Animal Industry Report Animal Industry Report AS 663 ASL R3137 2017 Influence of eedF Efficiency on Meatenderness T Attributes of Beef Steers Christopher Blank Iowa State University,
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[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ans_air Part of the Beef Science Commons, and the Meat Science Commons Recommended Citation Blank, Christopher; Russell, Jason; Lonergan, Steven; and Hansen, Stephanie (2017) "Influence of eedF Efficiency on Meatenderness T Attributes of Beef Steers," Animal Industry Report: AS 663, ASL R3137. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31274/ans_air-180814-555 Available at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/ans_air/vol663/iss1/10 This Beef is brought to you for free and open access by the Animal Science Research Reports at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Animal Industry Report by an authorized editor of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Iowa State University Animal Industry Report 2017 Influence of Feed Efficiency on Meat Tenderness Attributes of Beef Steers A.S. Leaflet R3137 mean of the larger population were then selected for further analysis, including the twelve greatest (highly FE, HFE, Christopher Blank, Masters Student; negative RFI) and least efficient (lowly FE, LFE, positive Jason Russell, Ph.D. Student; RFI) steers from their respective growing phase diets. Steven Lonergan, Professor in Animal Science; Within growing phase diet type steers were assigned equally Stephanie Hansen, Associate Professor in Animal Science to a byproduct-based finishing diet (ISU-Byp) or a cracked corn-based finishing diet (ISU-Corn) for 87 d (Table 2; n = Summary and Implications 6 per treatment combination).