Meat & Poultry

The U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts higher livestock prices this year, saying cattle ready for slaughter will be 20 percent higher this year than in 2010 and live hogs for slaughter will be up 18 percent from a year ago. …

Arrowsight, Inc., today was named the American Meat Institutes (AMI) 2011 Supplier of the Year. The award was presented during the AMI Meat, Poultry & Seafood Convention and Exposition in Chicago, Ill. …

The management team that previously ran Walla Walla’s shuttered pasture-raised meat operation Thundering Hooves has started its own sustainable meats company and will sell off the remaining Thundering Hooves inventory as its first order of business. …

Costs for corn have doubled in a matter of months, surging to — and briefly beyond — three-year highs in recent trading. That has pinched poultry producers like Perdue Farms, Mountaire Farms and Allen Family Foods, which add billions to Delaware’s economy and employ thousands here, but remain heavily susceptible to price spikes in corn, a prime chicken feed. …

Beef value cuts have been developed from underutilized muscles found in the chuck and round. Traditionally these cuts were made into ground beef or roasts. Over the past decade, the Beef Checkoff has funded research to establish alternative options for beef muscles. …