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!

We will hold our annual Northern ICMJ Conference in Rockhampton on Wednesday the 9th to Saturday 12th April 2025

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

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

2025 National Conference Documents coming in April 2025

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

*New* V6 ICMJ Beef ONLY Training Manual– updated February 2025

V6 ICMJ SMALL STOCK Training Manual – COMING APRIL 2025

*New* ICMJ Retail Cuts Training Sheet with images– updated February 2025

*New* Saleable Items Training Sheet with images – updated February 2025

Retail and Saleable Item Inserts for Training Manual V5 – 2018

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