NEXT year is shaping up to be an important one for technology progress in analysing beef carcases for meat yield.
While the industry has made great strides in objectively assessing carcases for meat quality traits – with five or six technologies now accredited for use in assessing different beef traits including marbling, fat and meat colour and fat depth – yield assessment has been much slower to materialise.
In November 2016, the then MLA managing director Richard Norton surprised many stakeholders by boldly declaring…