THE United States Department of Agriculture has launched a new trial aiming to give small beef processing plans access to meat grading – by allowing grading staff to assess carcases remotely.
According to the USDA, more than 90pc of America’s fed beef is graded by USDA certified graders. However, the department says most of the graded beef comes out of large processing plants and is underutilised by small packing operations.
The grading services come with a fee, which the USDA says can be unviable for small processors to pay for a grader to travel to facility and perform the service…
