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I was in a meeting with a group including a representative of a major retailer just after Christmas and we were talking about this very thing. He told us about the cheap NZ lamb promo that they had run previously. They did half price NZ legs. They paid the price difference, not the processor...

Let's not forget the ability to empty a pint glass without touching it after perching it on his beer belly Or the coughing fits...

Not sure which incident is my favourite Random Task incident..... The flaming Aftershock that torched your carpet @bigw Or sleeping on the doormat after completing the Vodka bar list (cue damp doormat...) Or the Rotterdam Ferry when he necked the bottle of Hugo Boss..... Probably Ralphy's face...

So do you buy rams in? Would you accept a ram lamb from the bottom 50% of someone else's flock?

Nah, Eric can't be any more than 65....

Molasses is over 60%DM....

Ian Findlay, Simprim at Meigle. Has a grubber, crusher, grader and whacker plates. Makes a great job. 07703114363

Thing is GUTH, weight limits have been in place for a fair while now. Certainly longer than a lot of finishing cycles so anyone still paying top dollar for cattle that abattoirs don't want really needs to question their actions. There are some cattle that don't finish until above 420 but not...

But they don't... Loins for supermarkets (your 12 footer) can be sold to the supermarkets for about £10 a kilo more than loins in to the wholesale trade (your 16 footer). So when you have somewhere between 15 and 20kg of this meat, that's £150 - £200 of a difference. So the abattoir loses £200...

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http://www.farmersjournal.ie/symptoms-of-heavy-metal-disease-173863 Genius!!

Personal choice - 525kg. Some folk would go higher, nearer 550, some nearer 500.

Kenny, what is the dry matter of the silage? As @beefandsleep says, your intake and starch are both too low for the stage in production. Reckon you won't be much above 25% starch. Need to be nearer 40%. When was the silage cut? How far shot was it?

It's either luck or some really good advice....

Not by much if any...pretty good price for the product in that size of drop I'd say