USDA, Agricultural Marketing Service
1400 Independence Avenue, SW
Room 2746-South Building
Washington, DC 20250-0269
E-mail: DairyExportsQuestions@ams.usda.gov
Fax: 844-804-4701
William Francis
202-720-6274
William.Francis@ams.usda.gov
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is proposing a revision to the U.S. Standards for Grades of Carcass Beef. The revision would include dentition and documentation of actual age as additional methods of classifying maturity of carcasses for quality grading.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is revising the U.S. Standards for Grades of Cauliflower.
In response to a request from beef industry stakeholders, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is revising the live animal specification used for all Angus certified programs (Schedule GLA) to provide more objective phenotypic criteria for identifying eligible cattle. The specification is also being revised to reflect ownership by the American Angus Association, not AMS.
This manual is a guide to the uniform application of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) classes, standards, and grades for poultry, and to USDA’s voluntary poultry grading and certification services. It can also serve as the course outline for a poultry grading school.
It is designed primarily to aid poultry graders. However, it should also prove useful to those teaching poultry marketing, to quality control personnel in the poultry industry, and to volume food purchasers.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) has announced that it will suspend work related to the development of voluntary U.S. Standards for Grades of Catfish and Catfish Products.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is seeking public comments on its proposal to revise the U.S. Standards for Grades of Shelled Walnuts and the U.S. Standards for Grades of Walnuts in the Shell.
AMS proposes amending the standards to: (1) include red colored walnuts; and (2) remove the “Unclassified” section. The changes will modernize the standards, and help meet growing consumer demand by providing greater marketing flexibility.