Ivan Luiz Brondani

TL;DR: The carcass physical composition, meat quality and cholesterol content in the Longissimus dorsi muscle of 24 Red Angus steers finished in feedlot with different weights were evaluated and the meat tenderness was not affected by slaughter weight and was classified as tender and very tender.

TL;DR: The animals have greater feed intake and rumination efficiency when fed higher levels of concentrate, and when these animals are finished in feedlots with different concentrate levels in the diet.

TL;DR: The use of summer cultivated pastures with correct management, allows high weight gains per animal and per area, being an alternative for intensive beef cattle production.

TL;DR: The carcass characteristics from young bulls or steers from different breed compositions of Charolais x Nellore were the objective of this study and no interaction was observed between breed composition and sexual condition, for any of the studied variables.

TL;DR: In this article, the longissimus dorsi muscle was used for the meat evaluation, and the results showed that the 3/4 Ne animals had larger longissmus dorsi area, 28.10% for ether extract and 64.01% for amount of marbling.