Kepak director says an R+ or R-3= is ‘a good performing animal’ and the ideal fat cover is a 3+ or 4+ Kepak Farm in Co Meath buys 100-120 cattle per week and finishes 5,000 cattle annually Kepak’s ...
Irish Journal of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1978), pp. 9-32 (24 pages) The use of scores for fatness and conformation for describing carcasses and predicting their ...
BROOKINGS, S.D. - Approximately 50 percent of the meat from a beef carcass comes from the chuck and the round and is traditionally sold at the meat counter at a lower price compared to cuts from the ...
A beef carcass is composed of 70 percent to 75 percent water. As it is chilled, water evaporation will cause the carcass weight to decrease. It is not uncommon for a chilled carcass to weigh two ...