When a beef carcass is presented to a USDA grader, the carcass is cut, or “ribbed,” between ... The majority of meat sold at retail is Prime, Choice, or Select. Research has shown that ...

Kepak director says an R+ or R-3= is ‘a good performing animal’ and the ideal fat cover is a 3+ or 4+ Kepak Farm in Co Meath buys 100-120 cattle per week and finishes 5,000 cattle annually ...

One key to finding more tender and better value portions of any beef is to discover what used to be called “butcher cuts,” those parts of the carcass that only butchers knew about and hence ...

Conversion factors developed by ERS are used to convert retail weight to a carcass-weight equivalent ... to produce a pound of retail beef. For hogs, the conversion factors are 1.869 pounds of hog per ...

The mystery retailer behind a 667-job beef carcass processing and packaging ... instead processing and packing sub-primal cuts of beef into retail-ready cuts and products. Animals will be raised ...

Displaying the process from carcass to meat case was important ... isn’t more than one or two options for beef in the case. The price of every beef cut will also change based on the animal ...