Check out the October 2019 issue of The National Provisioner, featuring our cover story on the partnership between Coleman Natural Foods and Budweiser, along with our annual State of the Industry Report on various sectors of the meat and poultry industry.
Consumers tend to use color for judging meat quality and safety, and oftentimes color is a critical component of their purchase decision. Therefore, industry considers meat color as one of the most important considerations for determining shelf life of products.
The partnership between Coleman Natural Foods and Budweiser helps the meat processor reach a more mainstream audience with its higher-end product line.
In Spring 2019, a partnership between two well-known brands — Coleman Natural Foods and
Budweiser, "The King of Beers" — materialized to create a line of cooked sausage and barbecue products aimed at the upcoming summer grilling season and beyond.
Experts agree blockchain's usefulness won’t be known for at least 3-5 years, during which time it will be modeled and evaluated by companies hoping to find transformative value in it.
Is 'clean label' really required? Meat and poultry processors are increasingly switching to additives with health halos to enhance the quality of proteins, but such changes are not always necessary.
Sometimes the advantages of using automated and robotic trimming and deboning equipment are not about the technology and equipment in and of itself, but the engineering of the whole line that can aid in speed and other efficiencies along with food and worker safety.
This spring, the Trump administration announced plans to shift food safety inspections in hog plants to plant employees, cutting as much as 40 percent of federal inspectors on slaughter lines in some plants.
As consumer demand branches off in every direction imaginable, meat and poultry processors are forced to traverse numerous trails and form new alliances, hoping to find success and avoid dead ends.
The meat and poultry industry faces challenges from every angle, in every form, as it heads toward 2020 with a mix of positivity and uncertainty on its mind.
The beef industry has much to celebrate in 2019. From continued growth in demand to having a sizeable presence on the dinner plate at home and in restaurants, consumers clearly continue to crave beef.
Where you stand is largely determined by where you sit. Ask a pig farmer about their outlook on the pork industry, and they'll likely talk about feed prices, federal, state and local regulations, the trade environment and the cutout value.
The trade war, African swine fever and a host of other issues from flooding to droughts have had major impacts on the meat and poultry industry. Those that are nimble in the marketplace are the most successful.
"Economic and political order has become disorder," said Dan Basse, president of AgResource, in market analysis comments at the 2019 Feeding Quality Forum in Amarillo, Texas.
While the protein market has seen its share of ups and downs this year, the turkey industry has focused on finding balance in the marketplace, investing in the future of the industry and identifying new markets and audiences for our products.
Members of the American Veal Association (AVA) continued their efforts this year in sharing their farm stories with others to learn how veal is raised today.
The University of Wisconsin-River Falls Animal Welfare Lab's summary of the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service's (FSIS) humane handling regulatory activity from 2018 identified ineffective stunning as the most common cause of suspension.
According to the North American Meat Institute (NAMI), 527,019 people work in the meat and poultry industry in production and packing, importing, sales, packaging and direct distribution of meat and poultry products.