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New Consumer-Focused COOL Brochure
AMI this week released a new, consumer-oriented brochure to explain new country-of-origin information on meat packages and in retail meat cases. ...
Cargill's Earning Power
Cargill Group saw earnings increase to $1.49 billion for the first quarter of 2009, from $917 million for the same period last year....
Consumers Increase Demand for Supermarket Prepared Meals
According to a new report from foodservice consultants Technomic, three out of five consumers (62 percent) who report purchasing more supermarket prepared meals than a year ago, are doing so at the expense of fast-food restaurants. ...
Anti-Processed Meat Campaign in Schools
A petition to ban processed meats from the school lunch program is as extreme as the pro-vegan, animal rights group behind it...
Consumers Expectations Nearly Met
Consumers expect their food to be safe and they expect it to be produced to exacting standards ...
Current Meat Retail Trends
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently released the monthly retail price data for beef, pork and poultry that showed prices were record high this past August. ...
Diacetate Approved Preservative for Ready-to-Eat Products in Canada
Health Canada has announced it will recommend the Canadian food and drug regulations be amended to permit the use of sodium diacetate and sodium acetate as preservatives ...
Ready or Not, Here Comes COOL
I was reading the big headlines of the day, and an article in the Chicago Tribune titled, “New Law Requires Labels on Meat” immediately caught my eye....
From Our Columnists
Top 5 moves for getting out of the hay-feeding rut
Whether you're out feeding in the cold or just looking out your window at cows eating hay at a cost of $2/cow/day, it should be a wake-up call for all of us...
Buy/sell margins - part III
The feeder-cattle futures market is being whipsawed by corn futures prices. Corn futures prices were in the mid-to-high $3 range early in 2007...
Planning for successful breeding
What tasks need to be done to help assure a successful breeding season this year? Let’s start with the bulls. Nationally, about 10% of all bulls fail...
