Last year, I bought a whole beef carcass for the first time. I was helping with a barbecue event where the main attraction was the full steer cooked over wood in a pit built with concrete blocks. The ...

While many large meat processing plants slowed down or temporarily closed due to the spread of COVID-19 among their employees, many small, local meat lockers are seeing a boom in demand for custom ...

.Meat cutter Rich Dennison of Salem trims a beef carcass for processing at Rob's Horst Packing...by R. Michael Semple The appointment book at Rob Donaldson’s meat processing facility, Rob’s Horst ...

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 ...

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 ...