Meyer Natural Foods, Loveland, Colo., launched a Humanely Handled program, designed to further strengthen Meyer’s strict standards for raising and producing cattle and establish a program that farmers and ranchers can use to produce the highest-quality beef in the most humane manner.
From the smallest restaurant, supermarket or butcher shop to the largest industrial meat processor, Hollymatic, Countryside, Ill., offers six different formers, complete with varying capacities from 1,200 to 7,800 patties per hour to form and portion beef, poultry, fish, vegetables and more.
Working as a committee within the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB), a Colorado Springs, Colo.-based group of representatives from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, the European Union and the United States began work that will lead to GRSB's definition framework for sustainable beef.
Caviness Beef Packers, Hereford, Texas, announced plans to grow its beef business through the acquisition of San Angelo Packing Co., San Angelo, Texas.
The Nature Conservancy (TNC), Arlington, Va., Walmart Brazil, Brazil’s Marfrig Group and ranchers joined forces to spread social and environmental best practices in cattle production activities in the Brazilian Amazon Region.
To meet retail customer and consumer demand, Cargill, Inc., Wichita, Kan., is investing $2.3 million to install ground beef production and packaging equipment at its Wyalusing, Pa., beef processing facility.
Don Lee Farms acquired a 140,000-square-foot production and distribution facility in Mansfield, Texas, that will serve as an additional food production facility with a cold storage and distribution center.