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).
November milk cows were just 0.2 percent higher than a year ago. But, milk per cow was 2.2 percent higher. We can expect December milk production to be up similar to November resulting in about 212.4 billion pounds of milk for the year, an increase of 1.8 percent over last year.