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A way for market price to be decided, is based on quality/yield/dressing/cattle performance - choice/select spread is the key factor
What’s grid marketing?
The age of the meat. The younger it is, the less connective tissue tehre is. Younger is better, A-E.
What’s Maturity?
The dispersing of fat within the meat. The more there is, the more flavorful it is
What’s Marbling?
Choice
What type of meat is cattle goals for famers?
Marbling and Maturity
What are the two affects of quality?
Prime, Choice, Select, Standard, Commercial, Utility, Cutter, Canner
What are the Quality Grades?
No
does meat quality matter in a yield grade?
The expected BCTRC of a carcass. YG1 would be a high percentage, while YG5 is the lowest.
What is the Yield Grade?
Boneless closely trimmed retail cut
What is BCTRC?
Dressing %
What is fat good in?
chilled carcass weight/live weight x 100
What’s the dressing % formula
Price
What does the buyer determine when purchasing cattle?
the finishing phase of the cattle industry - takes heavy cattle and slaughters them - most cattle in this phase are fed on grain while waiting for slaughter
What are feedlot operations
Growing the babies on low-price feed before sending them to feedlot - 3rd segment, risky profit business
What are the Yearling/Stocker operators
segment of the beef cattle industry, 1st segment, produces the breeding stock (greatest demand is bulls)
What are Seedstock Producers
Keeping cows to produce more babies to sell - goal is heaviest babies with least cost for feed - 2nd segment
What is Commercial Cow-Calf Production
7% of thw world’s cattle, 17% of meat produce
How much Cattle/Produce does the US contribute in?
Note 
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