Still wary from supply chain disruptions and economic uncertainty, consumers increasingly embrace new products and sales channels.

The industry needs to adopt a commonsense approach to controlling it before FSIS feels compelled to enact new regulations.

Consumers approach the purchase of meat, poultry, or seafood products with many concerns – freshness, shelf life, inflation-impacted prices, food waste, plastic waste, consumption of non-renewable resources, recyclability, product traceability, and the need for convenient meal prep in their often-hectic days. 

Regulators must ensure plant-based ‘chicken’ products don’t confuse consumers. 

Global politics add further complications to cost-effectively delivering products to customers. 

With a new name to reflect its growth as a food marketer, the company remains true to its ham-curing roots as it expands into new products and market regions.

Most Top 100 survey respondents expect 2022 to surpass 2021 for company growth. 

Although sales growth has cooled, price, consumer brand loyalty and flavor innovations continue to position breakfast and dinner sausage as go-to favorites in an inflationary market.

Not only has John Soules Foods experienced high-flying success with record sales and new-product development over the past 18 months, but it also built a highly automated, state-of-the-art processing plant in Valley, Ala., to push the company even higher.

When discussing the past couple of years in the meat industry, Cloverdale Foods’ fourth-generation CEO Scott Russell describes a waterfall, where you’re constantly getting hit from one stream of water or another.