Collegiate Resources
Inspiring future professionals in the red meat industry
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.
Pre-contest Information
ICMJ is on again in 2024!
We will hold our annual Northern ICMJ Conference in Rockhampton on the 3rd – 6th April 2023
The annual National ICMJ Competition will be held once again at Wagga Wagga, from Tuesday 2nd to Saturday 6th July 2024.
You can find information and training guides below on this page.
2023 National Conference Documents
Pre-Contest Information – updated April 2023
Operations Manual – updated April 2023
Competition Class Overview – updated April 2023
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
Training Resources
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
Training Downloads
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