NO DECIMAL. Rounding up if the first decimal is 5 or greater…
NO DECIMAL. Rounding up if the first decimal is 5 or greater. A packing plant processes approximately 3600 heads of cattle per day. The average live weight is 1300 lbs with an agreeable shrinkage rate of 3% at arrival. The carcass price is $2.12/lb. With a dressing percentage of 62%, total HCW per day is lbs and the total value per day is $. With a dressing percentage of 63%, the packing plant will have lbs more of HCW in the cooler. This difference in the amount of HCW is an equivalence of worker hours if average worker pay is $15 per hour.