Creative beef cutting

As beef-carcass weights get heavier, processors need to change the way they fabricate some cuts to provide appropriate portion sizes while retaining palatability and preferred cooking methods. During the NCBA trade show in Tampa, Colorado State University meat scientist Dale Woerner describes how some new cutting techniques can add value to the entire beef animal.

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