The evening began with an introduction over a charcuterie board, then moved to the live processing of two large sections of beef carcass. Patrick Micheels demonstrates how to butcher a section of a ...

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 ...

.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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...