Dairy Beef Quality Assurance

Dairy Beef Quality Assurance (DBQA) addresses the day-to-day management practices that influence the safety, quality and wholesomeness of beef and beef products.

The Dairy Beef Quality Assurance Program focuses on these important issues:

  1. Encouraging dairymen to move all injections given to cattle to the neck or shoulder in order to elimi­nate blemishes to valuable cuts of beef.

  2. Early culling to reduce the inci­dence of disabled or "downer" cattle.

  3. Following label recommendations with animal health products to prevent residue and potential antibiotic resistance problems.

  4. Handling cattle humanely during transportation to avoid bruises and injury vaccines work?

I am a dairy producer. Why should I care about beef production?