Articles Tagged with ''meat prices''

Ordinarily, reports of strong sales, or even record high sales, would be a cause for celebration.

My first real job (“real” defined as a job that had a future, unlike my fast food, car washing business and door to door sales jobs I had tried as a USC student in L.A.) out of college was for a meat processor in Denver.

Chicken quesadillas, calamari or sliders are on almost any family restaurant’s appetizer menu.

The turkey market downturn that began in 2012 continued into this year.

For the fresh pork category, 2013 has been a strong year. With competing proteins increasing in price, retailers have been successful in aggressively featuring pork as a value product.

Top sirloin steaks are one of the most popular beef steaks served in restaurants (Harris et al., 1992), as well as purchased at retail outlets (National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, 2005), across the United States.

Exports of U.S. beef and pork continued on a record-setting pace in March, with beef posting a 65 percent gain in value versus year-ago levels and pork showing an impressive 40 percent increase, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

Retail meat prices rose 9.2 percent last month on a seasonally-adjusted basis when compared to February 2010, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistic’s (BLS) monthly Consumer Price Index.