Meat & Poultry

The October hog futures contract picked up almost $6 per hundredweight from Monday to $94.35 at the close Friday on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. The December contract gained almost $3 per hundredweight during the week to $89.35. …

Jersey City became home last week to what was formerly the largest meat purveyor in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District, when DeBragga & Spitler opened a $2.5 million, 25,000-square-foot facility on Amity Street. …

The Wenneman Meat Co. is opening a new 22,000-square-foot building where a fire destroyed the previous one 9 months ago. Meat production began at the new building last week. Wenneman Meat Co. offers bratwurst, sausage, hot dogs, smokies, hams and Angus beef for customers throughout Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri and Arkansas. …

Continued growth in the bison business will be impacted by short-term drought-relief measures, and by long-term federal policies governing farm credit, beginning farmer assistance, meat inspections, endangered species, and other issues. …

U.S. beef packing companies are suffering the largest losses in 2-1/2 years as tight supplies of cattle have them paying near record high prices for them, analysts and traders said on Thursday. …