Sun comes up in I'm blogn!       Another morning waking up to an Australian misty atmosphere.  I tell ya I feel like all we have done in this country is eat!  Every two hours it seems that skippy is pullen this chariot over to get some grub.  Might have a few more pounded on me on the flight back over the pond.      We started the day by arriving at the Wagga Wagga stock yards and I have never seen anything like it before.  They sell anywhere from 3000 cattle a sale and an astounding 30,000 range maggots a week.  The pens for sheep seemed like they went for acres and acres.  The sale itself was very hard to descifer. There is a huge different that what goes on at home.  The auctioneer has no rattle at all and sort of yells at the buyers.  Their pen sizes are much smaller than those that are sold in the states.  I did like that the whole ring and entrance and exit of the ring was air powered.  The ring itself was split into two pens.  One side was the current selling pen and then the next pen to sell.  With that there are sets of T.V. Screens that shows you exactly what is happening in the sale.  The cattle that went through the ring were very exceptional and for a horribly cheap price.  I'm trying to find a big ship and buy about a million dollars worth on beef on the hoof and turn them in the states.  Wonder if my bank would have my back.     Next we jetted across the road and entered a Cargill plant that is integrated with the Teys family in Australia.  This plant kills around 1250 cattle a day with no sheep slaughter.  This plant was a lot different than the JBS plant we visited a couple of days prior.  This plant seemed to be more in the lines of what we would see in our plants in the states.  The fab floor was very sophisticated   and also filled with immigrant worker that are here temporarily and sending their pay back home.  They would not show us the kill floor for some reason.  It must be policy.  They had a presentation before the tour that touched on the ever increasing need for meet in the world.  Most of this growth believe to be in the Asian countries.       After a filling lunch we moved onto Jindalee feedlot outside of the agriculture based town of Temora.  This yard is a 17,000 head yard that is all owned by the feedlot itself.  There are a lot of feed lots in this country that are custom feeders but Jindalee is not one of them.  Their cattle are 90% black hides beef with only a couple heifer pens.  Feed is very expensive here so the feedlot sectors are always struggling.  They feed a lot of wheat and cotton seed with very little roughage in their finishing diet.  It was nices to see good cattle in other parts of the world today. Quote of the day--Chicken Snitsel!! Signing out  Michael