Meat & Poultry

Beginning Nov. 1 through Dec. 31, 2012, a veal retail promotion has been formed in partnership with the beef checkoff and Casillero del Diablo Brand Spanish Wines, the largest marketer of Spanish wines in America, the California Milk Marketing Board and Classico Sauces. …

An affiliate of Blue Ash-based Empire Marketing Strategies Inc. has acquired 21 acres in Mason for about $820,000, the Cincinnati Business Courier reports. Mason Processing LLC plans to construct a meat-processing plant that could create 200 jobs. …

In a move designed to help take the pressure off British farmers following rising feed prices, the retailer will create two new groups, run by committees of farmers, which will guarantee beef farmers an above market price for their meat and a price linked to the cost of feed for pork farmers. …

The co-owners of a new chicken processing plant in northwest New Brunswick say the plant’s pending opening is already bringing an end to the long-standing so-called chicken war in the area. The Sunnymel plant in Clair, near Edmundston, is co-owned by Groupe Westco, a group of chicken farmers in Madawaska County, and by Olymel, a Quebec processing company. …

Maple Leaf Foods announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Puratone Corporation, a leading Manitoba hog production company, for approximately $42 million including livestock, facilities and interests in some joint ventures. The transaction is expected to close within a month, subject to court and regulatory approvals. …