Fall is in full swing. Leaves are changing colors. You can smell a fire burning on a crisp evening and hear in the distance a high school marching band playing beneath the Friday night lights.
According to research conducted on behalf of The Beef Checkoff, 96 percent of consumers eat beef. The top factors that drive beef demand are things such as taste, nutritional value and safety of our products.
More further-processors are turning to NAMP and other meat and poultry associations for education and training on how to respond to the recent FSIS action declaring the “Big 6” non-O157 STECs as “adulterants.”
The landscape of food packaging is continuously observed, analyzed and discussed from countless angles — materials, formats, platforms, hot technologies, cost, environmental impact, and the list goes on.
According to the latest USDA forecast for turkey production, during the first six months of 2011, turkey meat production was 5.5 percent higher than the same period in 2010 (2.9 billion pounds).
Fresh pork occupies a unique, positive position in today’s retail meat case. Despite a tough economy and input costs that have spiraled upward for pork producers in 2011, the category is performing positively.