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Market them as grass-fed beef.

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From: Linda & Farwell McMullen/Smith [mailto:linfarmt@hotmail.com]
Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 6:35 AM
To: graze-l@taranaki.ac.nz
Subject: [Graze-l] Marketing Natural Calves

Dear list friends,
We are a cow/calf producer in Montana and would like to market our calves as 
"natural."  Our old cattle buyers in our area are so steeped in tradition 
that they don't even care if the calves are natural or not  (when they heard 
the calves had no implants they saw profit to be made by implanting them).  
We would like to add value for our cattle operation if possible, but if 
that's not in the cards we would settle for finding a buyer who wants  
calves with no antibiotics or implants.  We sold our natural calves last 
year to one of our traditional buyers who told us he had no market for the 
calves except the regular feedlots who use implants.  Does anyone know of a 
way to market these calves to a buyer who specializes in this type of 
product?  Thanks in advance for your help!

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