National Ag News
USDA seeks comments on proposed revision to pork grade standards
Oct 26, 2017, 16:11 PM
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The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is proposing revisions to the US standards for grading pork carcasses.
Bucky Gwartney, an AMS international marketing specialist, says the current standards were last revised in 1985 and aren’t relevant to today’s production system, nor do they reflect the value in today’s pork products.
He says the revised standards would better segment the products. “That’s what standards are all about – providing segmentation to a product which also segments by value,” he says.
