C22-lancastar Firming, Saturday, Dacambar 2,1993 (Continued from Pag* C 9) PCA Annual Membership Meeting Annual Cattlemen’s Award Banquet (cafeteria) Saturday, April 9 Cattle shows/parades (Small Arena) 5:30 PM 6:30 PM 8:00 AM 8:00- 10:30 AM 9:00 AM Special Junior Activities (Beef Skillathon) Special beef quality assurance demonstration (Sale Ring) Cattle Sales Begin Small Arena Kk3o-Polled Herefords 1:00- Angus 3:00-Limousin 10:30 AM Sale Ring ll:30-Simmental 2;00-Charolais 4:00-American High lands (There may be additional breed sales) 5:00- Repeat Special Junior Activities 7:30 PM 5:00- Cattle Stalled or Tied-out and Weighed Junior Cattlemen’s Association Dinner meeting (Room A-l) 7:30 PM 7:30 PM Sunday, April 10 Junior Heifer and Steer shows (Small arena) Continued Junior Activities 9:00 AM Phone contacts: Glenn Eberly, Expo Co-chairman 814/865-5857 Ray Grimes, Expo Co-chairman 717/334-1022 Sue Clair, Secretary & Youth Events 814/238-1233 Dave Seamans, Publicity & Youth Events 814/238-8909 Tammy Ballhaser, Youth Events 800/572-2020 Dan Card, Trade Show Co-chairman 717/653-8719 Lowell Wilson, Trade Show Co-chairman Larry Moore, Expo Treasurer John Comerford, Educational Symposium Tim Livingston, Chairman, Breed Shows & Sales Promotion of Select Grade Beef: According to Cattle Fax and other sources, the volume of Select Beef, as a percent of all beef graded, has expanded reaching 23 percent in 1992. The Select Grade originated in 1987 when Good grade beef was changed to Select grade. Select beef has somewhat less marbling than Choice beef, but Cattlemen Post Beef Expo Schedule 814/863-3659 (O); 814/238-5888 (H) 814/667-2168 THIS US WILL MAKE IT EASY TO BUY 814/863-3661 717/292-1547 Select beef from young, grainfed animals can satisfy most market segments. More retailers are promoting Select beef in their “lean” beef sales programs. According to Cattle Fax, the use of Select grade references in retail advertising has increased. Help Needed: There are always things to do at such events as the Expo, the Farm Show Cattlemen’s Exhibit, Field Days, and other PCA events. Helping with something such as the expanded youth activities at the Beef Expo can also be very gratifying. Let us know if you have interest in helping with one of these special events. Upcoming PCA director meetings: There are two association director meetings scheduled, one on 'Riursday, December 16 at 6:30 p.m., The Family House Restaurant, Mifflintown, and at Farm Show on Tuesday, January 11, 3:00 p.m., in one of the rooms near the cafeteria. If you have any suggestions for new programs or existing efforts, please contact the PCA offices or one of die directors. A list of all Cattlemen’s Association Directors is available from the PCA office. There will be five directors elected at the April 8,1994 mem bership meeting. If you or a colleague are interested in being nomi nated. let us know. Mythbusten Session held: Through a cooperative effort between the Pennsylvania Beef Council and the Pennsylvania Cattlemen's Association, the first Pennsylvania Mythbusten program was held on November 15-16 in Harrisburg. Those attending were provided with media training and received packets of invaluable information on refuting some of the incorrect information provided by animal activ ists against the beef and related industries. Leading the program was Barb Wilkinson, NCA information specialist, assisted by a private consulting group. Another Mythbuster session may be held within the next year. Those “graduating” from the Mythbuster program agreed tp provide-information to news media several times over the next 12 months. Everyone who attended was complimentary about the infor mation and training which they received. The Cattlemen’s Associa tion wants to thank the Pennsylvania Beef Council for their role in bringing this important program to Pennsylvania. When Is A Cow More Than A Cow?; The American National Cattlewomen are publishing their popular brochure in Spanish and in Japanese. The brochure stresses the importance of cattle by-products in society today. It offers more than 80 examples of common house* hold goods and personal items that contain by-products from cattle. For a copy, write to ANCW, P.O. Box 3881, Englewood, CO 80155, or call (303) 694-0313. Another very popular Pennsylvania-based effort emphasizing the by-products received from animals is available from the Students For Responsible Use of Animals club at Penn State. This exhibit was prepared in cooperation with the Animal Welfare Perceptions Project and -partially funded by the Pennyslavania Department of Agriculture. Cattleon feed report: He October 2 head of cattle were on feed in USDA’s' the largeit number reported since 1978, ings in the seven-state area were up an \ past year while placements were down Minimum backfat reconnundatii backfat requirement that was recommend carcass quality taskforce has been dropi tions would penalize too many carcass: grading Select, according to NCA. The ta al because of research conducted by Tei ado State University, and USDA (which t carcasses with less than 0.2 in li of ba tender. NCA study determines i fnsumei results of the NCA Strategic A ianceFi study was designed to test thehj ility of i non-conformity through closet coopen ments of the industry (punled, coi included evaluations of tendijhess am mechanical means and by cominer pam breed categories: British Choice, British and Continental Select Mostkueresting is that not all breeds and straiaofbccfc fy consumers equally, even when marl The consumer panel scored ill four gi level for tenderness. British Select score: nental Choice, British Choice, md Conti For overall palatability. British Choice British Select Continental Chtlte, and C profitability was pracdally itvj rsed, ev carcasses were valued acconu g to cui According to Dr. Gary Srail i of Col< headed the meat quality work,’ This stu< what many researchers have bl sn sayinj score alone doesn’t always ptej ctpalata bling scores were constant not ill breed: steaks with the same expeew [eating s Faculty in the Departmentofbairy am Comerford and Bill Henning) jhave inil strategic alliance field study with the c feed. As in the national study, ie carcass cass value loss evaluation wUm is extre involved in the beef productuwuidproce that up to $2BO per carcass wulost bee: too little or too much fat not M proper ai ses, etc. { Lean meat to part of i National Cholesterol Educj tinues to be part of diets high blood cholesterol levelsii a recent Food and Nutrition I |mmendt Prograr [tended a summary n Letter |
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