Nearly A Quarter Waste
r pHERE is a lesson for farmers in this photograph. It shows one of two lambs which were on display at the North Canterbury district export lamb competition at the North Canterbury Sheepfarmers’ Cooperative Freezing Company’s works at Kaiapoi last
week. One of the lambs weighed 381 b and the other 461 b and Mr A. E. White, supervising grader and inspector for the New Zealand Meat Producers’ Board, said that in trimming down the fat to make these lambs suitable for shop purposes there would be a loss of at
least 23 per cent. Fortunately reports from meat companies indicate that farmers are not offending to any extent in this respect. The general manager of the Canterbury Frozen Meat Company, Mr R. D. Iles, said this week that in 387.000 head killed at the company's three works up until last Saturday only 47 had been classified as over-fat. For these lambs, which are unsuitable for export, the companies are paying B}d a lb.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29994, 1 December 1962, Page 6
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