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<blockquote data-quote="paul swisher" data-source="post: 362482" data-attributes="member: 49"><p>The Tenderness test you described was developed in 1997 and written up in Agriculture Research Nov 1999. It even had a picture of Steven Shackelford with the equipment. It estimated a high volume operation could run up to 400 carcasses per hour without interfering with standard processing rates. Optical Quality grading is already done in a number of processing plants. Being a Pinzgauer breeder I have long promotes Tenderness as the key factor in determining value but those who promote fat/marbling, even though marbling contributes less than 10% to tenderness, seem to be winning. There is no reason to go to the expense of installing the equipment if the advertising promotes a different thing. If you look at the MARC Germplasm Evaluations half of the popular breeds that are black wouldn't make it - less than 12 lbs shear force. You read over and over the consumer wants tenderness yet you cant get paid for it and until you do there won't be any real changes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="paul swisher, post: 362482, member: 49"] The Tenderness test you described was developed in 1997 and written up in Agriculture Research Nov 1999. It even had a picture of Steven Shackelford with the equipment. It estimated a high volume operation could run up to 400 carcasses per hour without interfering with standard processing rates. Optical Quality grading is already done in a number of processing plants. Being a Pinzgauer breeder I have long promotes Tenderness as the key factor in determining value but those who promote fat/marbling, even though marbling contributes less than 10% to tenderness, seem to be winning. There is no reason to go to the expense of installing the equipment if the advertising promotes a different thing. If you look at the MARC Germplasm Evaluations half of the popular breeds that are black wouldn't make it - less than 12 lbs shear force. You read over and over the consumer wants tenderness yet you cant get paid for it and until you do there won't be any real changes. [/QUOTE]
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