Announcement comes as part of efforts to increase competition, level the playing field for family farmers and ranchers, and build a better food system.

They say you can’t have too much of good thing; however this does not seem to be the case with mergers and meat associations.

The list of facilities visited in the past year by editor-in-chief Andy Hanacek continues to impress, featuring some of the biggest companies and most innovative plants in the industry!

Aside from a select few breeds of cattle, most consumers enjoy their beef without thinking much about the type of beef.

Rail and intermodal is a key ingredient to nearly any transportation strategy.

Yes, yes, I know what people say — New Year’s resolutions are made to be broken.

The turkey market downturn that began in 2012 continued into this year.

This month’s cover story brought me to Crescent Springs in Northern Kentucky. (Note to readers: Do NOT call Northern Kentucky “the Cincinnati area” to anyone who’s from there.)

This past week I attended the first meeting of a newly formed association, the North American Meat Association (NAMA), a consolidation of National Meat Association (NMA) and North American Meat Processors (NAMP).

The meat-processing industry, as evidenced by the Top 100 Report, continues to be both extremely stable in some aspects and wildly erratic in others. The companies at the top of the list — Tyson Foods, JBS USA, Cargill Meat Solutions and Smithfield Foods — did not break rank from last year.