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Margaritas Mexican Restaurant chain stays competitive despite various industry complications.

Meat processing businesses can expect the challenging labor market to continue, along with increased federal regulatory oversight regarding employees.

PANAMA CITY, Fla. — The Southeastern Meat Association marked the return of its annual convention June 2-5.

High River, Alberta, plant provides 40% of Canada’s beef supply.

Maximizing yield in the processing of meat and poultry is crucial for boosting operator revenues. While such factors as the amount of external carcass fat, carcass muscularity and aging all affect yield, mastering superior cutting equipment and techniques is crucial for getting the most product from an animal, analysts say.

Employment at U.S. meat, beef and poultry processing plants currently stands around 500,000 and is expected to grow 0.4 percent by the end of 2021, according to Meat, Beef and Poultry Processing Industry in the U.S.,” a September 2020 market research report from IBISWorld. 

A historically tight labor market and pandemic combined to test the meat industry’s workforce this spring. The result? A reckoning with long-ingrained challenges.

In this video interview, former Butterball COO Joe Nalley discusses the issue of labor shortages and how automation helps that problem.