The fifth generation of the Strassburger family has begun to build Strassburger Meats outward from its legacy steakhouse business, launching a new retail line, opening up an e-commerce storefront and expanding into the export business.

The new video details the facts about ground beef processing and speaks to the view held by some consumers that it’s safer to buy ground beef that is ground from a whole roast in store or at home than that which is ground from beef trimmings and packaged in a plant.

Opportunities are emerging to explore different cuts of meat and develop innovative applications that cross-utilize beef and pork across the menu.

Cargill conducted consumer research to find out how it could help them better experience ground beef as an ongoing staple food in their diets.

CargillGroundBeef.com has been launched to provide consumers with information and an ongoing interactive dialogue about the most popular and versatile protein in America.

USDA weekly export sales data showed that Japan bought 10,900 tons in the week ending Feb. 17, the most since 2010.

National Beef Packing Co. has announced that it will lay off 283 workers in its plant in Moultrie, Ga., as well as 150 workers at a facility in Hummel’s Wharf, Pa.

The project will be the largest solar energy system at a meat processing facility in California.

This important work positions the beef industry to lead the conversations about industry sustainability.