Customers across the country can now enjoy Walmart's premium selection and wide assortment of top quality USDA Choice steak, including T-bone, NY Strip, Filet, Ribeye, and Top Sirloin.
AdvancePierre Foods has told its employees that its Orange City, Iowa, plant will close by the end of the year. The closing will eliminate an estimated 300 jobs, reports the Associated Press.
A delegation from South Korea will conduct a week-long review this week of U.S. safeguards against mad cow disease. The nine-member group will meet with USDA chief veterinarian John Clifford, visit USDA laboratories in Iowa and visit farms, ranches and rendering plants in California, reports Reuters.
For domestic chicken processors who used to have trouble finding a market for dark meat, the change is helping to boost prices and push the industry out of a long slump.
Thailand, which bought less than 0.1 percent of total U.S. beef exports in 2011, may suspend imports from the U.S. after the first case of mad cow in six years.