USDA prime beef is not as plentiful as other grades like choice or select. This is because the standards used to award that ...

Beef quality grades are determined by evaluating the maturity and the marbling of beef carcasses. As beef animals mature, their meat generally becomes tougher. This is because collagen, the ...

Don't just settle for any cut of beef when you order from a steakhouse. Look out for this important signifier of quality and ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack recently announced a pilot program to allow more cattle producers and meat processors to access better markets through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s official ...

The American beef cattle sector has a problem. A good problem, but a problem nonetheless. American cattle are getting better quality grades than they used to. Investments in better genetics, feed ...

The United States Department of Agriculture launched a new remote beef grading pilot program which will allow rural meat processors to have more access to markets through the USDA’s official beef ...

DENVER -- Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a pilot program to allow more cattle producers and meat processors to access better markets through the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s official ...

Select, Choice and Prime are common terms that some customers are familiar with when selecting beef at the retail case. But have you ever wondered about how they are determined? Read the Progressive ...

Beef labels can be confusing at the meat counter, especially when Prime and Choice sit side by side with noticeably different prices. To many shoppers, those words feel like vague quality signals ...

BAKER CITY — A new federal program for grading beef quality could add hundreds of dollars of value per head of cattle in Baker County and elsewhere. The remote grading pilot program, which debuted ...