Do we as cattlemen realize how confusing a cattle show may seem to anyone that walks up to a showring or the stall. I am sure some of my readers have been quite confused a number of videos and photos I have been posting. If anything I hope you can sense from the videos how exciting it is to be out there in the showring and be selected as winner of the whole story (Grand Champion). I posted a little bit about why we show cattle here.
During the National Western Stock Show the Boy's cousin came down the day of the Bull show to watch his family show. Now he has been to a cattle show before, and for a "city" kid knows quite a bit, but his comments during the show still cracked me up.
aka - Why are they taking pictures of the their butts and not their heads?
The butt or hip as a cattlemen might refer to it by is the business end. The end that makes the cattlemen money. In the hip we find the most valuable cuts of mean - like the loin, roasts, t-bones and ribeye. The front of the animal contains a lot more bone and less valuable meat, that is usually ground up in hamburger.
Clik on this cutting cuts of beef chat to enlarge. Thanks to Loney Lane Farms for an image.
If you need a cutting card of you own email me (crystal.cattle@gmail.com) and I would be glad to send you one.
Have you been been to cattle a cattle show, and do you have questions? Let me know!
You have read this article agriculture advocacy /
cattle /
National Western Stock Show
with the title The business end of agriculture. You can bookmark this page URL http://miavamp22.blogspot.com/2011/01/the-business-end-of-agriculture.html. Thanks!
