Carcase Weight, Nutrition & Finishing Impact Dark Cutting
Using data collected on 204,071 Meat Standard Australia (MSA) graded carcases at one Western Australia processor from February 2002 till December 2008, Beef CRC researcher Peter McGilchrist and colleagues from Murdoch University investigated a...

European Cheese Market
The EU cheese market is changing, forcing cheese suppliers to rethink their business models and explore new opportunities for growth. The main drivers behind these changes are falling growth rates in the EU, more pressure on margins because of higher...

Italian Dairy Produces Novel Products
To many people milk is just milk, but one Italian dairyman is thinking outside the box, reports Stuart Lumb for TheDairySite.

A Supply Chain Approach To Beef Quality
Managing for beef quality isn’t an arbitrary end-product objective, panelists pointed out at a Cattlemen’s College session.

Antihelmintic Residues In Milk
Michelle Whelan won the RDS gold medal for best presentation and the IFSTI president’s medal for best food science and technology presentation at the annual Teagasc Walsh Fellowships seminar in the RDS for her presentation on ‘Determination of...

Nutritional Composition of Forage-Fed Ruminant Meat
A major analysis of the, sometimes contradictory, scientific evidence by the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) concluded that high red meat consumption increases the risk of bowel cancer, while high white meat consumption does not, the Soil Association...

Is There A Favourable Relationship Between Carcase Yield And Tenderness?
Meat quality and meat yield goals can both be achieved if included in a value-based marketing system for beef carcase evaluation, says experts from the Scottish Agricultural College.

Growing Global Market For Offal
Global exports of offal are worth about £140 million - about eight per cent of the total global meat product market, writes TheCattleSite senior editor, Chris Harris.

Report Shows Processed Meat And Bladder Cancer Link
A new report from researchers at the US National Cancer Institute, Imperial College in London and AARP in Washington suggests that there is a "modest support" for an increased risk of bladder cancer from eating processed meat products.

Processed Meats May Raise Heart Disease Risk
Researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH) have found a link between an increased risk of heart disease and diabetes and eating processed meats.

Quality Grades: Why The Recent Upswing
This paper by Larry Corah and Mark McCully explores the reasons for the unprecedented 7.5-percentage-point shift in carcase grades between 2007 and 2009. Distillers grain byproducts and genetics play major roles.

Adding Value To Your Milk
With fluctuating milk and grain prices, there may be uncertainty over future profits for many producers. Taking things into your own hands may be one way to solve this. Charlotte Johnston, TheCattleSite junior editor, speaks to dairy farmers, who have...

Detecting Carcass Contamination with Spectroscopic Imaging
A preliminary investigation analysed markers of faecal contamination in cattle diets in a bid to improve meat safety, says M.R.F. Lee, V.J. Theobald, M. K. Theodorou, Veberg Dahl, F. Lundby and J. P. Wold. This paper was from the international conference...

Arcobacter: Genome of Foodborne Pathogen Exposed
Mapping of the genome of Arcobacter butzleri by scientists at the USDA Agricultural Research Service is a first step in control of this foodborne pathogen. Previously thought to be a member of the Campylobacter family, it has been found in farm...

Beef Grades and Carcass Information
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) uses a dual grading system for beef carcasses: a Yield Grade for estimating cutability and a Quality Grade as a comprehensive evaluation of factors that affect beef palatability, says the this Mississippi...