Canadian beef cuts
Canadian beef cut catalogue using CBGA naming. How Canadian retail differs from US (inside round, hip, wing steak), with cut-by-cut guides and grading context.
Canadian beef butchery is closely related to US conventions but uses several distinct trade names. The Canadian Beef Grading Agency (CBGA) is the Canadian counterpart to USDA, with grades A, AA, AAA and Prime corresponding loosely to USDA Select, Choice, Prime and beyond. Canadian beef trades extensively into the US market and the rest of the world; on retail labels you will see Canadian-specific names like inside round (US: top round) and hip (US: rump area).
The cut vocabulary below mirrors the CBGA grading system as it is applied to retail Canadian beef. Most US cut names are also recognized in Canadian butchery, with the regional variants noted in English equivalents.
Buyers in this market reference the CBGA grade. MeatGrader scores Canadian beef on its own universal scale and shows that grade only as a courtesy translation.