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While the seafood industry has its challenges that are unique to the animal protein industry, consumer trends tend to overlap across all types of proteins. The same demands that are affecting the pork, beef or chicken sectors have an impact for seafood as well.

Here are 5 reasons how regular livestock weighing can benefit the small producers and processors alike.

The American Association of Meat Processors, along with others in the industry, are making great progress in our work with FSIS to come up alternatives better suited to help small processors meet the regulatory requirements.

Each August, Glier's takes over Northern Kentucky's Newport on the Levee park for a four-day festival called Goettafest. The festival, which attracts more than 200,000 people, features game booths, two music stages, drinks, a children’s play area and, of course, goetta.

At the American Meat Science Associations' 71st Annual Reciprocal Meat Conference in Kansas City, Missouri, industry leaders discussed how genetics and consumer trends drive the desire for the best beef.

Chad spoke with AAMP recently about his involvement in the industry and what he hopes to accomplish during his term as president.

I want to update you on the progress of some of the regulatory matters that Nelson, AAMP's outreach specialist, and I have been working on. We just received the final version of the Foreign Materials Best Practices paper that has been a work in progress for a few years now.

Today's unemployment numbers are historically low, and companies across the country in every sector of the meat industry are facing employee shortages.

Thoughts on Pack Expo, robotics and the future of the meat industry.