Published in the Official Gazette: New regulation in beef prices! Hot carcass weight will be taken as basis

Turkey’s Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry amended its cattle carcass classification regulation, published in the Official Gazette, shifting the basis for pricing carcass beef to hot carcass weight. The change is intended to standardize how market prices for carcass beef are set, replacing prior classification criteria with a weight-based reference. It matters because a uniform pricing benchmark can reduce disputes between producers, slaughterhouses and retailers over carcass valuation. Traders and meat processors will watch how quickly the new reference price is adopted in wholesale transactions and whether it narrows spreads along the supply chain.