Seaboard Foods was awarded the American Meat Institute’s (AMI) Edward C. Jones Community Service Award during the 2011 AMI Meat, Poultry & Seafood Convention and Exposition in Chicago, Ill. In presenting the award, AMI Chairman Dennis Vignieri, president of Kenosha Beef International, called Seaboard’s generosity “wide-ranging.”

The owner of a poultry processing plant that supplies chickens to Sacramento-area restaurants and markets won approval on Thursday to move his operation after the Sacramento SPCA, an early foe of the new site, dropped its opposition. The Sacramento Planning Commission, on a 10-0 vote, approved a special-use permit for the New American Poultry facility, reports the Sacramento Bee.

Hormel Foods Corp. recently awarded 65 suppliers with a 2010 Spirit of Excellence Award for their roles in the company’s continuous improvement process throughout the past year.

The positive trend for U.S. beef and pork exports continued in February, with an increasingly large portion of total U.S. production going to international customers while returning more revenue to America’s red meat industry, according to statistics compiled by the U.S. Meat Export Federation (USMEF).

A fire Wednesday morning destroyed Palumbo's Meat Market, located in West Middlesex, Pa. The building was also the home of the company's owners, Keith and Debra Palumbo.

Leveraging Nolan Ryan’s popularity as a baseball legend and his passion for the beef business, the team at Nolan Ryan’s All-Natural Beef are getting a head start on grilling season by launching Nolan Ryan’s Beef and Baseball Bonanza.

Progress Energy Carolinas has signed a contract with Poultry Power USA to purchase the output of a poultry waste-to-biogas energy plant, to be located in Montgomery County, N.C. Poultry Power USA will build, own and operate the 36-megawatt (MW) power plant and sell the electricity to the utility for use with its customers, reports the Asheville Citizen-Times.

Cargill reported $763 million in earnings from continuing operations in the fiscal 2011 third quarter ended Feb. 28, up 30 percent from $588 million in the same period a year ago.

Butterball LLC celebrated food safety month through a children’s coloring contest and a series of employee challenges at the company’s Mount Olive, N.C. facility.

Just in time for barbeque season, Pat Boone All-American Meats announced the addition of American-Style Kobe Beef Hot Dogs and Gourmet Burgers to its product line up, along with a new collection of Pat's Signature Sampler Packs.