SC - Local meat prices - OOP

[Craig Jones.]

>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.