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Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station Research Reports
1996; Kansas Agricultural Experiment Station contribution; no. 96-334-S; Report of progress (Kansas State University. Agricultural Experiment Station and Cooperative Extension Service); 756; Beef; Carcass; Prefabrication fat trimming; Meat yields
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Variation In And Effects Of Prefabrication Fat Trimming On Yields And Prediction Equation Accuracies Of Retail Product And Fat Trim, L.V. Cundiff, K.E. Gregory, Kenneth E. Kemp, R.M. Koch, Michael E. Dikeman
Variation In And Effects Of Prefabrication Fat Trimming On Yields And Prediction Equation Accuracies Of Retail Product And Fat Trim, L.V. Cundiff, K.E. Gregory, Kenneth E. Kemp, R.M. Koch, Michael E. Dikeman
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Carcass data from one side of 1,149 steers born from 1986 to 1990 were analyzed to develop means for carcass traits and retail product percentage by yield grades. Carcasses from 610 of these steers born from 1988 to 1990 were fabricated to two fat trim levels (.30 and .00 in.), with subcutaneous fat and intermuscular (internal) fat weighed separately. Subcutaneous fat from the primal round, loin, rib, chuck, brisket, and flank in excess of .30 in. plus the kidney knob were considered to constitute an industry "˜hot-fat trim equivalent' (HFTE). Quadratic regression curves were plotted for percent retail product (RP) …