Meat & Poultry

Here in the Southland, the key ingredients to a crowd-pleasing cookout are no secret: fresh local products from Farmer John and bold global flavors from just about every culture in the world. So it’s with this sense of local pride that Farmer John introduces a new site that celebrates the diverse flavors found right here in L.A.’s own metropolitan backyard. …

To demonstrate the effectiveness of Hispanic Point-of-Sale (POS) elements, Dillons stores conducted a beef checkoff-funded Hispanic Pilot Test. …

Broiler meat production is expected to total 9.13 billion pounds in second-quarter 2010, up 2 percent from a year earlier. …

Sysco Corporation today announced that it has acquired Lincoln Poultry & Egg Co., a leading broadline foodservice distributor based in Lincoln, Nebraska. The acquisition is effective as of July 12, 2010. The management team and employees of Lincoln Poultry will become employees of Sysco. …

Cattle futures rose to a six-week high on speculation that U.S. meatpackers are paying more for animals as profit improves. Hogs also gained. …