Meat & Poultry

International Tray Pads & Packaging, Inc. announces a new absorbent technology using a proprietary laminated structure that significantly reduces material weight and content. The result is a lighter, thinner pad with highly desirable characteristics that significantly reduces the CO2 footprint and the amount of material ultimately discarded in landfills. Yet International Tray Pads will retain and hold moisture under pressure unlike traditional fluff pulp/all paper pads. …

The National Pork Checkoff Board is accepting nominations to fill five, three-year terms as directors of the board. In addition, candidates are being sought for two open seats on the Board's Nominating Committee to serve two-year terms starting in 2012. Nominees may be submitted by state pork producer associations, farm organizations and anyone who pays the Pork Checkoff. …

SaveFarmFamilies.org has added Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. (DPI), the Worcester County Farm Bureau and the Wicomico County Farm Bureau, all powerful voices for the agriculture community, to its effort to raise funds for the legal defense of the Hudson family farm. The Hudsons are involved in ongoing litigation originated by the Waterkeeper Alliance, a New York-based activist organization that seeks to use the courts to push their radical agenda. …

Although 5 percent more cattle were on U.S. feedlots during August compared with a year ago, analysts say that when the current bump in supplies is slaughtered and consumed, the U.S. may face a decline in beef supplies of as much as 4 percent next year. …

The Cattlemen’s Beef Board will invest about $39.8 million, from a total budget of about $42.1 million, into programs of beef promotion, research, consumer information, industry information, foreign marketing and producer communications in Fiscal Year 2012, if the recommendation of the Beef Promotion Operating Committee is approved by USDA, following review by the full Beef Board. …