Sustainability has become a common word at business meetings across the country, and it is rapidly becoming an expectation for today’s production systems.
Record-high feed costs during the second half of 2012 and undoubtedly at least for the first half of 2013 make any predictions about the chicken business in the new year more difficult and precarious than usual.
Today, there are approximately 80,000 sheep ranches and farms in the United States that produce about 200 million pounds of lamb each year for the U.S. market.
The turkey industry faces growing economic problems, fueled by the terrible drought in the Midwest and a misguided federal ethanol policy that is turning a feed shortage into an acute feed crisis.
This special report commemorates the inductees into the Meat Industry Hall of Fame’s Class of 2012, with standard biographies of each inductee plus an exclusive Q&A on that inductee’s career in the meat industry.