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It’s easy for frozen food processors to get caught up in the monotony of pumping out products day in and day out.

Annual Animal Slaughtering and Processing has declined 1 percent over the past 12 months with additional decline likely through the end of 2014.

Workers at poultry breading plants exposed to airborne breading dust are at risk of developing asthma, bronchitis and upper respiratory ailments.

Many small to mid-size meat & provisions businesses are family-run, second-generation businesses, with some who have beaten the odds and carried into a 3rd or 4th generation.

Lee Seelig of Main Street Wholesale Meats pens a butcher-friendly story for children.

Utah State University is the state’s Land Grant University located in Logan, Utah, situated north of Salt Lake City in Cache Valley.

As was done last year at this time, The National Provisioner surveyed you, our processor readers, on capital expenditure trends in your companies as part of our 2015 Economic Outlook.

If increased market volatility is the new normal in agriculture markets, then 2014 proved that processors are comfortable rolling with the punches.

While the traditional eggs and starches such as pancakes and waffles remain popular, more consumers are making meats key meal components as they seek options that are healthy, novel, tasty and convenient.

Newspapers and news Web sites have spent considerable ink (or kilobytes) this year talking about the rising prices of meat and poultry products, and some pundits questioned if there would come a price point where consumers had to stop buying meat altogether.