The United States Department of Agriculture launched a new remote beef grading pilot program which will allow rural meat processors to have more access to markets through the USDA’s official beef ...

With Select supplies shrinking and consumer demand locked on higher-quality beef, the traditional Choice-Select spread no ...

MU Extension is partnering with the Show Me Youth Ag Academy, Missouri State University and Acrisure-Gibson Insurance to hold a Feeder Cattle Grading, Feeding and Marketing Workshop at 6 p.m. Dec. 9, ...

U-GRADES in the prime cattle kill in Northern Ireland have fallen from 20% in the five weeks before the introduction of mechanical grading last March to 12% in the five weeks after. In April 2010, 22% ...

Gosh. I hope I don’t sound defensive here, but my recent piece about more Choice cattle and instrument grading included a gratuitous tease about Brahman influence cattle, and—no surprise here, now ...

USDA Prime, Choice, Select and Standard have been the staples of graded beef, at least since the system was overhauled in the 1970s. The Choice grade may have been made too broad for effective use, ...

Nursing calves can be seen across Texas' landscape. Ranchers have hit their first management target with each birth -- a live calf. To squeeze a profit from that calf at sale time, cattleraisers ...

And the 3.25 million cattle processed nationally under MSA grading earned an additional $204 for producers, according to the analysis done by Meat and Livestock Australia. In the MSA annual outcomes ...

Cattle Council Australia says graziers are getting paid less because of flaws in the system used to grade beef quality. Loading... The council has released a draft of its submission to the Australian ...