Meat & Poultry

Allen Family Foods, Inc., has announced it is expanding the Harbeson processing facility in Delaware. The company expects production to grow from 1 million to 1.2 million chickens per week by September 2010. …

U.S. meat prices may rise to records this summer after farmers reduced hog and cattle herds to the smallest sizes in decades, the result of surging feed costs linked to demands for more ethanol. …

AMI and the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council has released a new educational video outlining the proper method to prepare hot dogs for toddlers and small children. The video is the second installment of AMI’s new “Ask the Meat Scientist” series. …

With this most recent project being the last phase of a four-year expansion for Goldn Plump, Bill Petz, the director of Arcadia, WI Operations for the poultry company, made the aldermen aware that the two structural additions to the facility will greatly increase productivity. …

Helen Weise, seedstock producer from Manning, Iowa, and chair of the checkoffs Retail Committee, says the summer months bring promising opportunities for beef producers in the grocery market meat case. …