Beef Production

3. a certificate or diagram of an animal’s ancestry.
6. the overall amount of product available at any given time.
8. describes the shape, form, and type of animal
10. traits that are in demand at the marketplace.
11. weaned animals under a year old that are fed until they are sold to a feedlot.
13. the weight of the carcass after taking out 85 cents per pound for live weight.
14. an animal’s ability to gain weight quickly and efficiently, produce a quality carcass.
15. The desirable presence of intramuscular fat.
16. the quantity of available retail meat cuts from the carcass

1. the percentage of live animal weight that becomes carcass weight, it’s usually around 63%.
2. born naturally without horns
4. a prediction of how future progeny of a given animal is expected to perform for a particular trait as compared with progeny of other animals within the breed.
5. consists of keeping mature cattle to sell to other producers
7. raise purebred breeding stock
9. a numerical description of cattle size used to predict growth patterns and the mature size of an animal.
12. the amount that could be purchased at a given time for a given price.
16. producers who feed beef animals out for the harvest market.