date:Feb 27, 2013
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The Protein Group include a Meat Products Group (prepared meats and fresh pork and poultry) and an Agribusiness Group (hog production, byproduct sales and biofuels), and it was the Meat Products Group that drove the fourth-quarter profits gain. The Meat Products Group accounts for more than 90% of Protein Group sales. Fourth-quarter profits for the meat group rose 73% because of strength in prepared meats and fresh poultry, partly offset by weakness in pork processing.
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