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Market Classes & Grading Flashcards

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1
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Why is marketing and grading important?

A

form of communication (know what you are getting)

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Palatability

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how good it tastes

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Market Classes are designed to accurately describe livestock that are being sold around the country

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True

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Groups of animals separated according to use

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Slaughter (ready)
Feeder (need more time)
Bred Heifers (pregnant)
Paris (cows with claves, ewes with lambs)

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Relative Merit

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Class

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Grades for slaughter animals fall into…

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quality, cutability, yield

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Cutability

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leanness or trimness

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OKIE & Crossbreeding

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(genetically bred ; brahman)

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How does USDA grade?

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Voluntary

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10
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Cattle

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Sex class; heifer, cow, steer, bull, bullock

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Swine

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Sex class; barrow, gilt, sow, boar, stag

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Sheep

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Sex class; ewe lamb, wether, ram, ewe

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Value based marketing

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bulls (bright red hamburger meat)

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Frame Size (feeder cattle)

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Small, medium, large (indication of when animal should grade choice)

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Muscle Thickness

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(1,2,3,4) (indication of muscle mass when animal reaches market /selling muscle)

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Feeder Pigs

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Grades correspond to slaughter pigs
U.S. #1-#4 utility and cull
Swine is commercialized

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Feeder Lambs

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Less than 100 lbs (ethnic market)

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Frame

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Large, Medium, Small
Predicts weight at which cattle will grade choice

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Muscling

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Thick 1, Average 2, Thin 3, Inferior 4
Predicts muscularity of cattle at slaughter

20
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Dressing Percent

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*carcass weight/live weight x 100

21
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What factors influence DP

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fill, fat increase, muscle increase, mud

22
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Animals are fattened when DP plays a major role in pricing equation

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True

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