Meat processors are telling farmers to hang on to bobby calves this spring … and up to ten days. Normally farmers keep them for four days and then they are sent to the processors. But according to Meat Industry Association Strategy Manager Jason Krupp Fonterra’s new policy where all animals born must now enter the value stream means 200,000 more bobby calves will need to be processed.
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