These grades are determined by the USDA, and there's eight in total, but the other five are less common. Not all beef is graded — it's a voluntary service that producers have to pay for.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a pilot project on Friday that will allow more cattlemen and meat processors to utilize USDA carcass quality grades. The Remote Grading Pilot for Beef, ...

And does it always matter which grade you buy? Here’s a quick guide to what beef grades really mean. USDA beef graders inspect beef to assess its safety and grade its quality. A quality grading ...

“The more marbling in the beef, the more flavor and performance we get.” He reviewed the history of USDA beef grades, Prime, Choice, Select and Standard, wherein a combination of marbling and maturity ...

There are enough bullish supply and demand fundamentals in the cattle markets at present to make bulls feel confident that ...

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Smaller meat processing plants across the country are surviving and profiting by producing, and marketing products ...

(The USDA’s meat grades come out of its marketing branch, which is part of the reason why those blue stamps feature the USDA logo so prominently. The FDA’s logo doesn’t appear on the ...