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Far cry from cull time

The article from 1991 states that farmers received $1.80 per beast during the flock reduction scheme in the early '90s. A far cry from today's sales, with good quality heavy trade lambs going for $350.

A reader dropped in an old copy of the Spec dated Thursday, February 14, 1991 to show us the great […]

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