Posted on 07/29/2021 11:57:13 AM PDT by deport
An influential hog dealer sanctioned twice for defrauding pork producers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars says it has fired employees responsible for its latest violations and paid restitution to affected sellers.
USDA said its investigation found the practices went on for three years, from January 2018 through 2020. The agency ordered Lynch Livestock to pay $445,626 in penalties and restitution, and to stop recording false weights, altering classifications of hogs delivered, and creating false scale tickets.
In the press release, his company said the USDA received a complaint in January that employees at its Waucoma buying station were manipulating the scale and issuing false tickets to artificially lower payments to producers.
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I was hoping for an article about motorcycles
No wonder bacon is always so expensive.
It’s not very good bang for the buck and too much fat plus processed.
Buy local.
As in “I want THAT animal”.
Hormel was famous for buying a whole hog for less weight than they sold the meat for. So they would weigh a hog and say “Well, it is a 280 lb hog” and then sell 290 lbs of meat from that hog.
Anyone notices that disaster after disaster is taking more and more of the food produced in the USA? How long till the Grocery stores shelves are empty?
And Kamala will be going down....
Buy local.
As in “I want THAT animal”.
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That’s how I grew up. My dad would go to the Livestock sale and
buy two shoats and come the fall they would be butchered for meat.
Buy local.
As in “I want THAT animal”.
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That’s how I grew up. My dad would go to the Livestock sale and
buy two shoats and come the fall they would be butchered for meat.
Sounds like an old wives tale that isn’t true. What that tale says is actually impossible. The live weight of a market hog of 200 lbs will shrink to a carcass weight of about 150 lbs. after slaughter. A loss of 25%. With a beef the shrinkage is greater. A 1200 lb steer will yield a dressed carcass of only about 800 lbs. A loss of 33%. All figures are approximate, but a rule of thumb.
Sounds like an old wives tale that isn’t true
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I believe that was the intent. by faking weights ,Hormel would sell 200 lbs. out of a 190 lbs. hog.
As in cribbage, a fast moving game, ‘see two, count four, peg six’.
I remember my dad decided to raise two hogs for market. We kids were the ones who fed them and got them fat.
He hauled them to the sale barn, we went to school and he basked in the knowledge he would get quite a bit for his two hogs.
When he picked up the check from the sale barn the hogs did not bring enough to pay the feed bill.
So much for raising hogs for sale.
Not a large operation if penalties and restitution is less than 500k.
Hillary’s “Cattle Futures” comes to mind...
Probably a bit of both.
Scamming on the payments was very common (on both sides).
My father raised hogs for a living, and would drive longer to avoid using Hormel since the other processor gave better live and hanging weights.
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