Meat & Poultry

Australian organic producers are being offered up to 600c/kg for lamb, thanks to a niche order from the US. Major meat processor T and R Pastoral is offering the contracts for organic lambs to be delivered early next year, at levels it says are at least 100c/kg above lamb rates. …

The Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA) is expected to publish in the Federal Register today the long-awaited final rule implementing several components of 2008 Farm Bill related to livestock and poultry marketing and procurement. …

Meeting 25 years and a few days after the first National Pork Board convened, members of the National Pork Board will gather Nov. 15-16 in Des Moines to celebrate the board's silver anniversary and to continue the work begun with the launch of the Pork Checkoff in November 1986. …

The American Meat Institute (AMI), in conjunction with the American Meat Science Association (AMSA), today launched the fourth installment of seven new myth-crushing videos which aims to set the record straight about myths associated with the environmental impact of meat production. …

A wider price gap between Select grade boxed beef and Choice or better—the Choice/Select spread—always comes back to supply and demand. Consumers vote with their dollars, and recent shifts in merchandising put much more high-quality beef on the ballot, just as those supplies began to fall off. …