Maple Leaf Angus
Well-known member
Well that sure got your attention, didn't it!
Maybe I should leave it up to you to decide just how Huge this Premium is.
Better Beef-Cargill Meat Solutions has announced that they are paying $10.00 per head for age-verifiable cattle 20 months and under. WOW!
Consider this: RFID tags cost almost half of the "PREMIUM" being offered, an RFID tag alone is of no value for visual field identification of animals so an additional dangle tag is required, recording the D.O.B. at home and at the CCIA takes extra hours, plus the fact that when selling calves (like we did last fall) there is no payback for the extra work.
And these great-hearted people at Better Beef-Cargill Meat Solutions are offering $10.00 per head premium for all this? Looks like they are pretty much following the pattern of the old company they bought.
Instead of paying us 75% of what it costs us to do the record keeping, I am demanding that they pay us 75% of their additional income on the age-verified carcasses that they are exporting to the Asian market.
Unfortunately, the usual mentality is that "ten bucks is better than nothing, so I'll take it . . ." and many feeders will accept it.
At present, I have an inquiry in at the OCA office to discover how much potential extra value an exportable animal carries. Maybe it's only ten bucks and they're giving it all back to us!
:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:
Maybe I should leave it up to you to decide just how Huge this Premium is.
Better Beef-Cargill Meat Solutions has announced that they are paying $10.00 per head for age-verifiable cattle 20 months and under. WOW!
Consider this: RFID tags cost almost half of the "PREMIUM" being offered, an RFID tag alone is of no value for visual field identification of animals so an additional dangle tag is required, recording the D.O.B. at home and at the CCIA takes extra hours, plus the fact that when selling calves (like we did last fall) there is no payback for the extra work.
And these great-hearted people at Better Beef-Cargill Meat Solutions are offering $10.00 per head premium for all this? Looks like they are pretty much following the pattern of the old company they bought.
Instead of paying us 75% of what it costs us to do the record keeping, I am demanding that they pay us 75% of their additional income on the age-verified carcasses that they are exporting to the Asian market.
Unfortunately, the usual mentality is that "ten bucks is better than nothing, so I'll take it . . ." and many feeders will accept it.
At present, I have an inquiry in at the OCA office to discover how much potential extra value an exportable animal carries. Maybe it's only ten bucks and they're giving it all back to us!
:lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: