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  2. Beef carcass classification - Wikipedia

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    The need arose for a common grading scale when member states of the EEC began operating in the common beef market in 1968 (EEC) No. 805/68 and price reporting to the EC became mandatory. In the UK, the Meat and Livestock Commission (MLC Services Ltd) is responsible for the classification of over 80% of the cattle slaughtered in Britain. The ...

  3. Rendering (animal products) - Wikipedia

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    Tallow, derived from beef waste, is an important raw material in the steel rolling industry, providing lubrication when compressing steel sheets. Meat and bone meal in animal feed was one route for the late-20th century spread of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad-cow disease, BSE), which is also fatal to humans. Early in the 21st century ...

  4. Beef cattle - Wikipedia

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    The meat of mature or almost mature cattle is mostly known as beef. In beef production there are three main stages: cow-calf operations , backgrounding , and feedlot operations. The production cycle of the animals starts at cow-calf operations; this operation is designed specifically to breed cows for their offspring.

  5. Meat-packing industry - Wikipedia

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    The William Davies Company facilities in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, circa 1920. This facility was then the third largest hog-packing plant in North America. The meat-packing industry (also spelled meatpacking industry or meat packing industry) handles the slaughtering, processing, packaging, and distribution of meat from animals such as cattle, pigs, sheep and other livestock.

  6. Cow–calf operation - Wikipedia

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    Cow–calf operations are widespread throughout beef-producing countries, [5] and the goal of a cow–calf operation is to produce young beef cattle, which are usually sold. True to the name, farm and ranch herds consist mostly of adult female cows, their calves, and young females, called heifers, which will produce calves once of breeding age.

  7. Cut of beef - Wikipedia

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    Beef is classified according to different parts of the cow, specifically "chest lao" (the fat on the front of the cow's chest), "fat callus" (a piece of meat on the belly of the cow), and diaolong (a long piece of meat on the back of the beef back), "neck ren" (a small piece of meat protruding from the shoulder blade of a beef) and so on.

  8. Total mixed ration - Wikipedia

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    Total mixed ration (TMR) is a method of feeding beef and dairy cattle. A TMR diet achieves a wide distribution of nutrients in uniform feed rather than switching between several types. A cow's ration should include good quality forages, a balance of grains and proteins, vitamins and minerals. [1]

  9. Beef tenderloin - Wikipedia

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    A thick slice of beef tenderloin A section of braised tenderloin of beef that has been seared in a heavy skillet on all 4 sides until lightly browned, about 3 to 4 minutes each. As with all quadrupeds, the tenderloin refers to the psoas major muscle ventral to the transverse processes of the lumbar vertebrae, near the kidneys. [2]