Meat & Poultry

Once found only in restaurants, Kowalski's is excited to bring a new choice in gourmet pork to our customers with our 100% Berkshire pork. With refined breeding and natural production methods, Berkshire (also known as Kurobuta) is to pork what Wagyu is to beef: meat with a higher standard for flavor, enjoyed as a true delicacy. It has been consistently prized by chefs who rave about its rare, characteristic marbling, which produces superb moisture; richer, deeper color; and unsurpassed tenderness and flavor. …

Broulim’s Fresh Foods, Redner’s Warehouse Markets, Harris Teeter and Tops Friendly Markets were named National Retail Beef Backer Award winners today at the 2013 Cattle Industry Annual Convention in Tampa, Fla. Funded by the Beef Checkoff Program, this awards program recognizes grocery establishments for impressive initiatives to market and merchandise beef in the meat case. …

Oklahoma State University’s Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center is currently collaborating with Ross Industries, Inc., headquartered in Midland, Va., to research the use of antimicrobial spray treatments on blade tenderized meat. …

The 2012 edition of the American Meat Institute’s (AMI) Meat & Poultry Facts, the industry's leading statistical book, is now available. …

The American Meat Science Association (AMSA) is excited to announce that registration is open for the AMSA 66th Reciprocal Meat Conference (RMC), to be held June 16-19, 2013, at Auburn University in Auburn, AL. AMSA, the foremost association of meat science professionals, produces the conference. …