USDA Issues Pamphlet
On Beef Yield Grades
A new pamphlet discussing
the U.S. Department of Agricul
ture’s beef yield grades has
been published by the agency’s
Consumer and Marketing Ser
vice. This publication, entitled
"Yield Grades For Beef” (MB
45), illustrates and tells in de
tail how these grades are deter
mined and what they mean to
producers, packers, retailers
and consumers.
The pamphlet emphasizes
how yield grades benefit retail
ers by providing them with a
readily available means of buy
ing beef with complete assur
ance as to its yield of retail
cuts.
The percentage of retail cuts
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that can be expected from each
of the five grades is given,
along with charts showing yield
and value differences for car
casses of the different yield
grades.
Packers and producers will
also find the publication help
ful since it illustrates and dis
cusses how to identify cattle
that produce the highest yields
of meat. It explains how pro
ducers may benefit financially
from raising cattle with thickly
muscled carcasses, a high qua
lity of lean, and a minimum of
excess fat.
USDA’s Carcass Evaluation
Service, the publication states,
is available to producers who
wish to use it as a means of gett
ing precise carcass information
about thin cattle. Under this
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service, USDA meat graders
will provide producers with in
formation on the quality grades,
yield grades, and other evalua
tions of the carcasses of their
beef cattle. This is especially
useful information to purebred
breeders involved in progeny
testing or to producers or feed
ers who are interested in the
carcass characteristics of cattle
of known origin.
For a copy of this publication,
send a postcard to the Informa
tion Division, Consumer and
Marketing Service, U S. Depart
ment of Agriculture, 26 Federal
Plaza, New York, N.Y. 10007.
Please include your zipcode.
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