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Stock Journal Beef Week | 2022
Connecting the dots on carcase value

By SHAN GOODWIN In the area of yield, data making it into a premium
for every MSA carcase brand and not even making
ED meat supply chain over the past ten years MSA grade, Ms Stachan
information is being has been generated and said.
Rlinked together in new matched with eating On current prices, that
ways aimed at connecting quality information. could add up to as much
the dots on carcase value That’s more than 30 as $300 a head in lost
and shining a light on million carcases analysed. value, she said.
the pathway to the most On the same carcase

pro table animals. weight, the variation in lean Consumer demands MLA group manager for adoption
Meat & Livestock meat yield equates to 45 Linking supply chain data and commercialisation Sarah
Australia webinars have kilograms of available meat such as carcase feedback, Strachan.
honed in on how the value to sell, Ms Stachan said. animal health and on-farm
of an animal is likely a “If that was sold as trim, measurements would be more than half of all cattle
combination of how much at current prices it could be key to capturing value by processed in Australia
meat there is to sell, how a $400 difference,” she said. delivering a consistent presented for grading.
well it will eat and the What the data also and desirable product, That delivered an
impacts animal disease clearly shows is that according to Ms Stachan. estimated additional $157m
has on both those factors. when lean meat yield is “Over the past 20 years, back to the farmgate.
Group manager increased, eating quality we’ve seen price premiums There are now more than
for adoption and decreases and vice versa. paid to producers start to 200 MSA licenced beef
commercialisation Sarah “So there is a emerge and continue to brands, all commanding
Strachan outlined some compromise to be struck,” increase year-on-year where premiums.
fascinating insights Ms Strachan said. producers listen to what MSA managers
emerging from looking Analysis has also shown the market is asking of them continually run taste
at data collected as part there is more than a three and respond,” she said. testing panels to ensure the
of the industry’s eating point difference in MSA MSA, designed to program stays in touch with
quality program Meat index on average between address consumer desire what consumers are asking
Standards Australia and a diseased and non- to have known and of Australian beef and in the

connecting it with data diseased animal. consistent eating quality, past nancial year, 19000
from other industry That could mean the this past nancial year consumers were involved,

programs. difference between beef hit a milestone in that Ms Stachan reported.
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gains due to hybrid vigour and to the additive traits derived from the
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• When combined, these gains generally boost overall productivity by
10% to 20% in the Simbeef F1 (first cross) animal and by 20% to 25%
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