Pork Study Shows Fat Important, MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - Fat, treatments and products that with its perceived negative impact result in a leaner pork product, on health, is the key factor in the While overall consumption of pork majority of pork buying decisions, has declined recently, the study according to a just-completed shows that at-home consumption of comprehensive market research pork has stabilized at an average study of U.S. pork consumers. of 2.1 times per week. The reason “The pork industry has been given for cutting back on pork promoting and moving toward a primarily centered on the desire to leaner product through genetics lower fat and cholesterol intake, and nutrition,” says Dr. David and an overall desire to reduce the Meisinger of International v amount of meat in the diet. Minerals & Chemical Corporation. Speaking at the November 20 Carcass Merit Seminar sponsored by the National Pork Producers Council, the American Merit In stitute and IMC, Meisinger said: “Even leaner pork products are possible and necessary to increase consumption. That’s why IMC and other companies are working with porcine somatotropin and other growth enhancing products for pork.” He cited an IMC consumer study to identify factors influencing retail pork selection, whether consumers placed a value on leaner pork, and what sensitivity pork consumers have to various A v has the ck models and pr The Orai of slmpl' The Ore broilers. For a hands poultry equfpmei Brought to you toy the folks who gave you poultry house automation In the first place, fifty years ag0.... SYCAMORE INO. PARK Huey equipment COMPANY, INC. (717)3f3-MO7 Dw%iw« tf Qtwlity SyttMW l*r Pwrftry, Srtw «ij 6rth> HwUm Researchers noted that “cbn sumers are closely scrutinizing different pork products at the retail level for visible signs of fat in their selection process. In our study, we see 70 percent selecting chops, roasts and ribs on the basis of visible fat, with only 16 percent selecting for the next most im portant factor—cost.” Thus, not only is a leaner product desirable, but the product must' also look lean, the study found. This selection criteria is im portant, they add, because 55 percent of the consumers studied said they would buy more pork if it had less fat on it. In addition, nearly 75 percent of current pork Price Secondary purchasers indicated they would choose a 10 percent leaner pork product over a normal product regardless of what was done to produce the leaner meat. And, they would be willing to pa' an average 24 cents more pet pound “Anyone following work to date with porcine somatotropin knows the resultant tremendous production of lean tissue versus fat in university studies,” says Meisinger. “But the fact that porcine somatotropin may produce significantly leaner pork products does not mean those buyers msst capable of boosting pork con sumption will rush to the meat counter unless their concerns with production practices and health issues are addressed first. “We have the data that show consumers are willing to buy more pork, even pay more for it, if it is a leaner product,” he says. “It’s imperative that, as an industry, we take as much care in accurately marketing the production techniques as we do in marketing that ultimate leaner, more nutritious product. ’ ’ Dutchman Call Us - - Your Big Dutchman Distributor .'..'---’in ■A-jA.vi. v Route 30 West at the Centerville Exit. SCHAUMBURG, IU - A 100- head cow herd can be pregnancy checked for the cost of feeding one open cow through the winter, according to a report prepared at the University of Idaho for the Idaho Veterinary Medical Association. Pregnancy checking of cows that calve in the spring is recom mended in the fall. Another report, part of a model program developed by the Georgia Cooperative Extension Service, shows how every $1 invested in professional cow/calf herd man agement practices returns the producer $5. The Georgia report estimates savings from pregnancy checking cows at $875 for a 30-cow herd and savings from castrating, dehorning, and implanting calves at an additional $729 for total annual herd savings of $1,604. “While the cows are being pregnancy checked, they can also be vaccinated and treated for parasites...and checked for general health,” the Idaho report says. “Early detection and WSP Lancaster Farming Saturday, December 6,1986-D5 Vets Urge Fall Pregnancy Checks SELL IT WITH A LANCASTER FARMING CLASSIFIED * 'ii'* 1 treatment of cancer eye can add $4 to $lO per hundredweight on cull cows and extend the life of other cows in the herd,” the report says. “Maximum fertility must be number-one in maintaining a beef cow herd for maximum produc tion,” said bovine practitioner Michael K. Moore, DVM, of Superior Nebraska. Charolais Heifer (Continued from Page D 4) banners from the 1986 American Royal and Tulsa ROE shows, FH Miss Mac 080 sold for $15,000 to C&J Charolais of Edmund, Okla. Fox Hollow Charolais of Hulbert, 0k1a.,-consigned the pride of their string, a -polled May 12, 1985, daughter of Minute Man Super man. She is out of Miss HCR Mac 1303 and sold bred to Fh Cujo 085. The youngest lot in the sale, Thomas Miss Candy 6514 by 1986 National Champion bull, Im mortal, sold for $15,000. She is a May 5,1986, heifer calf and sold to Granada Cattle Co. and Triple R Charolais. The extreme show heifer prospect from the Thomas Ranch of Harrold, S.D., is out of Thomas Miss Madonna 4009 and will be seen in the shpwring this season. Miss Stone-Del Poker Jag by Poker King Junior GVIBG sold for $13,000 to Miller Charolais Co. of Spring Grove, Pa. The Paul Miller Family purchased this Jan. 6 show heifer calf from Stone-Del Farms of Hartville, Ohio. She is out of Miss SDC Jaguar 940 L. &
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