Verde has had to speed up a planned expansion as demand for its grass-fed beef skyrockets during the Coronavirus pandemic. Founder/CEO Dana Ehrlich speaks to Independent Processor editor-in-chief Sam Gazdziak …

Meat and Poultry Industry News

Post-COVID-19 world should excite, not frighten processors

What history tells us about the meat industry’s resilience and its ability to create a new, better normal in the wake of catastrophic events. …

Deli

Reinventing packaging without reinventing the wheel

Sam Gazdziak

Land O’Frost makes a packaging update. …

Meat and Poultry Processing

Fresh Picks supports small processors, farmers

Independent Processor editor Sam Gazdziak talks with Fresh Picks co-founder Irv Cernauskas about how the company is thinking local in order to supply the Chicago-Milwaukee area. …

Coronavirus Coverage

Tales from the Front Lines: Woods Smoked Meats

Sam Gazdziak

Ed Woods of Woods Smoked Meats talks about how the demand for meat is unlike anything he’s ever seen in his 40+ years in the meat industry. …

Regulations

How to respond to COVID-19 employee walkouts and demonstrations

Travis Koch of Overstreet, Homar & Kuker discusses how processors should handle and respond to employee walkouts and demonstrations in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. …

Meat and Poultry Industry News

Feeding the world vs. employee health and safety: a balancing act

The National Provisioner 2019 Top 100 Meat and Poultry Processors

Celebrating the Year of the Independent Processor

Sam Gazdziak

Independent Processor will honor small and mid-sized processors for their heroic actions during the COVID-19 pandemic, and we want to hear from you.

Meat and Poultry Industry News

Demand for grass-fed beef to remain deferred amid COVID-19 uncertainty

Industry News

High nutritional composition to remain grass-fed meat market’s primary USP (unique selling proposition).

Classifieds

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Meat and Poultry Processing

Moving meat, poultry products in safe, sanitary fashion

Navam Jagan

One of the greatest challenges facing the meat and poultry industry is how best to supply safe and nourishing produce as the global population continues to rise.

Sausage

Inspecting sausages with next-gen tech

Longhini Sausage Company has been crafting Italian sausages and other specialty meat products in New Haven, Conn., since 1950. To protect its growing customer base, Longhini began looking for the best metal detection options and turned to Mettler-Toledo Safeline Profile Advantage detectors.

Packaging

Resealable packages offer much more

Chip Bolton

Resealable packaging has become a reasonably common feature available to shoppers, especially among ready-to-eat meats. As with next-day delivery, we love the convenience. Use what you want, reseal the package and put it in the fridge. But, is that all? Is there more to resealability than cursory convenience?

Beef

Infused flavor

Megan Pellegrini

Consumers want sweet and spicy marinades with interesting flavor profiles, but clean ingredients.

The National Provisioner

May 2020

Check out the May 2020 edition of The National Provisioner: Top 100 Processors Report, USDA enforcement actions, spare parts know-how, foreign material contamination prevention and much more!

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Independent Processor

April 2020

Check out the April 2020 edition of Independent Processor: The new generation of Diestel turkey ranch, coronavirus recommendations for the food industry, portion control, AAMP and much more!

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