{"content":[{"text":"Livestock Meat Processing Survey Report | May 2020","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.045714,"width":0.427224,"height":0.015572999999999997}},{"text":"What type of livestock do you produce? Choose all that apply.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.09102,"width":0.531163,"height":0.015573000000000004}},{"text":"Beef, pork, chicken, and lamb are the most common species of livestock raised by farmers who \n filled out the survey.","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.127834,"width":0.757201,"height":0.034056}},{"text":"Has your livestock processing access changed since COVID-19? If so, how? \n Processors that usually process local livestock for farmers are booked out for more months than \n is typical; frequently, into 2021. In some cases, this has affected livestock producers' ability to \n schedule processing dates that match their target maturity dates with their livestock. This \n sampling of respondent comments reveals a range of experiences with scheduling of \n processing:","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.465557,"width":0.762542,"height":0.10753199999999996}},{"text":"●","bbox":{"left":0.205877,"top":0.594176,"width":0.010895999999999989,"height":0.015572999999999948}},{"text":"Yes! there for 5 weeks packers did not offer any bids, they had backlog of cattle \n already purchased sitting on the shelf waiting for a harvest date.","bbox":{"left":0.235299,"top":0.594176,"width":0.63249,"height":0.03405699999999989}},{"text":"●","bbox":{"left":0.205877,"top":0.64932,"width":0.010895999999999989,"height":0.015572999999999948}},{"text":"No. My processor called me and scheduled me for the entire year. She also \n called all the other regular customers and scheduled them. Then she allowed in \n the contract hog farmers.","bbox":{"left":0.235299,"top":0.64932,"width":0.63149,"height":0.05238699999999996}},{"text":"●","bbox":{"left":0.205882,"top":0.722836,"width":0.010895999999999989,"height":0.015572999999999948}},{"text":"We were lucky to have already booked fall appointments but due to the soaring \n demand for processing I’m already booking for fall 2021 which would have been \n unthinkable in years past.","bbox":{"left":0.235294,"top":0.722836,"width":0.634653,"height":0.052238999999999924}},{"text":"●","bbox":{"left":0.205882,"top":0.79632,"width":0.010895999999999989,"height":0.015572999999999948}},{"text":"We are begging to get animals processed. Normally it’s 6 months out. The shops \n are doing a good job and the best they can.","bbox":{"left":0.235294,"top":0.79632,"width":0.6424709999999999,"height":0.03390699999999991}},{"text":"●","bbox":{"left":0.205882,"top":0.851472,"width":0.010895999999999989,"height":0.015572999999999948}},{"text":"Yes, our normal processor is now booking at in November and we have steers \n that should have gone in next month [June]","bbox":{"left":0.235294,"top":0.851472,"width":0.622669,"height":0.03390599999999999}},{"text":"2","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.936472,"width":0.010033000000000014,"height":0.015572999999999948}}],"images_bbox":[{"left":0.117647,"top":0.164376,"width":0.764706,"height":0.280303}],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[{"left":0.117647,"top":0.164376,"width":0.764706,"height":0.280303}]}