USDA Proposes Decreased Membership On Beef Promotion Board

April 6, 2011 USDA

The U.S. Department of Agricultures Agricultural Marketing Service is proposing to decrease membership on the Cattlemens Beef Promotion and Research Board from 106 to 103 members. The law authorizing the board requires the boards size to change with shifts in cattle inventory levels.

Goat Meat, The Final Frontier

In 30 short years, we have watched goat cheese morph from a high ick factor to an outright cliche. Goats milk and goat butter have become supermarket staples, no longer relegated to health-food stores. Yet goat meat sits out on the horizon, with trendspotters periodically informing us that its the next big thing.

Beef Advertising Campaign

Building beef demand is the ultimate goal of the beef checkoff — and advertising is one of the key programs funded with checkoff dollars. Tune in to hear more about the checkoffs national advertising campaign and the impact it can have for cattlemen back on the family farm.

Umami Sustainable Seafood: $42M In Sales Of Northern Bluefin Tuna In Recent Quarter

Umami Sustainable Seafood Inc., a fish farming company supplying sashimi-grade Northern Bluefin Tuna to the global market, expects to report approximately $42 million in sales related to approximately 2,200 metric tons of bluefin tuna for the quarter ended March 31, 2011. For the nine months ended March 31, 2011 our sales total $56 million related to approximately 2,800 metric tons of bluefin tuna.

Fishery Products International Names Winners Of FireRoasters Recipe Challenge

Fishery Productions International, a leading broadline seafood provider, today announced the six winners of its 2011 Fire Up Your Menu Recipe Challenge, a competition among the companys broker network to create recipes complementing FPIs new innovative FireRoasters line of flame-seared fillets.