Quote Originally Posted by percy View Post
LOL.Certainly does.
That beef number is amazing......!!

Looking forward, bobby calf processing seems like it will terminate at some stage - from an animal welfare/public perception. This has been a great boost for lamb plants over the years, at a time when sheep farms converted to dairy - giving plant numbers of calves when wouldn't ordinarily have many lambs going through -especially in the South Island. I think SFF would have a reasonable share of this - and also helps link in with dairy farmers and getting their cull stock.

On the flip side, if those calves all go through to veal or as beef cattle, then gives more product, and gain the benefit of fully grown cattle through beef plants.

Competition for land use isn't lamb vs beef vs dairy vs crop - its all vs carbon farming. Especially on that hill country.