The Start Of The Breakfast Alphabet: “A” Is For “Applewood”
Looking for bacon with a distinct, delicious flavor? Look no further than Farmland Applewood Smoked Bacon. …
Meat & Poultry
Walmart And Sam’s Club Require Enhanced Beef Safety Measures
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced today that it will implement additional beef safety measures designed to further protect customers against foodborne illnesses. The new process controls standards and goals are additions to a food safety program that already requires ground beef suppliers to test for E.coli O 157:H7 and achieve prevention-based certification against one of the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI) internationally recognized standards. …
Brief-National Pork Board: Cochise Pork Producer Provides Input On Checkoff Programs
Betsy Beck a pork producer from Cochise, Ariz., served as a delegate at the Pork Act Delegate assembly March 4-6 in Kansas City, Mo. Beck was named a delegate by Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. The delegates are charged with helping to provide direction to the pork promotion, research and consumer information programs that are funded by the Pork Checkoff through the National Pork Board. …
Sanderson Farms Soars To All Time High
Sanderson Farms stock has fully recovered from the bear market and has broken through to a lifetime high, powered by continued monthly price gains. Is there anything left on the upside for this stock? …
Will The USDA Doom Locally Produced Meat?
That wailing you hear in the distance is the sound of small meat processors begging the USDA for mercy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service recently proposed a set of new regulations that will require all meat processors to submit their products to a new series of tests, a procedure that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for even a modestly scaled operation, enough to cripple many small processors. …