SC - ask the USDA
Michael Newton
melcnewt at netins.net
Wed Mar 28 15:04:00 PST 2001
>Margarite & any others who may be interested.
>
>I checked with the OSU meat lab. They will be butchering the Spring crop of
>lambs beginning April 20th, with processed meat available later that week.
They
>are happy to custom wrap your order. The fella I talked to told me he couldn't
>give me a total price, but estimates a cost of $2 per pound carcass weight.
So,
>if you buy a whole lamb, processed, it will weigh between 55 and 70 pounds for
a
>cost of $110 to $140 and receive 35 to 50 pounds of meat. Final cost per pound
>comes to $3.14.
The average suburban butcher in Australia will sell you a whole hoggett (and in
my opinion tastier than lamb...) for about A$45 for a 40 pound carcass. After
some calculations that works out at US$0.58 per pound. Lamb would be up around
US$0.75 per pound. You guys should emigrate....
Drake.
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