Collegiate Resources

Here you can find all the important documents and training information you need- as well as get some helpful hints, class judging practice and access useful meat images.

ICMJ is on again in 2025!

The annual National ICMJ Competition is fast approaching and will be held once again at Wagga Wagga, from Tuesday 8th to Saturday 12th July 2025.

The annual Northern ICMJ Conference was held in Rockhampton on Wednesday the 9th to Saturday 12th April 2025. It was a great success with over 140 attendees.

You can find information and training guides below on this page.

*NEW* 2025 National Conference Documents

Operations Manual – updated May 2025

Competition Class Overview – updated May 2025

2025 Pre-contest information:

Pre-contest information – Australian Teams – updated May 2025

Pre-contest information – International Teams – updated May 2025

After COVID-19 (coronavirus) forced the cancellation of  the 2020 annual conferences, ICMJ prepared a program of activities delivered from digital platforms to ensure students and young industry professionals can continue to access training and networking opportunities.

You can find these on our Virtual  Resources page on the website

*New* V6 ICMJ Beef training manual– updated February 2025

*New* V6.1 ICMJ Small Stock training manual – updated May 2025

*New* Retail and Saleable Items – ICMJ Training book (no visuals) – updated May 2025

*New* Retail Cuts training sheets with visuals– updated February 2025

*New* Saleable Items training sheets with visuals – updated February 2025

Training Videos

ICMJ have recently created these videos to help you see classes and how they are judged. The videos show judging on:

• Beef butts
• Beef carcase
• Beef shortloin
• Lamb carcase
• Pork carcase
• Pork primal

Lamb yield and value adding workshop with Dr Dave Pethick

Print out these Practice MSA worksheets (they have carcase details completed to practice your eating quality calculations). Don’t forget to also print out your MSA eating quality grid. Then you can print out the ANSWER sheets to mark yourself:

EQ Class Pricing Grid
EQ Class Worksheet

Pricings Class Grid
Pricings Class Worksheet

Practice EQ class 1
Practice EQ class 2
Practice EQ class 3
Answers EQ class 1
Answers EQ class 2
Answers EQ class 3

Training class 1: Beef Ribs
Training class 2: Beef Carcasses
Training class 3: Pork Carcasses

MLA Beef Cuts Poster
MLA Sheep Meats Cuts Poster
APL pork cuts poster

For more practice classes try some US websites. Please note, Australian product can vary in appearance but these are good websites to practice terminology and become familiar with the parts of primals/carcases.

The relevant online classes to look at on Texas A&M are: Beef carcase class (but note Australian carcases do not contain kidney, pelvic or heart fat); Beef rib class; Beef round class (this is called butts in Australia); Lamb carcase class.

Texas Tech University practice classes
Texas A&M University Practise Classes
YouTube video of pork carcase judging
YouTube video of taking notes on pork carcase class