Since many structural changes began in the poultry industry, it is common for changes in the beef and pork industries to be compared with the poultry industry. Questions are raised as to how likely coordination in the beef and pork industries will resemble poultry. This fact sheet provides a perspective...
Since 1989, there have been several court challenges to the beef and pork checkoff. This extension fact sheets briefly summarizes recent litigation. Then the beef and pork research and promotion programs are compared with a mushroom market research and promotion program that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional in 2001....
A number of small to midsize farmers in Iowa and across the United States have been raising beef and dairy cows on a pasture-based system. They supplement hay or grass silage on a seasonal basis so that the animals have a readily available source of feed in the winter months...
The 2004 beef export forecast is reduced by more than 90 percent (2.4 billion pounds), as it is currently assumed that Canada will remain the only major importing country accepting beef from the United States. However, Canada has placed a restriction requiring that the imported beef be boneless and from...
A week after David Cameron criticised supermarkets for passing off foreign fare as British products, farmers are going to court to force shops to display British and imported beef separately. The National Beef Association claims so-called co-mingli A week after David Cameron criticised supermarkets...
USDA Secretary Ann Veneman on April 5 withdrew a proposal that would have ended a school lunch testing program for salmonella poisoning in ground beef. The announcement closely followed media reports of a proposed change that would have eliminated a standard the Clinton administration established in June 2000. That zero-tolerance...
Retailers could help the beef industry by raising the amount of cow beef in mince, according to the National Beef Association. Chairman Duff Burrell urged them to include 10% beef from older cows to raise demand for the cattle and stabilise cattle Retailers...
USDA announces the results of the Beef Checkoff Survey, which was conducted by the Gallup Organization among 8,002 beef, dairy, and veal producers nationwide. Seventy-two percent of those surveyed either strongly approved or somewhat approved USDA announces the...
Low profitability in the beef industry, coupled with changes in consumer tastes and preferences, have led some producers to look at niche markets. Increased demand for natural and organic foods, product innovation, competition, recent changes in USDA quality certification programs, and the beef hormone dispute are all positive drivers of...
The TYSON FOODS FOOD SERVICE GROUP announces that the firm's beef and pork products will be marketed under the Tyson brand and introduced by the new "Tastes Like Tyson" marketing campaign for foodservice. The company can provide meat mana The TYSON FOODS FOOD SERVICE...
Hicks, Muse, Tate & Furst Incorporated and Booth Creek Management Corporation announced that they have completed their previously announced $1.4 billion acquisition of the fresh beef and pork processing business of ConAgra Foods, Inc. The acquired operations, which have been named Swift & Company, include the third-largest processor of both...
Irish food chiefs reacted angrily this week to calls by the National Beef Association for retailers to stop selling Irish beef because assurance standards in Ireland "fall substantially short of domestic assurance standards". The NBA cla Irish food chiefs reacted angrily this week...
U.S. officials said Aug. 25 that some permits to allow truckloads of Canadian beef across the U.S. border would be issued that week, reported The Globe and Mail (Aug. 25). The boneless beef cuts, which are considered at low risk for mad cow disease, U.S....
Germany has lifted its ban on British beef after a vote by politicians, leaving France as the only EU member state still refusing to accept beef. Tesco has awarded Taylor Woodrow a 37m [pounds sterling] contract to build a frozen food and distribu ...
Organic farmers' leaders have claimed that some mul-tiple retailers are shunning UK-produced organic beef and pork in favour of cheaper imports. The Soil Association said a recent survey showed that only a fifth of fresh organic pork in Asda and M Organic farmers'...
IN A POTENTIALLY trendsetting move, the country's largest purchaser of beef and a major user of chicken, beef and pork is asking suppliers to stop using a number of antibiotics as growth promoters. McDonald's Corp., which buys over 2.5 billion poun IN A POTENTIALLY...
Beef prices have eased a bit compared with last year's at this time. Some of the drop is due to seasonal demand levels, but part is probably due to the U.S. Department of Agriculture report indicating that there are more cattle on feed today than there have been for the...
Fallout from "precipitous" rule stings agency. After being able to buy only about half the beef it needs to supply the school lunch program and related initiatives--and paying significantly higher prices for what it did purchase--the Fallout from "precipitous"...
Five of Bestfoods Food Solutions Organic products have recently received the Soil Association's seal of approval - Beef flavoured Bouillon, Chicken flavoured Bouillon, Beef flavoured Gravy, Chicken flavoured ... Five of Bestfoods Food Solutions Organic products have recently received the Soil Association's seal of approval...
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