Brazil has a cattle herd estimated at 190 million head in continuous growth and has made advances in the productivity rates. The production cost of Brazilian beef is among the lowest in the world, which brings great competitive advantage.

         The cattle-cut represents the largest share of Brazilian agribusiness, generating revenue of more than $ 50 billion per year, offering about 7.5 million jobs.

         Transform the Brazilian beef in product highlighted, with the added value, and not in another commodity, is a major challenge that the agribusiness chain have to face. Keep the country as a leader in that market, an even greater challenge. The solution of the problems for the Brazilian livestock is, necessarily, the organization of the production chain, for profound improvements in management practices applied by the productive sector for a better understanding of this chain for all the bonds, a better communication between participants, the responsibility each of them, but first of all, the self-knowledge. To understand the beef cattle, their choices, methods that help to improve their growth and development, have become an obligation of each participant of the largest share of Brazilian agribusiness.

         The set of agents, which comprises beef production chain, has a great variety: from highly capitalized farmers and small producers of meatpackers plants with a high technological standard, able to meet an external demand, the slaughterhouses need to meet minimum requirements of health legislation.