Beef Quality Assurance, a program developed by cattlemen in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is central to ensuring beef products are raised with animal welfare, food safety and ...

Di Costanzo explains lower-quality fiber does not stay in the rumen long enough to be properly digested for these ...

Winners of the 2026 Beef Quality Assurance Awards were announced Feb. 3 during CattleCon 2026 in Nashville. The BQA Awards ...

Beef quality grades are determined by evaluating the maturity and the marbling of beef carcasses. As beef animals mature, their meat generally becomes tougher. This is because collagen, the ...

The American beef cattle sector has a problem. A good problem, but a problem nonetheless. American cattle are getting better quality grades than they used to. Investments in better genetics, feed ...

Lisa Peterson, North Dakota State University Extension livestock and beef quality specialist at the Central Grasslands Research Extension Center near Streeter, North Dakota, spoke about Beef Quality ...

USDA prime beef is not as plentiful as other grades like choice or select. This is because the standards used to award that label are hard to come by.

The United States Department of Agriculture launched a new remote beef grading pilot program which will allow rural meat processors to have more access to markets through the USDA’s official beef ...

The company has been considering the shift for a year.

Weighing up criteria such as the grade of a restaurant's beef, how it's prepared, and what else goes into the meat, we put together a shortlist of the restaurants we think are currently using the ...