Meat & Poultry

To meet retail customer and consumer demand, Cargill is investing $2.3 million to install ground beef production and packaging equipment at its Wyalusing, Pa., beef processing facility.  The equipment will add significant ground beef production capacity at the plant, while also increasing employment by 15-20 fulltime jobs. …

Tyson Foods, Inc. is teaming up with the Alliance for a Healthier Generation in the fight against childhood obesity. …

Farmland Foods and Boulevard Brewing Company announced two new products, Boulevard Pale Ale and Unfiltered Wheat Beer Brats from Farmland, bringing together two long time Kansas City companies to help kick off the summer grilling season. …

Bettcher Industries, Inc. is pleased to announce that Zach Van Horn has joined the company as Regional Manager. In this position, Van Horn will be responsible for sales and service activities for Bettcher’s Whizard® Trimmer and AirShirz® scissors product lines, supporting Bettcher’s meat processing customers in Eastern and Central Iowa plus Illinois. …

The beef industry’s Wholesale Price Chart gives a top-line view of average reported wholesale prices on beef sub-primal cuts from the current and previous weeks, and is prepared using data from USDA Market News and the VMMeat® System by Meat Solutions, the industry leader in beef sales data, cost-reporting, and statistics. …