Monday, March 9, 2009

Master Beef March 3, 5

Last week we had classes on Carcass Merit, Food Safety, and Herd Health. Carcass Merit went into yield grade and quality grade of beef. Beef quality grade (USDA prime, choice, select, etc) is basically determined by maturity (younger is better) and marbling (intra muscular fat, more is better).

Yesterday we had some steaks that Debby bought from Sam's Club, it was angus beef, USDA choice, they were very good.

Food Safety went over some of the things we learned in our Beef Quality Assurance class and introduced a few topics such as bio-security.

Our Herd Health class was taught by a D.V.M. and it was very good as well, the instructor had a lot of jokes to share with the class.

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