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<blockquote data-quote="Frankie" data-source="post: 635097" data-attributes="member: 13"><p>Are you saying when CAB demand is up, the USDA meat graders in the packing plants "find" more CAB beef than when demand is down? If so, you'll have a hard time making that rock fly.</p><p></p><p>1. Meat graders work for the USDA, not the packer. Why should they cheat, possibly lose their jobs, to help the packer sell more CAB?</p><p></p><p>2. The Angus Assn had projected selling a billion pounds of CAB in the next few years. They had to back off that projection because there's not that much product available. It's not an easy thing to meet the CAB standards.</p><p></p><p>3. My local meat market sells Choice beef. But he occasionally gets boxes of CAB tenderloin at the Choice price. That tells me that sometimes there's more product than demand.</p><p></p><p>The CAB <strong>premium</strong> to the owner of the cattle is affected by supply and demand.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And there are operations meeting the CAB requirements at much higher rates than 17%. Most every month the <em>Angus Journal</em> will feature a producer who's doing very well at that. And they list the feedlots that are feeding cattle that meet the specs at a higher rate.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Frankie, post: 635097, member: 13"] Are you saying when CAB demand is up, the USDA meat graders in the packing plants "find" more CAB beef than when demand is down? If so, you'll have a hard time making that rock fly. 1. Meat graders work for the USDA, not the packer. Why should they cheat, possibly lose their jobs, to help the packer sell more CAB? 2. The Angus Assn had projected selling a billion pounds of CAB in the next few years. They had to back off that projection because there's not that much product available. It's not an easy thing to meet the CAB standards. 3. My local meat market sells Choice beef. But he occasionally gets boxes of CAB tenderloin at the Choice price. That tells me that sometimes there's more product than demand. The CAB [b]premium[/b] to the owner of the cattle is affected by supply and demand. And there are operations meeting the CAB requirements at much higher rates than 17%. Most every month the [i]Angus Journal[/i] will feature a producer who's doing very well at that. And they list the feedlots that are feeding cattle that meet the specs at a higher rate. [/QUOTE]
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