Meat & Poultry

New Meatco Provisions, LLC (“Meatco” or the “Company”) closed on the sale of certain of its assets to Harvest Meat Company, Inc. (“Harvest”). After conducting a process designed to maximize the value of its assets and recoveries for creditors, Meatco decided to sell its inventory to Harvest for the highest available price and at fair value. Harvest also purchased Meatco’s remaining accounts receivable and will collect the accounts for a reasonable fee. …

Premium Meats & Cheeses brand Dietz & Watson is proud to announce a new line of seven mouthwatering All Natural Chicken Sausage varieties that offer something to please just about every palate. Made from fresh, never frozen chicken and using old-world family recipes prepared in small batches, these fully cooked sausages contain no fillers, extenders or MSG and are certified Gluten Free by the Celiac Sprue Association. They are all 100% Pork Free. …

U.S. beef prices jumped to a 10-year high on Wednesday as the arrival of warm, dry weather over much of the country will have backyard chefs firing up grills and throwing on steaks and hamburgers, analysts said. …

In 2008, our groundbreaking Power of Brands study revealed that branding does matter in the meat case. Five years later, following the longest downturn in the U.S. economy since the Great Depression, we wanted to know if branding still matters in the meat case.

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“Rigorous food safety standards are applied to all chicken produced in the United States, and all chicken products must meet or exceed these safety standards set forth by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) in order to reach consumers,” said Ashley Peterson, Ph.D., vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs at the National Chicken Council. …