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A grade in cattle is a means of evaluating carcass merits in slaughter cattle, and is done before cattle are slaughtered and after. Grades are divided into two criteria:
- Quality (carcass maturity, muscling, meat quality, external fat covering and marbling), and
- Yield (a measure relative to the amount of lean yield in a carcass).
Quality grade (USDA standards) comes in the following for cows, heifers and steers:
- Prime
- Choice
- Select
- Standard
- Commercial
- Utility
- Cutter
- Canner
Quality grade for bullocks include every grade above except Commercial, Cutter and Canner. Cows are normally not graded for Prime.
Canadian Quality grades are as follows:
- Canada Prime
- Canada AAA
- Canada AA
- Canada A
- Canada B1
- Canada B2
- Canada B3
- Canada B4
- Canada D1
- Canada D2
- Canada D3
- Canada D4
- Canada E
Yield grades (for the USDA grade standards) have Yeild Grades from 1 to 5 (acronyms are Y1, Y2, Y3, etc.). Canadian yield grades are only from Y1 to Y3.
Please see the related links below for more information and to see the differences between the Canadian and American quality and yield grading systems.
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