Fishery Starts Chemical Tagging Its Salmon To Stop Rogue Traders

A Scottish fish farm is to be the first in the northern hemisphere to introduce chemical tagging in an attempt to eliminate food fraud.

Cattle Rally On Higher Cash, Beef Prices

January 4, 2018 Karl Plume, Reuters

This week’s cash cattle sales could be $1 to $2 higher, traders said. The choice wholesale beef price on Tuesday rose $2.24 per cwt to $205.14, while the select cutout jumped $3.59 to $197.57 per cwt, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said.

Costco Chicken Plant Progress Continues

January 4, 2018 Sam Farmer, Wahoo Newspaper

Chicken houses for the Costco processing plant near Fremont are closer to being a reality in Saunders County.

Some Of America's Best Sausage Comes From A Tiny Town Down South

January 4, 2018 David Lansdel, Food & Wine

With barely 4,000 inhabitants (and slowly dwindling), Evergreen, Alabama isn't all that much to look at, a classically sleepy, ye olde southern town along the railroad tracks, out in the scrubby hinterlands between the old port city of Mobile and the state capital of Montgomery. So why, exactly, is Evergreen so famous? Sausage, that's why.

National Garden Bureau’s 2018 'New Varieties' Now Available

January 4, 2018 National Garden Bureau

For more than 25 years, National Garden Bureau (NGB) has been showcasing and promoting their member’s new plant varieties in the inspirational program appropriately named “New Plants.” Growers and Garden retailers: Search through 100+ new plants to find what your customers are clamoring for! You might have seen some of them at the 2017 CA Spring Trials or summer trade shows, but certainly not all.