The UW-Madison Division of Extension and Wisconsin Beef Council are offering two webinars that will review results from the 2022 National Beef Quality Audit. They will be held on January 18th, with a session starting at 11:30 a.m. for dairy producers and another at 7:00 p.m. for beef producers. Each program will last about an hour.
Michaela Clowser, Director of Producer Education for the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, will
present results from the audit and how they apply to dairy and beef farms in each respective session.
Since 1991, the Beef Checkoff-funded National Beef Quality Audit (NBQA) has delivered a set of guideposts and measurements for cattle producers and other stakeholders to help determine quality
conformance of the U.S. beef supply. Results from the 2022 NBQA indicate that the cattle industry is
producing a high-quality product that consumers want more efficiently and the industry’s primary focus
across the supply chain remains food safety.
To register for either program, go to:
Dairy – https://go.wisc.edu/7j2jc7
Beef – https://go.wisc.edu/0ho72t
Both webinars will be recorded for viewing and posted on https://go.wisc.edu/n55x3o within one week
of the live program.
“The NBQA is an important tool for the industry to identify where improvements are being made and
where there are opportunities to capture more value,” said Bill Halfman, Beef Outreach Specialist with
UW-Madison’s Division of Extension. “The good news is, overall, the beef industry is providing a quality
product to consumers that they enjoy.”
Based on individual interviews with stakeholders from across the cattle industry as well as in-plant
research, key learnings for fed cattle from the 2022 NBQA include:
- Market segments no longer consider food safety as a purchasing criterion, but an expectation.
- When comparing 2016 and 2022 NBQAs, the largest improvement was overall increased
efficiency across the beef supply chain. - Foreign materials continue to present a problem, but the industry is making strides to decrease
incidence. - There was an increase in usage of electronic identification (EID).
- There was an increase in the frequency of Prime and Choice quality grades, while Select
decreased drastically.
For more information about the 2022 National Beef Quality Audit, visit www.bqa.org.
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