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Article: Solid ground: Americans' love affair with ground beef shows no signs of slowing down.(SPECIAL REPORT: GRINDERS)
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- The National Provisioner
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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Hamburgers, tacos, meatballs and spaghetti, just to name a few: As long as America's diet features those products and others like them, it will be good to be a ground-beef processor.
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"We have an extremelys strong and growing beef market overall, and ground beef is the largest share of that market," says Randy Irion, director of retail marketing for the National Cattlemen's Beef Association (NCBA), which contracts to manage retail programs for the Beef Checkoff Program. Irion says that ground beef has pretty consistently represented about one-third of all beef dollar sales, as well as about 45 percent of pounds sold. According to a ...