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On July 8, USDA’s Agricultural marketing Service quietly reopened the rule book that decides whether your carcass grades Prime, Choice, or Select, and asked the public to weigh in on two specific proposed changes. It’s been decades since those standards have been reviewed, and it flew under most producers’ radar in a week dominated by falling futures and screwworm headlines. It shouldn’t have.
The grading scale that prices your calves was built for a different generation of cattle. Thirty years of DNA-marker selection, genomic EPDs, and precision feeding have produced animals that the current ruler wasn’t designed to measure. USDA is now asking whether the ruler needs to change. That’s not a bureaucratic question, it’s a question about where your carcasses land on the grid and what they’re worth when they get there.
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