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Guide To Identifying Meat Cuts

The pocket-sized Guide to Identifying Meat Cuts is a handy reference for consumers, students, and meat science professionals. It includes photos, descriptions, and cooking guidelines for over 200 retail cuts of beef, pork, lamb, and veal. US$3.00 (shipping included)

Available from American Meat Science Association, 1111 North Dunlap Avenue, Savoy, Illinois 61874 USA Phone: 217/356-5368 Fax: 217/398-4119 http://www.meatscience.org/

National Pork Board
P.O. Box 9114
Des Moines, IA 50306
Catalog of materials available at: http://porkstore.porkboard.org/home.php

On-Line Material

University of Nebraska Meats Science web site. Excellent on-line material including photos of wholesale and retail cuts and an on-line retail ID quiz. http://animalscience.unl.edu/meats/meats.htm

Home page for Texas A & M University meats extension information. Good section on meats judging. http://aggiemeat.tamu.edu/index.html

General Reference

The University of Kentucky has created a great on-line resource for the Stockmens Contest. Be sure to bookmark this one because you will want to use it often. Check out this website and dig deeper into each of the categories. Included are some on-line quizzes for your team members to check their knowledge. http://www.ca.uky.edu/agripedia/AGMANIA/

The Ohio State University has a good 4H Animal Science web site. The resources page specifically relates to stockmens or skillathon type contests. Project books contain information about Ohio's species resource books, which I would highly recommend. http://www.ag.ohio-state.edu/~4hansc/livestock/resources.htm

This is Kansas State University's Animal Science Youth Home Page. Several good pieces of info accessible from here. http://www.asi.ksu.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=58

Livestock Judging and Oral Reasons

http://animalscience.tamu.edu/ansc/index.htm
From the list at the top of the screen select Publications, then select Youth Projects. Various publications dealing with livestock judging and oral reasons are available. Author was member of National Champion 4H Livestock Judging Team, and Co-Coach of Champion Senior College Team.

Breeds

American Sheep Industry Association has excellent images of lots of breeds of sheep. Select the category to bring up a list of specific breeds. http://www.sheepusa.org/index.phtml?page=site/text&nav_id=1c816e07f1bfc429ed780acc8986ff8e

Oklahoma State University Department of Animal Science maintains a web site that includes a vast collection of information about breeds of livestock. There are many rare breeds shown as well as the more common ones. Check it out. http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/

Dr. Steve Schmidt at Auburn University has a real good on-line resource on breeds. It includes not only photos of breeds, but also an opportunity to quiz yourself. http://www.ag.auburn.edu/~sschmidt/breed_id2/index.html

Quiz Questions

http://pase.unl.edu/lifechallenges/resources.html#qbquestions

http://web.extension.uiuc.edu/equiz/

http://www.asi.ksu.edu/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabid=1144