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Retail
Decline in Grocery Food Prices Stretches to Farmers' Profits
Prices in the grocery store are down by 10 percent from last year, the Iowa Farm Bureau reports. ...
A Look At The Domestic Retail Landscape
During the September Operating Committee meeting held in Denver, Colo., 10 Cattlemen’s Beef Board members and 10 State Beef Council members that sit on the committee chose to increase retail marketing program funding by $100,000 in the area of national beef promotions and partnerships. ...
Food System Steps Have Costs
BEEF producers and consumers often wonder about menu prices for beef entrees like New York strips and other steaks because the price seems to be a hefty premium to what producers are paid for their cattle and even to what packers are paid for their beef....
Challenge of Continuously Improving Food Safety
The meat and poultry industry has been working successfully to meet the challenge of continuously improving the safety of meat and poultry products, said AMI President and CEO J. Patrick Boyle, who testified before the House Committee on Agriculture....
Hamburger Society
I don't set trends. I just find out what they are and exploit them. That's the strategy Dick Clark says made him a very rich, pop-culture icon from the...
Consumer Confidence in Food Manufacturers Plunges
New research from the United States suggests that consumer confidence in food companies has plummeted after less than one in five said they trusted firms to develop and sell healthy products. ...
Illinois Firm Recalls Ground Beef Products
International Meat Co., Inc., a Chicago, Ill., establishment is recalling approximately 6,152 pounds of ground beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7...
Canada Issues Recommendations to Enhance Food Safety Following 2008 Listeria Outbreak
A comprehensive analysis by the Canadian Parliament’s Food Safety Subcommittee following last summer’s listeriosis outbreak contains more than a dozen areas for improvement, including the implementation of food safety programs such as Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP), traceability, a collaborative effort with the U.S. to develop a common approach to food safety standards...
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From Our Columnists
Advocate or Perish
"While the affluent nations can certainly afford to adopt ultra low-risk positions toward new advances in agricultural science and technology, and pay...
Don't Market Like 2008
Many ranchers' first inclination in marketing their 2009 calves is to base it on their 2008 calf crop experiences. That could be a serious mistake...
No Silver Bullet
I was so impressed with Richard Roth's letter to the editor that I thought it deserved some follow-up...
