Types of Cuts of Meat. While many people typically enjoy the flavors of many different types of meat, they donât always know the differences between cuts of meat. This information can be very useful when buying and preparing meat, because the meat cuts are from specific areas of the animalâs body.
ERS food availability data suggest that Americans have been consuming less fluid milk since the 1940s. Data on per capita consumption since the 1970s (USDA-ERS, 2013a) 4 reveal a decrease in average consumption from about 0.96 cups to about 0.61 cups of fluid milk per day over the past 40 years (fig. 1).
More than 20 percent of all farmers are beginning farmers (in business less than 10 years). The pounds of feed (grain, forage, etc.) a dairy cow needs to eat to produce 100 pounds of milk has decreased by more than 40 percent on average in the last 40 years.