Year: 2019

Consumer Demand for High-Quality Beef is Strong and Growing

January 14, 2019 Beef Checkoff Program

Strong consumer beef demand is expected to continue into 2019, with the USDA predicting consumers in the United States will eat 8.9 percent more beef this year than in 2015.ii Much of beef’s demand is driven by ground beef and loin cuts, which are particularly popular with consumers at the grocery store. …

Industry Wary of Alternatives Tries to Protect a Word: Meat

January 14, 2019 Grant Schulte, Associated Press

Nebraska lawmakers will consider a bill this year defining meat as “any edible portion of any livestock or poultry, carcass, or part thereof” and excluding “lab-grown or insect or plant-based food products.” It would make it a crime to advertise or sell something “as meat that is not derived from poultry or livestock.” …

Three Students Named beneficiaries of Spring Meadow – Proven Winners HRI scholarships

January 14, 2019 Spring Meadow Nursery

Spring Meadow Nursery and the Horticultural Research Institute (HRI) are pleased to announce the recipients of 2018-2019 Spring Meadow – Proven Winners® Endowment Fund scholarships. …

Slow Flowers Provide New Industry, Opportunity

January 14, 2019 Hugh G. Earnhart, Ohio State University

Eighty percent of the cut flowers that make up the bouquets of American florists arrive daily from another country. These blooms come from the Middle East, South America and Asia. …

Kroger Will Now be Accepting Florverde Certification for its Floral Suppliers

January 14, 2019 Florverde

Kroger will now be accepting Florverde Sustainable Flowers certification in lieu of the Kroger Social Compliance Audit for its floral suppliers. The news was shared by Sofia B. Castillo, Social Compliance Manager of Kroger. …