Northwest food processing takes a giant leap forward beginning mid-July when Mary’s Harvest Fresh Foods opens for business. This 45,000 square foot, state of the art facility will operate a 20,000 square foot vegetable and fruit processing room along with hot and cold kitchens The combined product line will offer approximately 1,350 separate SKUs. …
The New York apple industry has donated $20,000 to American Cancer Society® (ACS) and $5,000 to the Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation, bringing the industry’s total contributions to fight cancer while raising awareness of apples’ cancer-fighting potential to $322,457 since 2000. …
As National Hot Dog Month approaches in July and Americans prepare to chow down on an estimated 150 million wieners on Independence Day alone, a new survey sponsored by Applegate, the leading producer of organic and natural meats, finds that while many Americans differ in preferences for what’s on their hot dogs, 77 percent of Americans are concerned about what’s in their hot dogs. …
The value of bison meat sold in grocery stores, restaurants and farmers markets nationally topped $278 million in 2011, according to an economic analysis released last month by the National Bison Association. Sales jumped 15.8 percent compared to 2010. …
Black-hided. It’s the initial requirement for more than 80 beef brands certified by USDA. Total federally inspected fed-cattle harvest is the first number CAB packing director Clint Walenciak looks at. “The matrix of what drives total CAB pounds starts with that, and then it would be the percent that’s black-hided,” he says. “Then we apply our 10 carcass specifications to narrow that down even further, so that we’re running right at 24% today.” That number has trended upward since 2004 (see chart) to level off and settle back to 62.9% last year, an obvious majority. Yet many are surprised the percentage isn’t higher.
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