The agency said it would fund more than $12 million to expand independent processing capacity in Ohio, Michigan and Minnesota using an expansion program grant.
On Jan. 5, US Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced an investment of $9.6 million from the Biden-Harris administration to help strengthen the nation’s meat supply.
A study published in the December issue of the journal Nature Sustainability examined what types of food production have the greatest environmental impacts.
Joanne Knight has been named acting chief financial officer of Cargill. She will fill the role of Jamie Miller, who will step down on Jan. 13 to take an opportunity outside of Cargill, the company said.
Fire department personnel and rescue workers were called to Smithfield Foods’ pork processing plant in Tar Heel at approximately 1 a.m. on Jan. 6, responding to reports of an ammonia leak.
After decades of being in the business of providing seafood to Denver and the Rocky Mountains, Seattle Fish Co. recently took on a new project to broaden its meat portfolio.
The Meat Science and Animal Biologics Discovery (MSABD) program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Sciences will host a Meat Snacks Short Course from Feb. 7-9.