Sydni E Borders, Trent E Schwartz, Thachary R Mayer, Kerri B Gehring, Davey B Griffin, Christopher R Kerth, Keith E Belk, Lily Edwards-Callaway, John A Scanga, Mahesh N Nair, J Brad Morgan, Jarrett B Douglas, Morgan M Pfeiffer, Gretchen G Mafi, Keayla M Harr, Ty E Lawrence, Travis C Tennant, Loni W Lucherk, Travis G O'Quinn, Erin S Beyer, Phil D Bass, Lyda G Garcia, Benjamin M Bohrer, Jessica A Pempek, Andrea J Garmyn, Robert J Maddock, C Chad Carr, T Dean Pringle, Tracy L Scheffler, Jason M Scheffler, Alexander M Stelzleni, John M Gonzalez, Keith R Underwood, Bailey N Harsh, Crystal M Waters, Jeffrey W Savell
The National Beef Quality Audit (NBQA)-2022 serves as a benchmark of the current market cow and bull sectors of the U.S. beef industry and allows comparison to previous audits as a method of monitoring industry progress. From September 2021 through May 2022, livestock trailers ( n = 125), live animals ( n = 5,430), and post-slaughter hide-on animals ( n = 6,674) were surveyed at 20 commercial beef processing facilities across the U.S. Cattle were transported in a variety of trailer types for an average distance of 490...
2024: Translational Animal Science