"Corky" Bryan - Hawaii Cattlemens Council

CB: Mostly there’s four grades of carcasses. Prime, choice, select… so you get a larger percentage of achoice grade which is what everybody is after.LW:And how they’re priced… they’re priced that way.CB:Yeah… yeah, exactly.LW:When you take them to market.CB:Right.LW:When you sell them.CB: Right. And that’s what we do here is that. We sell all our cattle basically in the box which is… I mean alot of people just sell a live animal. And you get up until very, very recently, all live cattle were priced the same.Well we… we’re working hard in our breeding program to make these cattle be better so I’m not going to sellthem to a guy for the same thing as some guy doesn’t give a damn about what he’s raising. … anything that’sgot four legs, you know. So we price all our cattle in the box, you know. In the carcass… what those cattle areworth when they cut them all up and put them in boxes to sell to the retailers. That’s what we get paid. Sothat’s…LW:So then that means… technically you don’t get… you don’t sell the…CB:The live animal.LW:The live animal.CB:No… we sell boxes.LW: ‘Cause you ship them away still owned by Parker, you feed them out there somewhere in Canada orsomething…