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Along with in-person auction registration on January 18, 2012 in Nashville, TN and January 25, 2012 in Denver, CO, online registration will be available.

The first blizzard of the season has dumped as much as 15 inches of snow in the southern Plains, disrupting beef production, and halting business in the cash cattle markets, Reuters reports.

Net sales for fiscal 2011 were $1.978 billion compared with $1.925 billion for fiscal 2010.

Dietz & Watson has added to its ham line.

Tyson Fresh Meats Inc., a Dakota City, Neb. establishment, is recalling approximately 40,948 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7.

The worst drought in Texas history has led to the largest one-year decline in the state's cattle herd.

Fully DNA-traceable fresh premium Alberta pork from Sturgeon Valley Pork, an Alberta, Canada, pork processor, has been introduced at all 15 Freson Bros. grocery stores in Alberta.

Zhongpin Inc. announced that trial production at its two newest chilled and frozen pork products plants, in Jiangsu and Jilin provinces, began on December 16, 2011.

Hannaford, a Scarborough, Maine-based grocery chain, is recalling an undetermined amount of fresh ground beef products that may be contaminated with a strain of Salmonella Typhimurium.

B. Roberts Foods, a Charlotte, N.C. establishment, is recalling approximately 130 pounds of individual serving meatloaf entrées because of misbranding and an undeclared allergen.