August was a solid month for both U.S. beef and pork exports as both easily outpaced the results of August 2009 and increased their gains over the cumulative totals from

Japan is analyzing the safety of meat from cattle older than 20 months amid U.S. calls to normalize the trade, reports Bloomberg news. Japan had formerly been the largest importer

The Environmental Protection Agency will allow gas stations to sell a gasoline blend with 15 percent ethanol, an increase from the current level of 10 percent. However, the agency is

Smithfield Foods Inc. has named Michael E. Brown president and chief operating officer of Farmland Foods Inc., effective October 4, 2010. Farmland is a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, headquartered in

A quirk in North Carolina law has derailed plans to construct several industrial boilers that would have converted chicken waste into steam for factories and other industrial applications. The North

Shares of top meat producers Tyson Foods Inc., Smithfield Foods Inc. and others tumbled on Friday after the latest crop report showed a drop in corn and soybeans, which could

Bill Rupp has been named president of the beef division of JBS USA, succeeding Richard Vesta. Vesta was named president in March of last year when JBS USA bought the

Bernard Leonard, group vice president/Food Service, Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Arkansas, was installed today as chairman of the National Chicken Council, the trade association for the chicken production and processing

Nearly 1,200 workers at the JBS plant in Souderton, Pennsylvania, have voted to join the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) Local 1776. “I am delighted that we stood together

A worker at a Green Bay meatpacking plant was killed over the weekend when a large steel plate fell on him, the Brown County medical examiner's office said Monday. Gregory