Why a Hog’s Not All Chops
lb live hog /
dresses out 71.5%, M /
loses 60 J j
Yields a 150 Ib^arcass/^^
LOIN
27.0 LBS F\
lbs HAM V^r^*
V J 3! 7 lbsf 31 i"”
An additional 30 lbs of fat for lard, bones
and waste further reduces this 150 lb carcass
to only 120 lbs of saleable retail cuts —
chops, hams, bacon, ribs and sausage—that
the retailer wraps and puts on display in the
meat case.
Figures are averages taken from actual cut out
- tests . Carcass data vary, depending on cutting method
and type of hog'.
Prepared by.the
National Live Stock and Meat Board
Consumers prefer pork chops to pork
steaks or shoulder roasts, as indicated by their -
traditional buying habits. But there are only 13
pounds of chops in the 120 pounds of saleable pork
the retailer gets from a 150 nound carrasq Hp
SHOULDER 23.11 b (15.4% of total carcass)
Boston shoulder
Fat for lard
Picnic shoulder cubes 7.0
Bone
Hocks
LOIN 27.0 lb (18.0% of total carcass)
Blade roast (5 rib)
Center chops
Sirloin roast
Fat for lard
TOTAL
SIDE 31.7 lb (21.1% of total carcass)
Bacon, cured
Sausage trimmings
Spareribs -
TOTAL
HAM 31.5 lb (21.0% of total carcass)
Rol'ed leg of pork
roast, boneless
Sausage trimmings
Skin
Fat for lard
Bone and shrink
TOTAL
MISCELLANEOUS 36.7 lb
(24.5% of total carcass)
4.5
9.0
6.4
Jowl, trimmed
Feet, tail, neckbones
Sausage trimmings
Fat for lard
TOTAL 19.9 lb
Total Saleable Pork Cuts 120.0 lb
Total Fat for Lard 23.7 lb
Bone and Shrink 6.3 lb
Total Carcass Weight 150.0 lb
must sell 107 pounds of other cuts as well. That’s
why high-demand cuts, like pork chops, cost more.
The retailer must price his pork so he sells it all
with no picnics, hocks or ribs left over.
Saleable Pork
Cuts-lb
9.4
3.4
TOTAL 19.8 lb 3.3 lb
6.3
13.3
4.2
23.8 lb
24.0
2.0
5.7
31.7 lb
19.8
2.8
2.2
3.2
3.5
24.8 lb 6.7 lb
farming. Saturday, March 31, 197^-
2.8
23.1 lb
3.2
3.2 1b
27.0 lb
31.7 lb
31.51 b
16.8
16.8 lb 36.7 lb
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SEE Your local
AGRICO DEALER
Midwest
Farmers
Visit
“A plane load of farmers from
the Midwest arrived in
Harrisburg Wednesday afternoon
and spent three days visiting
family farmers in Southeastern
Pennsylvania,” Forney
Longenecker, Lititz, organization
director of the National Farmers
Union announced. They came by
a Farmers Union owned Convair
580 turbo jet plane trom North
and South Dakota, Nebraska,
Kansas, Indiana and Ohio.
During their, visif to Penn
sylvania, they stayed with host
families in Chester, Lancaster,
York , Perry, Northumberland,
Columbia. Dauphin. Nor
thampton. Lehigh, Lycoming,
Fulton and Bedford counties.
Dwyte Wilson, Denver,
Colorado national director of
organization, spoke to the visitors
and their host families at a
supper meeting in Bill's
Restaurant at the Capital City
AirportHe said that the Farmers
Union was supporting legislation
for lower property taxes.
Specifically! the organization
supports legislation which will
exempt farm silos trom taxation
and valuation of farm land ac
cording to present use for tax
purposes
Allen Dieter, Dornsife, Pa,
president of the Northumberland
County chapter, urged the
members to work together to
restore the Rural Environmental
Assistance Program (REAP).
Longenecker called upon mem
bers to support a producer milk
price increase and to work with
the mushroom growers in their
efforts to prevent excessive Far-
East imports from destroying
their industry. Mushrooms
represent the largest cash crop
for Pennsylvania farmers
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