Natural Valley Meats

[cowman]

grassfarmer: Head meat is the meat along the cheeks. Regularily taken off in a big packing house...not sure about a small abbatoire...it is basically sausage meat and no I'm not sure about the 5 lb. thing...I'm trying to remember over 20 years ago!
A needle machine is basically a tenderizer...how you get those "minute steaks" from a flank steak? One time I got the outside round "needled" by the local abbatoire...I think he charged me 20 cents a pound...again a lot of years ago...and the old memory isn't improving any!
Incidently I went to this garage sale this summer and this guy had a needle machine(A Hobart) for $300. I offered him $200 but he didn't take it.

[kato]

We've got neighbours who sunk a pile of cash which they could have put to better use into this plant. When they told us it was $100 a hook, and that was for rent for a four year period, and it had to be paid again after that time ran out we backed right off.

One neighbour shipped fats in June, and as of a month ago, he hadn't been paid. Another one, who has invested $5000 in renting hooks has been told he may as well take his cattle somewhere else is just as impressed. They told him they had no market for the beef, so didn't want the cattle.

How do you get your investment back, when it was 'rent'? You don't.