Montana Beef Quality Assurance Certification Course

• Tutorial Main
• Introduction
  • Education Team
  • Intro to BQA
  • BQA History / Nat. Audits
  • 2005 Nat. Audit
  • Top 10 Industry Goals
  • Defining Quality Beef / Cattle Care
• Regional Curriculum
• Record Keeping
  • Effective Record Keeping
  • Information Recorded
• Care & Handling
  • Producer Attitude
  • Animal Behavior
  • Facilities & Transportation
  • Nutrition
• Feed & Additives
  • Feed
  • Additives
  • Handling / Monitoring
• Animal Health
  • Vaccines
  • Injections
  • Needles
  • Implants
  • Parasite Control
  • Antimicrobials
• Processing
  • Vaccinations
  • Dehorning & Castration
  • Identification
  • Weaning
• Carcass Quality
  • Quality Grade
  • Yield Grade
  • Other Quality Issues
• Marketing
  • Source & Age Verificiation
  • Market Timing
  • Cow Marketing
  • Feeder Calf Grades
  • Shrink
• Breeding & Genetics
  • Uniformity & Consistency
  • EPDs
  • Crossbreeding
• Biosecurity Basics
  • Disease Control
  • Learning Tough Lessons
  • Attention to Zoonotics
  • Agroterrorism
• Certification Process
• MT BQA Directives
• BQA Code
• Certification Exam

Funded, in part, by beef and veal producers and importers through their $1-per-head check off through the Cattlemen's Beef Board and state beef councils by the National Cattlemen's Beef Association.

2005 National Beef Quality Audit

Top Ten Beef Industry Goals for 2010

1. Clarify beef market signals that encourage production of cattle, carcasses and cuts that conform to industry targets.
2. Move expeditiously toward source and age verification to build supply lines of cattle to fit domestic and export markets.
3. Minimize production of excess fat.
4. Strive for uniformity/consistency in cattle production.
5. Consider tenderness in genetic and management decisions.
6. Target weights that optimize profitability without creating productivity or product–desirability problems.
7. Recognize the importance of marbling as a value–determining trait.
8. Use results of instrument assessments of cattle, carcasses and cuts to make genetic and management decisions.
9. Foster communication among sectors of the beef supply chain.
10. Select management practices that do not decrease the value of the hide.

Lost Opportunities Per Head Due To:
Quality Grade	−$26.81
Yield Grade	−$20.92
Weight	−$4.94
Hide and Offa	−$3.01
Total	−$55.68

Previous     Next

Copyright © 2006, Montana Beef Quality Assurance