—Lancaster Farming, Saturday, June 17, 1972
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Beef Breeders
For Future of
Concern over the future of the
nation’s steer shows and their
present low value to the beef
industry has been expressed by
the U.S. Beef Breeds Council,
whose members said they cannot
continue to accept “some com
mon practices” of exhibitors at
those shows.
Composed of nine established
beef breed registries, the Council
stated that “some positive
changes must take place if steer
shows are to regain their
beneficial objectives”, and “if
those changes cannot be im
plemented, the major emphasis
of breed associations should be
shifted to junior breeding heifer
shows”.
The Council met in Kansas City
to consider methods of im
plementing rules and procedures
which would make the junior
steer shows of more educational
value and more meaningful to the
beef industry. The Council
recently recommended the
elimination of “open” or adult
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Voice Concern
Steer
steer shows. That recom
mendation is generally being
accepted at most major shows.
The discussions concerning
Junior steer shows ranged from
expressions of futility in
supervising equitable rules for
shows and controlling ineligible
exhibitors to high hopes that the
shows could be made even more
meaningful than in the past.
Council members generally
agreed that the steer program
was a worthwhile activity for
youth, and that the benefits to
youth in educational value and
self discipline and leadership
development justified the con
tinued support of the Council.
They also agreed that steer
shows were of benefit to the beef
industry in training young
breeders and for promotion of
purebred seedstock.
However, the future ef
fectiveness of those shows
depended on drastic and
sweeping changes which would
require close supervision and
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enforcement, the Council said.
The Council agreed that the
most significant problem was in
the identification, including
permanent identification of the
individual steer and of the owner,
and the age and breed of steer.
The Council recommended that
all steers be fire branded at the
beginning of the project before
they are shown in the exhibitor’s
county show, and certainly
before entrance in shows of state
level or higher. This iden
tification would have to be made
at least 120 days prior to the
show, using a code system that
would reveal the breed and the
state from which the entry was
made.
The Council also recommended
that all shows have a uniform
ownership requirement of at
least 120 days prior to their
respective show date.
Both the identification and
entry deadline recommendations
would help eliminate a practice
of some exhibitors who purchase
an animal at one show for exhibit
at later shows, Council members
explained.
Each breed association would
assume the responsibility of
determining eligibility of entries
by breed identity. In case of
disputes, a respective breed
representative or a committee
selected by the respective breed
association would rule and decide
on the exhibitor’s eligibility to
receive association premiums.
The Council restated earlier
USDA Proposes Changed Dairy
Inspection and Grading Rules
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture has proposed
changes in its voluntary dairy
inspection and grading program
to limit appeals for reinspection
or regrading of products con
taminated by filth or other
harmful substances.
Under the dairy inspection and
grading program, any interested
party who disagrees with the
original inspection or grading of
a product may appeal the fin
dings. The proposal would limit
such an appeal on contaminated
recommendations that carcass
contests should be combined with
regular established on-foot steer
shows with the top end of the
cattle being slaughtered and
entered in the carcass show, the
number determined by the
cooperation of local packing
plants.
Also, the group earlier
recommended that breed
associations not pay premiums in
on-foot classes where these
carcass shows are separate from
regular steer show classes at the
same fair or exposition or on
carcasses that do not grade
choice. It was further recom
mended that breed associations
support individual carcass
classes at the rate of 20 per cent
of the total premiums paid.
The Council is composed of
breed registries of Angus,
Brangus, Brahman, Charolais,
Hereford, Polled Hereford, Red
Angus, Santa Certrudis, and
Shorthorn breeds.
products to a review of the
sampling procedures and a
reinspection of the original of
ficial sample.
The limitation is being
proposed because such sub
stances are not evenly
distributed throughout a product.
Thus, reinspection using a dif
ferent sample, as may be done in
other appeals, might in this case
result in inaccurate findings.
The proposed changes also
would update some of the wor
ding in present regulations to'
reflect current inspection and
grading practices and
organizational structure.
The dairy inspection and
grading program is administered
by the Dairy Division of USDA’s
Agricultural Marketing Service,
and is paid for by the user.
The proposed amendments
appeared in the June 8 Federal
Register. Anyone wishing to
comment should send written
views and comments in duplicate
to the Hearings Clerk, U.S.
Department of Agriculture,
Room 112, Administration
Building, Washington, D.C. 20250,
by July 10. All comments will be
available for public inspection.
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