Beef tenderness is critical in consumer satisfaction with beef steak products. Current fed cattle valuation systems do … willing to pay more for tender relative to tough beef steak. This article develops a tenderness-augmentation to current fed … is present to improve beef tenderness through new price signals to producers. …

Low and inconsistent beef quality has been blamed by some for the losses of beefï¾’s share of total meat consumption … of different cattle valuation methods may help improve beef quality because these mechanisms facilitate information … and valuation methods using fed cattle purchase data from 29 large U.S. beef packing plants for October 2002 through March …

The aim of the present study is to identify the factors associated to purchase of quality-labelled beef. For this … purpose a total of 364 surveys were carried out on buyers of beef in three Spanish cities. The sample was divided into three … groups of buyers according to the beef purchasing habits with a quality label. A logistic regression analysis was used to …

A lack of high-quality beef has been cited as one of the primary factors for the 50% decline in beef demand from the … sectors, substantial improvements in quality must include genetic progress. A hedonic analysis of four major U.S. beef …