Beef Quality

Animal welfare and well-being are phrases that have become common in animal agriculture, mainly due to the fact that consumers are becoming increasingly concerned with where their food comes from.

Mike Molitor, a seed stock producer from Zenda, Kansas, shares all the ways his customers market calves and how carcass quality matters regardless. This video news is provided by CAB and the American Angus Association.

The U.S. cattle industry’s Beef Quality Assurance (BQA) program was originally created in the 1980s as a grassroots-driven and voluntary process control system to better meet consumer demands related to the safety, quality and wholesomeness of beef.

There are many tools in the beef industry that producers can use to improve their operations. However, there are few tools out there that are as easy and as helpful as the beef quality assurance (BQA) assessment.

The USDA Beef Quality and Yield Grading system was designed to provide a basis for determining a fair price for animals at each stage of the beef production process. In addition, the system can help consumers select beef of desired quality.

BQA programs continue to add value

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