Aging Cattle: Agri-Practice 1984 - HTML
Aging Cattle: Feedstuffs, K. Eng Literature Ref. Table - HTML
Aging Cattle: Cattle Producers Library - Acrobat Reader
Aging Cattle: USDA-APHIS (dentition diagrams) - Acrobat Reader
Aging Cattle: JAS?, Lawrence, et-al-USDA - Acrobat Reader
NOTE: the USDA doc below is not CURRENT or OFFICIAL for the FSIS new standards
... it came from an archive download
Aging Cattle: USDA (30 month aging diagrams) - Acrobat Reader
USDA-A-MaturityClassificationDiscriptionCharacteristicsLabeled.pdf ... Table & Photos (one page) Posted Dec 2005
USDA-AMS-A-MaturityPhotos.pdf ... Outstanding set of photos of A00 to A100 ... Posted Dec 2005
USDA-AMS-BeefPhysiologicMaturity.pdf ...Detailed paper explaining USDA's evaluation ... Posted Dec 2005
USDA-BeefCarcassGrade&YieldStandards.pdf ... Posted Dec 2005
USDA - FSIS ... AGING CATTLE ...
USDA-FSIS Technical Service Center
USDA-FSIS HOW TO AGE CATTLE (Including as related to BSE Testing & SRM)
Other information related to Beef Export Verification can be found at
http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/arc/bev.htm ... http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/arc/audit.htm ... http://www.ams.usda.gov/lsg/stand/Japan.htm
Tremendous thanks to the publications for these very
valuable references.