Trade: red meat processing and sales
From beef, lamb and pork yielding guides to direct selling information, we have a range of resources for meat producers and retailers.
Whether you are a livestock producer, a small family-run butchers, a large cutting plant manager or a farm shop owner, our information is designed to support your business.
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AHDB’s free, award-winning Meat Education Programme
This FREE programme is suitable for all colleagues (we especially think that some of the entry level modules are suitable for new entry line workers / butchery colleagues and front of house colleagues for a basic refresher and answers lots of questions that they get asked frequently).
Designed for butchers, chefs and anybody in between, our practical butchery and theory training modules cover beef, lamb and pork cuts, cooking with red meat and customer service.
Online assessments and certifications are available for the theory modules and are completely free of charge. A handy educational tool for those in the meat industry, the MEP is aligned with the Butchery Apprenticeship (Level 2) and the Advanced Butcher (Level 3).
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Meat Purchasing Guide
More and more meat products and specifications have become available for retail and catering.
This has resulted in inconsistencies in products and standards. The variations in meat carcasses and processing methods have also contributed to these inconsistencies.
To help bring consistency to the industry, we have developed a meat purchasing guide, a completely new specification and coding for beef, pork, veal, lamb and mutton products. This guide features approx. 800 cuts from the beef lamb and pork sectors (including veal and hogget).
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Quality Standard Mark meat – tools and resources
Everything you need to make the most of Quality Standard Mark meat. Resources include our calculator tools to help improve your profit margins, yield and cutting guides full of practical knowledge and our essential Meat Purchasing Guide featuring more than 700 quality meat cuts.
- * Meat Purchasing Guide
- * Yield calculators
- * Profit from various aspects of the carcass and species
- * Beef muscle guide
- * Steak range
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Image library | AHDB
Are you planning a promotional campaign? Perhaps you need pictures for your next advert or social media post?
Choose from thousands of images of raw meat, cooked recipes and landscapes in our image library.
These images are wholly owned by AHDB and as such are free for you to download and use on digital and printed media (all we ask is that a reference to AHDB is made to enable viewers/readers to know the origin of the image).
The images are mostly in very hi definition.
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