In this video interview, former Butterball COO Joe Nalley discusses how companies have used vertical integration to become more efficient and what drives efforts toward efficiency.

Average U.S. pork production during the 12 months through February was up 1.9 percent compared with the year-ago level (most recent data).

In this video interview, former Butterball COO Joe Nalley discusses how the size of the animal coming into market has increased, how equipment had to change to accommodate that, and how they handled consumer concerns about bigger animals.