Collegiate Resources

Find all the resources you need pre-contest and to get into training – as well as get some helpful hints, class judging practice and access useful meat images.

The National ICMJ Competition is held annually in Wagga Wagga, within the first two weeks of July.

The Northern ICMJ Conference is held annually in Rockhampton, within the first two weeks of April.

Pre-contest information – Australian Teams – updated May 2025

Pre-contest information – International Teams – updated May 2025

Operations Manual – updated May 2025

Competition Class Overview – updated May 2025

*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

Check out our videos giving you the run down on 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

You can find additional webinar recordings, podcast episodes and training videos on the Virtual  Resources page

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