Meat & Poultry

The expansion of Koch Foods, which was expected to add nearly 390 jobs to Fairfield, OH this year, has been delayed indefinitely. Koch has more than 20 facilities nationwide, supplying chicken to such companies as Kroger, Steak n’ Shake, Sonic, Ruby Tuesday and many others. It does business in six states, including Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Illinois. …

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Steak lovers and hamburger fans will have to pay more for those beefy meals in 2013, as there is a projected 5% reduction in the number of cows likely headed to market this year. …

An Alberta meat-processing plant at the centre of Canada's largest beef recall was ordered to address serious problems six times in the months leading up to an E. coli outbreak last summer, documents obtained by CBC News show. …

Fast-food chains typically test items in select markets before taking them national. But for McDonald's, which has 14,000 U.S. locations, adding chicken wings to the permanent lineup could be tricky. Prices for chicken wings have been climbing over the past year, reflecting an increase in the number of restaurants serving them, said David Harvey, an agriculture economist who specializes in poultry and eggs at the U.S. Department of Agriculture. And prices could continue to climb with demand remaining high, pressuring prices for wings across the industry. …