Beef tenderness is critical in consumer satisfaction with beef steak products. Current fed cattle valuation systems do … willing to pay more for tender relative to tough beef steak. This article develops a tenderness-augmentation to current fed … is present to improve beef tenderness through new price signals to producers. …

three quality categories of beef and three other meats and (2) to simulate how taste shifts have affected demands for meats … over time. We extend previous studies by disaggregating wholesale beef production into three quality categories: (1) USDA … Choice grade or higher, (2) USDA Select or lower, and (3) cow and bull beef. Innovative features of our empirical model …

With the recent development of technology to classify beef for tenderness, it is now possible for packers and retailers … to market brands of beef known to be consistently tender. The present experiment was conducted to determine consumer … impressions of Tender Select, a model beef brand comprised of cuts from tender U.S. Select carcasses. A telephone survey was …

Low and inconsistent beef quality has been blamed by some for the losses of beefï¾’s share of total meat consumption … of different cattle valuation methods may help improve beef quality because these mechanisms facilitate information … and valuation methods using fed cattle purchase data from 29 large U.S. beef packing plants for October 2002 through March …

The aim of the present study is to identify the factors associated to purchase of quality-labelled beef. For this … purpose a total of 364 surveys were carried out on buyers of beef in three Spanish cities. The sample was divided into three … groups of buyers according to the beef purchasing habits with a quality label. A logistic regression analysis was used to …

A lack of high-quality beef has been cited as one of the primary factors for the 50% decline in beef demand from the … sectors, substantial improvements in quality must include genetic progress. A hedonic analysis of four major U.S. beef …

domestic livestock and poultry industries, especially the beef industry. A recent study by the Center for Agricultural and … by the beef industry to prevent surpluses poses questions about how much distillers grains can be included in beef … rations, the effects of feeding distillers grains on beef quality, and how current consumption patterns are likely to change …

domestic livestock and poultry industries, especially the beef industry. A recent study by the Center for Agricultural and … by the beef industry to prevent surpluses poses questions about how much distillers grains can be included in beef … rations, the effects of feeding distillers grains on beef quality, and how current consumption patterns are likely to change …