Kepak director says an R+ or R-3= is ‘a good performing animal’ and the ideal fat cover is a 3+ or 4+ Kepak Farm in Co Meath buys 100-120 cattle per week and finishes 5,000 cattle annually Kepak’s ...

A review has looked at a number of ways to try and ensure burgers served rare are as safe as those that are thoroughly cooked. The sale and consumption of burgers served less than thoroughly cooked ...

Irish Journal of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Vol. 7, No. 1 (1978), pp. 9-32 (24 pages) The use of scores for fatness and conformation for describing carcasses and predicting their ...

A beef carcass is composed of 70 percent to 75 percent water. As it is chilled, water evaporation will cause the carcass weight to decrease. It is not uncommon for a chilled carcass to weigh two ...