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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (26592)	12/17/2007 6:16:49 AM
From: elmatador	Respond to of 220126

How we became the MSFT of the chicken. When i'm in Brazil I check the landscape and take Experiment to see the land. Last time I went to see some fellows putting up a new chicken factory. A bunch of guys mid-50's. Retired from Perdigao and Sadia. Got tired of doing nothing and decided that they want to do it is to produce chicken. Besides they wanted to handover the factory to their children a la Chinese. Those guys know anything about producing chickes. Then they explained: Factor maximum distance to corn farms. Little cost for get food to factory. Beside the factory there’s a factory that produces the food to the chickens. The other side there’s another factory. Producing chicks. They hatch the eggs. Get chicks in box. Truck them to a gigolo of chicken. That’s a caretaker Place the size of a football field. Position in relation to sun and the prevailing wind is calculated and all kinds of details. He put chicken there. Give food. Give vaccination. Guys just have to make sure chicks survive and get ready to slaughter. They slaughter. Prepare for market. Takes remains of the chickens and send back to farms for fertilize the land where the corn is going to plant. Then they told me the story: The US seeing many countries with deficiency in protein taught them how to raise chicken in industrial scale. Brazilians learned very fast. They made chickens for internal consumption and then went abroad to export. Because of the lower costs, Brazil became very competitive. A friend of mine, an agricultural journalist, said the Soviets gave the Cubans the technology to produce huge chickens, (they have those big meaty chests). The Cubans could not develop them further. So we took form the Cubans the technology and develop the huge chickens. But to be world beater chicken producer, you need cheap manpower in the cut room. You teach them anatomy, so they know how to cut the chicken. Then you get the pieces and sell them in pieces because it is more profitable than sell the whole bird. You know, you cut a piece that fits into airplane food tray and that is more profitable than sell them by the container load of whole birds.