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Contact person:  Pete Drone

• Scantron sheet used in this event.
• Retail Identification Card
• Retail Cut Identification Key
• Beef Carcass Evaluation Card
• Directions for filling placing score on scantron sheet
• Common mistakes bubbling in scan sheets

Information from related Meats Events:

• Fox Valley Meat Evaluation and Technology event
• Wisconsin State Meats event
• National Meats Evaluation rules

Contest Purpose:  To provide a competitive event for high school agriculture students, empahsizing skills in meat processing industry.

Objectives:

1. To develop students' skills in identifying wholesale and retail cuts of lamb, pork, and beef.
2. To develop students' skills in ranking carcasses, wholesale and/or retail cuts of meat.
3. To develop students' skills in grading pork and/or beef carcasses.

Event format:

1. The Meat Evaluation Contest will be held at Knebel's Processing Plant in Belmont.
2. The contest will be limited to the first twenty teams sending in and paying for their pre-registration.
3. A maximum of four members will be allowed per team.
   • The top three scores constitute the team score.
   • Students from schools having less than three or more than four people may judge as individuals. Please note the fee schedule when pre-registering.
4. All schools must provide their own hard hats and white frocks.
5. Students will not be allowed in the processing plant without a hard hat or frock.
6. Students must wear hard shoes. In other words, no tennis shoes.
7. Each student should have a clipboard suitable for the 8½" x 11" judging forms.