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Prices of cuts and percentage or carcass |
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describes some example prices and then some reports on carcass
percentages per cut. The point of the example prices is not to
say these are correct prices or even what year they were in
effect. The point is to look at the relative prices between
different cuts to understand which cuts are more valuable than
others from a relative term. In Example 3, Loin chops are $16
per lb. and whole upper leg is $10 per lb. That indicates that
the price/lb. of the
loin chop is around 1.6 times more valuable than the price/lbs
of the whole upper
leg. The percentage of carcass charts are to better understand
the volume of each cut that can get that price. In the first
percentage example, it shows the leg to be 31% of the carcass
and the loin only 11%.
For ease of math, say the carcass weighs 100 lbs. That would mean the loin at $16 per lb with 11 lbs in a carcass would give you $176. The whole leg at $10 per lb. and 31 lbs, would give you $310. This would mean that, although the loin is the more expensive cut, there is more money to be made from the whole leg. I would believe it may be easier to increase the meat in the leg than in the loin area but I don't know that. This doesn't mean that the prices will stay the same as the weight of the carcass increases, It probably would decrease because the older the animal, the less tender the meat. These are just some of the tools you could use if the industry did a better job of collecting the appropriate info. |
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Frozen Goat Meat
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| Leg | 31.3 | 29.8 | ||||||||||||
| Loin | 11.5 | 10.2 | ||||||||||||
| Ribs | 9.0 | 8.7 | ||||||||||||
| Shoulder | 20.6 | 20.8 | ||||||||||||
| Neck | 7.3 | 9.7 | ||||||||||||
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Dr. Rick Machen - Associate Professor &
Extension Livestock Specialist
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Research Butchered the carcass in two different ways to see the difference in cuts. Fabrication Protocol |
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