Day 088 - 13 Feb 95 - Page 77
1 per cent or something like that?
2 A. I would find that very, very difficult to answer
3 because there are times in the year when soya is so
4 expensive that it is totally eliminated from the diet.
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6 Q. What about the pig food for the pigs for fattening the
7 finishing units?
8 A. The same rule applies.
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10 Q. The same what?
11 A. The same rule applies.
12
13 Q. So that would just be cereal protein fish meal?
14 A. Yes.
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16 Q. And soya, which months is the soya cheaper? Is that winter
17 or summer or what?
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19 MR. JUSTICE BELL: It would be easier to say which are the
20 expensive periods because presumably when it is relatively
21 inexpensive you can choose whatever percentage suits your
22 formula. When are you under pressure because of the cost
23 of soya to cut the proportion down even to nothing?
24 A. It depends on say the Peruvian and Chilean crops.
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26 Q. So you just cannot say certain months in the year?
27 A. No, it is all about the harvest of it, sir, the
28 availability.
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30 MS. STEEL: So is it mostly from Peru and Chile, or is it from
31 other countries as well?
32 A. Yes.
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34 Q. What other countries does it come from?
35 A. There are European, American countries it comes from.
36 It comes from all over the world now, it is an
37 international commodity.
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39 Q. Do you ever get it from Brazil?
40 A. That I do not know, I have to be honest about that.
41 That is one thing I had better explain. What we do is we
42 actually have two food nutritionists who work for us and
43 they actually make the diets up and the compounders then
44 have to make the feed to our specification, but we do not
45 have any jurisdiction of where they buy Peruvian,
46 Argentinian, Italian or whatever. It is up to them then to
47 buy it from the source they think fit.
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49 Q. So you are aware that some of it comes from Latin American
50 countries?
51 A. It is possible.
52
53 Q. Which company do you buy the soya feed from?
54 A. We do not buy soya feed as such.
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56 Q. Well the soya meal or?
57 A. We do not buy it direct.
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59 Q. Which company?
60 A. We do not buy it direct. It is our who compounders buy
