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Tyson Foods will launch a new promotion featuring savings on Wings, Boneless Wings, and 7UP brand beverages for the football playoff season.

As a result of the transaction, Leucadia owns a 78.95% interest in National Beef.

Pork stockpiles in the U.S. rose 5.8 percent at the end of November from a year earlier.

The USDA estimates that 2012 U.S. per capita beef consumption for 2012 will be around 54.1 pounds, a drop from 2011's estimate of 57.4 pounds.

Holton, with more than 30 years of pork industry experience, is a 17-year veteran of Seaboard Foods.

Japan halted beef imports from a JBS Swift plant in Grand Island, Neb., after finding material prohibited under rules to control the risk of mad cow disease.

Hormel Foods Corp. announced the retirement of James R. Hoffman, vice president of Hormel Foods International Corporation for the Americas.

raising a pound of beef in the United States today uses significantly fewer natural resources, including land, water, feed and fuel than in the past.

Land O’ Frost announced it has signed an agreement to purchase Wimmer’s Meats, a leading provider of specialty sausages and hot dogs based in West Point, Neb.

Cargill's Springdale, Ark., turkey processing plant that was closed in October after an outbreak of Salmonella has reopened.