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Certification/Classification Targets for Beef

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 November 2017

R M Crabtree*
Affiliation:
ADAS/MAFF, Burghill Road, Westbury on Trym, Bristol BS10 6NJ
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Successive UK Governments have supported the market for finished cattle by various subsidy schemes. One of these depended on making up the difference between the average market price and a predetermined guaranteed price on an individual animal basis when market prices fell below the guaranteed price. To operate this deficiency payment scheme the classes of stock eligible for payment had to be defined and their average market price calculated, and so the concept of a “certification standard” or grade evolved.

Type
Classification and Grading of Meat Animals: Objectives and Future Prospects
Copyright
Copyright © The British Society of Animal Production 1987

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