Independent Processor editor Sam Gazdziak spoke with Kent Harrison, VP of Marketing and Premium Programs at Tyson Fresh Meats, at the American Meats Conference about the company’s brand new product line, Chairman’s Reserve Prime Pork.

Burgers’ Smokehouse has undergone many expansions, additions and upgrades, but the important aspects of its business haven’t changed. The company still uses its traditional curing methods; it’s just applying its traditions to a wider range of products, and at a larger scale than ever before.

It took 55 years for Harper’s Country Hams of Clinton, Ky. to become one of the nation’s leading producers of cured ham. Yet in only a few hours, a massive fire turned the 100,000-square-foot plant into pile of twisted steel and smoldering rubble.