Butter, turkey, fruit, vegetable and red meat stocks on May 31, 2012, were higher than year-earlier levels, but chicken and cheese stocks were lower, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s latest Cold Storage report.
A recent survey commissioned by Applegate Farms, a processor of “natural” and organic meat and cheese products, found that consumers want to know what’s in their hot dogs.
Ready-to-cook poultry weight during May 2012 increased 1 percent compared to May 2011, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Board (NASS).
Taiwanese delegates who traveled to the United States to conduct field inspections of beef facilities concluded that US beef ‘should be safe,’ but stopped short of fully endorsing the safety of US beef, “Focus Taiwan” reported.
The rapid spread of peste des petits ruminants (PPR), a virulent livestock disease of goats and sheep, is wreaking havoc in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).
A former employee of Beef Products International (BPI) will file a civil lawsuit against a national broadcast company following the controversy over lean finely textured beef, or LFTB, according to news reports.
The North American meat-focused division of Sara Lee will attract acquisition bids when the company spins off its Europe-based coffee-and-tea division in the future.
Orlando, Florida-based Darden Restaurants, which is setting up the world's first fully-integrated lobster aquaculture project in the Malaysian state of Sabah, hopes to build a commercial hatchery there in the next two years.
Brazil has formally taken action against South Africa’s use of antidumping policies against Brazilian poultry meat, according to a statement from the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Bakery products are flour-based food baked in an oven such as bread, cakes, pastries and pies. Bakery products are an item of mass consumption in view of its low price and with rapid growth and changing eating habits of people, bakery products have gained
Many US grocery stores now offer at least some meat or poultry that is raised without antibiotics, sometimes even at below-average prices for all meats of that type, but shoppers must become savvy about reading labelling to get products that live up to “n
Coinciding with the new "Meat Without Drugs" campaign announced this week, tech start up Real Time Farms launched a crowd-sourced map to help consumers locate meat from animals raised without antibiotics.
An award-winning speech about the role of nationwide livestock auction markets has been given to the Livestock Marketing Association (LMA) in California, by a 15-year-old boy.
