DG Foods Ltd., based in Hazlehurst, Miss., has announced plans to open a plant in Bastrop, La., which will create 317 jobs. The company will spend $9.7 million for the
Cargill has invested $8 million at its Fresno, Calif., beef production facility for recently completed projects to expand its already extensive food safety efforts, and to renovate and expand some
A proposed center at Iowa State University would be the first in the nation to give veterinarians hands-on training on how to keep hogs healthy in the pork production chain,
The free trade agreement agreed upon by the United States and South Korea did not include any changes to the Korean restrictions on U.S. beef imports, which only permit beef
President Barack Obama said the trade accord signed with South Korea late last week is a “win-win” for both countries that shows the alliance between them is “stronger than ever,”
N.Y. Gourmet Salads, Inc., a Brooklyn, N.Y., establishment, is recalling an undetermined amount of various meat and poultry products that were produced without the benefit of federal inspection, the U.S.
The Perdue Farms Inc. plant in Accomac, Va., and the Tyson Foods plant in Temperanceville, Va., are calling for more chicken houses to be built in Accomack County to meet
The U.S. Senate yesterday passed S. 510, the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, by a vote of 73-25. The House late last year passed its version of the food safety
The Humane Society of the United States has filed a class action lawsuit in New Jersey against Perdue Farms, accusing the nation's third-largest poultry producer of falsely advertising its chickens
Russia ended a ban on pork imports from a Tyson Foods Inc. plant in Iowa, the U.S. Department of Agriculture said. The Tyson Fresh Meats Inc. plant in Columbus Junction,