Cargill Pork

DOLLARS & SENSE; Taking mystery out of buying meat; Don't expect any BOGOs if you're switching to locally raised meat, but buyers say the health and taste benefits outweigh higher costs.(VARIETY)
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 10/27/2009; 1570 words; ...purchasing locally raised chicken, pork and beef from animals raised...left paralyzed after eating a Cargill-produced hamburger patty contaminated...The number of chicken and pork producers increased at a lesser...farmers selling chicken, beef, pork, lamb, turkey or bison. Part...

Brazilian meatpacker Marfrig Alimentos As agreed to acquire Seara Alimentos SA, Cargill Inc.'s Brazilian poultry and pork business, for $706.2 million in cash and $193.8 million in assumed debt.(MERGER RELATED NEWS)(Brief article)
The Food Institute Report; 9/21/2009; 582 words; ...ALIMENTOS AS agreed to acquire SEARA ALIMENTOS SA, CARGILL INC.'s Brazilian poultry and pork business, for $706.2 million in cash and...Seara will add $1.7 billion in annual sales of pork and poultry processing to Marfrig's beef operations...

Moody's says Marfrig rating, outlook unscathed by Seara buy.
ADP Debt News; 9/17/2009; 816 words; ...automatic impact on its B1 rating and "negative" outlook. Seara, a subsidiary of US conglomerate Cargill Inc, specialises primarily in pork and poultry meat exports and processed food products, the agency noted. The transaction will include...

Fitch Affirms Marfrig's IDR at 'B+'; Outlook Stable.
Business Wire; 9/16/2009; 863 words; ...Alimentos Ltda (Seara). Marfrig will pay Cargill, the shareholder of Seara, USD706.2...competitive position in the poultry and pork industries in Brazil as a result of this...second largest exporter of both poultry and pork products with export market share of 16...

Renewable-fuels fight not necessarily right
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque); 9/6/2009; 728 words; ...in renewable fuels. What the Pork Producers group probably wasn...president of the National Pork Producers Council's, recently...and others) stating that 'pork producers since October 2007...voice on Smithfield, Excel (Cargill), and Tyson? You sir, choose...