Understanding the impact of sire lean meat yield breeding value on carcass composition, meat quality, nutrient and mineral content of Australian lamb Meat Sci Jul doi j.meatsci...

productCarcass traits are an impor tant consideration in bull selection, particularly when cattle ownership is retained and cattle are sold on value based carcass gridsCarcassMeasurements Understanding beef carcass information begins with understand

moves higher, the difference between the value of a Choice carcass and a Select carcass becomes greaterA simple comparison (TABLE ) shows that the difference between the value of an lbChoice car cass and an lbSelect carcass will be if the spread reaches cwt.

Mark McCully, long time vice president for the Certified Angus Beef brand and current CEO of the American Angus Association, talks about value in the beef

Understanding Carcass Value Gary Smith, Colorado State University, says the value of a beef carcass is determined by its weight, sex class, USDA Quality Grade, Yield Grade (YG) and freedom from defects dark cutting beef, bruises, yellow fat of its kind

Hot Carcass WeightHot carcass weight (HCW), or carcass weight on some reports, is the hot or unchilled weight of the animal in pounds after slaughter and after the hide, head, intestinal tract, and internal organs have been removedFor the majority of fed cattle, HCW will range from to of the live weight of the animal at slaughter.

carcass grades and product valueLivestock Nutrition carcass weights within the previous Agriculture and Natural Resources FSA Understanding Beef Carcass Information Tom Troxel

Then use this value along with carcass weight, percent age kidney, pelvic, and heart fat, and ribeye area to calcu late the yield grade to one decimalYield grade can be con verted to a percentage rep resenting the same cutsTo

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The pork carcass cutout value is a calculation of the approximate value of a carcass based on the prices received for its respective componentsThe USDAs pork carcass cutout value is the estimated value of a standardized percent lean, pound carcass based upon industry average cut yields and average market prices of sub primal pork cuts.