Novel System and Method for Finishing Cattle for Whole Grind Primal Cut Processing and a Lean Product Produced Thereby

A novel and sustainable start-to-finish process for producing a premium ground beef product made from whole-ground primal cuts of beef, where the process begins with the cow-calf operation seeing the birthing of a calf at approximately one year prior to the desired date of slaughtering for retail, weaning the birthed calf until the calf is approximately six to nine months old, finishing the calf to the yearling stage (preferably at the main operation but optionally by a stocker/backgrounder), slaughtering the yearling for processing, and processing the yearling by deboning the carcass and whole-grinding the carcass to create a ground beef product that includes a mixture of primal cuts of beef.