Consumers, retailers, restaurants and all involved in the supply chain from farm to table face issues not seen in recent decades. However, data, analytics and insights provide a glimpse into how consumers shopped for, and ate, meat and poultry products during that time.

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.

The National Chicken Council (NCC) updated its guidelines for animal care and welfare at the beginning of the new year.

A study published in the December issue of the journal Nature Sustainability examined what types of food production have the greatest environmental impacts.

Poultry processor Butterball LLC recently confirmed that it hired Brett Worlow as its new general counsel.

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.

Impossible Foods announced the hiring of Sherene Jagla as its first chief demand officer.

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.