Month: August 2012

August Otto, a 16 year-old from Delano in Wright County, and Eleni Solberg, a 16 year-old from Stewartville in Fillmore County, were given the royal chicken treatment on Sunday, August 26, after winning the third-annual Poultry Prince and Princess Contest: A Scholarship Program of Minnesota 4-H and Gold'n Plump®. The program recognizes the knowledge, leadership and skills of Minnesota's youth in the state's poultry industry by awarding two teenagers with poultry ambassador titles and $1,000 academic scholarships. …

Washingtonians Rebecca Cameron and Sandra Gray were named winners of the Washington Regional Finals of the Third Annual Foster Farms Fresh Chicken Cooking Contest held at Kathy Casey Food Studios. Each winner received a $1,000 cash prize and will compete at the Finals in person on September 28, 2012 at The Culinary Institute of America at Greystone, in California's Napa Valley. …

Commercial red meat production for the United States totaled 3.94 billion pounds in July, up 4 percent from the 3.79 billion pounds produced in July 2011. …