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Random Beef Facts
100
A baby beef animal.

What is a Calf?

100

The four wholesale cuts of the beef animal.

What is round, loin, rib, and chuck?

100

Animals that are intended for slaughter after a period of feeding (usually younger in age).

What is a feeder animal?
100
USDA has 5 yield grades. Name the lowest.

What is 1?

100

Genus name for cattle.

What is Bovine?
200

Beef markets most desirable cattle characteristic.

What is black-hide color?

200

Beef animal nose.

What is a muzzle?

200

Hip height of a beef animals.

What is frame size?

200

Carcass value/quality is determined by 3 things.

What is carcass weight, yield grade, and quality grade?

200
Breed of cattle to represent a symbol of survival.

What is the Texas Longhorn?

300

Immature male beef animal that is less than 24months of age.

What is a Bullock?

300

Wholesale cut that produces the skirt steak.

What is the rib?

300

Shape to identify the most ideal muscle score on a beef animal. 

What is a square?

300

Amount of USDA beef quality grades.

What is 8?

300

Cow-calf operators who use a pasture-breeding systems will need one bull for every ______ to ______ cows.

What is 25 to 30?

400

Another way to brand an animal without using hot or cold items.

What is Tattooing?

400

Household items use ingredients derived from beef by-products.

What is: cosmetics, soaps, shampoo, photographic film, pet foods/toys, bone china, leather goods, candles, crayons, toothpaste, insecticides, shaving cream, fabric softeners, glad, paints, upholstery, and floor wax.

400

Warm carcass weight divided by the shrunk live weight of the animal.

What is slaughter dressing %?
400
4 most commonly used degrees of meat marbling.

What is prime, choice, select, and standard.

400
3 breeds to dominate the United States in the mid-1900's.

What is the Hereford, Angus, and Shorthorn?

500
Modern cattle are descended from two species of wild cattle.

What is Bos Indicus and Bos Taurus?

500

Most commonly bought cut of beef.

What is the NY Strip?

500

The year that class grade standards were published.

What is 1925?

500

Maturity classification age for A and B.

What is 9-42months?

500

Top five producing state for cattle and calves.

What is Texas, Nebraska, Kansas, California, and Oklahoma

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