Authored by leading animal welfare expert Temple Grandin, Ph.D., the audit guide has revolutionized the way the meat packing industry handles animals and measures animal welfare based upon simple core criteria.
Officials at the union representing workers at a Sanderson Farms chicken processing plant in Hazlehurst, Miss., are calling for the company to improve the unsafe working conditions and the racial insensitivity in the facility.
President Barack Obama, campaigning in Iowa today, will announce $170 million in government meat purchases and urge Congress to pass an agriculture bill that provides aid for farmers struck by drought.
A group of farmers and ranchers has filed a federal lawsuit in Kansas, alleging that the Beef Checkoff program has improperly used funds to lobby politicians on behalf of large agricultural interests
Cargill eported $1.17 billion in earnings from continuing operations in the 2012 fiscal year, a 56 percent decrease from a record $2.69 billion in the prior year.
Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan announced that Ohio will be the first state to participate in USDA's Cooperative Interstate Shipment Program.
Alexis Wholesale Inc., a Gardena, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 6,210 pounds of chorizo sausage because it is misbranded in that it contains monosodium glutamate.
Sean Reid will lead the external selling organization and build sustainable strategic relationships and strategies across all consumer-facing channels.