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Editor-in-chief Andy Hanacek gets an exclusive tour of JBS' Grand Island, Neb., plant, focused on its initiatives in wastewater treatment as well as employee and community relations.

A packaging optimization case study from Tyson Foods

Today, most methods of mass cooking and chilling are pretty economical and sufficient for their purpose. However, processors and manufacturers continue to tweak thermal-processing procedures to eliminate remaining challenges.

Murphy-Brown LLC, the livestock production subsidiary for Smithfield Foods, managed more than 450 company-owned farms nationwide without incurring a single environmental notice of violation.

West Liberty Foods attains landfill-free status at two of its facilities (with the third on the way) as the company raises the bar for the industry once again.

Hormel Foods Corp. announced the release of its 2011 Hormel Foods Corporate Responsibility Report, available online at www.hormelfoods.com/csr.

GNP Co. unveiled its third Farm To Fork Report, outlining its newly launched mission of healthy food, families and farms, and key results for 2011.

The company notes that the world population is expected to reach nine billion by 2050.

Four OSI Group companies, including two of its partnerships, were named in McDonald’s Corp.’s 2012 Best of Sustainable Supply report for five different sustainability projects.

American Proteins, Cuthbert, Ga, and Sanderson Farms, Flowood, Miss., were selected as winners of U.S. Poultry & Egg Association’s 2012 Clean Water Awards.