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To: BubbaFred who wrote (109289)	8/1/2003 5:46:38 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

<<Calves (300 to 450 lbs) go for 60 to 65 cents a pound and are grazed to 3 to 4 times the calves' weight. Grown cattle (1,400 to 1,500 lbs live weight) sells for 45 to 50 cents a pound, usually sold to feedlots where cattle would get fattened some more, before going to the slaughter house. >> Feeder cattle are running about $90 per hundred weight. Fed cattle are going for about $77 per hundred weight. Slaughter weights run between 850 and 1400 pounds depending on which market they are going to. The East Coast likes more fat on their meat. Monfort of Greeley, Colorado is a big finisher of cattle and has around 3,000,000 head at a time. Another is IBP. Little known fact, Florida raises more cattle than Texas does. <<The Canadian mad cow disease was from an imported US calf. >> Mad cow disease is caused by what the cattle are fed.