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Light-Weight Cattle
Production Expected
In Virginia
A quickened trend in Virginia toward production of light weight cattle probably will result from the revision .of Federal grade standards for steer, heifer and cow carcasses recently announced by the Production and Marketing Administration, according to a prediction by Curtis C. Mast, associate animal husbandman at V.P.L
Mast says there has been a gradual shift in Virginia from producing three-year-old to produc- . ing two-year-old grass-1 fed cattle for several years. Now, however, the trend is expected to become more pronounced.
The higher-quality young beef currently is graded “commercial.” Under the new set-up it will fall into the “good" grade, and as such is expected to be in greater demand, Mast says.
The new classification probably will ease the Virginia producer’s dissatisfaction over present grading for young beef, but there’s little chance of its helping heavy cattle, Mast predicts.
Briefly the revision includes combining the present prime and choice beef grades under the name prime, renaming the present good grade as choice, and setting up a new grade to be called good which will consist of-beef from the higher quality young cattle now graded commercial. Beef from older cattle will continue to be graded commercial.
Mast explains that the new "choice” beef is that which bps been most desired by the housewife, even though heretofore it has been graded "good.”
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