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As someone who has raised cattle (and hogs) on my family farm and butchered my own cattle that I raised from a bottle calf, I want to add a clarification on this. Grocery stores such as Costco cannot just ‘call their meats prime’. All commercial meat sold in the US is graded by government agents of the USDA, so Costco, and other retailers, that list a grade on the packaging must adhere to what the USDA grading is.Grocery stores such as Costco can call their meats prime, and they may be fairly graded as prime…
This has been a sore spot with small cattle operations that are not permitted to sell individual cuts of beef smaller than a quarter to individual customers unless it has been USDA graded. It will come as no surprise that USDA only inspects beef local to the Larger beef producers. Kentucky is the largest beef producing state east of the Mississippi yet I cannot go to one of the cattle farms local to me and buy a brisket.