo Yang took a short rest in the restaurant. Before the German game was over, he returned to the exhibition hall to collect information about agricultural machinery. Although it was boring, it made him feel fulfilled. (End of this chapter)