Meat & Poultry

The results are in and Tennessee cattle producers have voted to increase the assessment they pay to support in-state promotions of beef, announced state Agriculture Commissioner Julius Johnson. …

Junior Achievement of the Eastern Shore in Maryland is committed to educating and inspiring young people to value free enterprise, business and economics to improve the quality of their lives. One way Junior Achievement (JA) does this is through its Our Region® program for fourth-graders in the public schools in Wicomico, Worcester and Somerset counties by focusing on regional agricultural businesses and helping students understand how they produce goods and services for consumers. …

Rick VanderWey is among three ranching families on the ownership end of a new beef business supplied by 94 ranching operations on both sides of the Nebraska-South Dakota border. Sandhill Ranchers Beef has re-opened a meatpacking plant at Mullen — closed since 2002 — to crank out the finished product. …

Moo & Oink, the shuttered retail meat company, will live on in name only as a minority owned company acquired the former store’s brand and other intellectual property for $530,000 during a public sale of the 30-year-old company last week. …

Leucadia National Corporation announced that it has completed the acquisition of a controlling interest in National Beef Packing Company, LLC (“National Beef”), one of the largest beef processing companies in the Unites States. National Beef processes, packages and delivers fresh and frozen beef and beef by-products for sale to customers in the U.S. and international markets. The transaction was previously announced on December 5, 2011. …