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Beef Grades
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than in the past. Packers
may have to renegotiate
customary pricing practices
with both their buyers and
sellers. They will lose the
option of quality grading
and-or yield grading.
Presently some carcasses
with quality grade “highest”
tend to yield grade “lowest.”
Therefore, some packers
have found it advantageous
to yield grade the l’s, 2’s,
and 3’s but not the 4’s and s’s
and to identify the Prime and
Choice, but not the “lower”
grades. This option would-no
longer be available under the
proposed changes. The
option to grade or not grade
would remain.
Feeders: Those feeders
who attempt to feed a lot of
cattle until a given
proportion of the cattle
grade Choice may find that
this can be done with fewer
days op feed using less feed.
Feeders may have to give
greater consideration to the
reduction in cutability of
cattle as they are fed to
heavier weights. Discounts
for “overfat” cattle have
occurred in the past mainly
when there were a large
number of overfat cattle
coming to market or when
the cattle were extremely
and obviously “too fat.”
Greater attention may also
need to be paid to the
potential of purchased
feeder cattle.
Producers: The
elimination of conformation
from the grade standards
does not mean that this
factor is not important in
selection and breeding.
Breeders can concentrate
their efforts on musclins
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since variation in muscling
affects yield grade. Cattle
feeders may demand more
verifiable information on
feedlot performance of
calves.
POSSIBLE CHANGES
IN RESOURCE
ALLOCATION
The proposed changes
have the potential for in
creasing efficiency of beef'
production and hence
reducing expenditures
throughout the market
system. They may also
result in shifts in resource
allocation in cattle raising
and finishing.
Live cattle tend to trade on
an “average basis.” Present
prices for slaughter cattle
and beef carcasses may not
reflect true value differences
between individuals.
Therefore, feeders may feed
cattle longer using more feed
and perhaps a different type
of cattle than .would be the
case if the price received
reflected differences in
fatness.
As a beef animal gains
weight in the feedlot each
additional pound is com
posed of less protein and
water and more fat. Fat
requires more energy than
muscle and maintenance
requirements increase with
weight so feeding becomes
progressively more,, ex
pensive. Most animals also
move through the quality
grades from Good to Choice
to Prime, given enough tune
and feed. Marbling, con
formation, and dressing
percentage tend to increase
through the feeding period
while cutability decreases.
The feeding period would
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tend to be shorter, other
things the same, if there is a
price discount associated
with decreasing cutability
than if there is not. Similarly
the decrease in marbling
required (for animals -of
typical “A” maturity) im
plies that some animals
would grade Choice at a
lower weight with less
marbling under the proposed
standards than under the
current ones. If the feeder
plans to feed to the Choice
grade, then less feed will be
required.
Lighter weights mean less
meat as well as less fat. If
the same total amount of
meat is to be produced, this
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means either more cattle, or
cattle of a larger mature size
would be needed. Ap
proximately two-thirds of
the total feed energy utilized
in producing a 1,000-pound
slaughter steer is used by the
cow and its breeding sup
port, and the calf by the time
the calf is weaned. A
readjustment in resource
use from concentrate
feeding toward roughage
and breeding resources
could ensue.
(The authors are
agricultural economists with
the USDA’s Economic
Research Service, stationed
at Urband, 111.)
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