Through its highly visible “Make the Switch” campaign, the company has energized the turkey category and amplified awareness of the JENNIE-O brand across its product lines.
West Liberty Foods, of West Liberty, Iowa, was named by the SUBWAY brand and its Independent Purchasing Cooperative as the 2012 Vendor of the Year at the company's recent convention in Orlando, Fla.
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.
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