BEEF 706 - Beef Quality Management
Texas A & M University
College Station, Texas




January 11 - January 12, 2012
Kleberg Center & Rosenthal Center

Day 1

  
7:45 am Bus leaves for TAMU
8:00 am Introduction and purpose
  Evaluation beef carcasses & live cattle
  Review video of market finished steers & heifers
10:00 am Break
  Review beef harvest procedure
  Plant tours: Sam Kane & Cargill/Plainview via video
  Introduction to meat cutting
Noon Lunch
12:45 pm Suit up beef fabrication & fabricate the forequarter
1:30 pm Fabricate the hindquarter & value
5:00 pm Adjourn
6:00 pm Bus leaves for dinner
6:30 pm Managing feeder calves for beef cattle quality

Day2

  
7:45 am Bus leaves for TAMU
8:00 am Genetic selection programs & tools for beef cattle quality
  Factors that impact marbling
10:00 am Break
  Evaluating market cattle grid buying & branded programs
  Evaluating the eating appeal of the beef meat products
Noon Lunch
1:00 pm Review - market value finished cattle to boxed beef
2:30 pm Program Adjourn


  Registration - Please email Jill Hodgkins at jhodgkins@TXBEEF.org or register online at www.TexasBeef.info/706.  You may       call us at (800) 846-4113.

Hotel -Ramada, 506 Earl Rudder Freeway South, College Station, TX 77840. Call (979) 846-0300 and ask for the Beef 706 room block.  The cost is $60 (plus tax) per night.