Volpi Foods is celebrating its 120th anniversary in 2022. This specialty meat processor is a longtime staple of the Hill neighborhood in St. Louis, but it has grown immensely in the last few decades.

Plant-based protein producer Impossible Foods has hired Leslie Sims as chief marketing and creative officer, effective Jan. 1, 2023.

Not since 2015 has an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) impacted the commercial poultry industry to such a degree that turkey prices have soared to all-time highs and egg prices have broken record highs three times with a potential to achieve a fourth record before yearend.

Poultry processor Wayne-Sanderson Farms confirmed that its Moultrie, Ga., processing facility would not operate its second or third shift on Nov. 10 due to inclement weather in the area stemming from Tropical Storm Nicole.

Tyson Foods Inc.’s motion to dismiss an antitrust suit against the company for allegedly driving a poultry rendering company out of the market was dismissed by a Georgia federal court judge on Nov. 8.

A further deceleration in plant-based meat alternative sales has impacted Beyond Meat, Inc., leading to a greater loss than during the same period for the previous year.

Goffle Road Poultry Farm, based in Wyckoff, NJ, received $4.2 million from the US Department of Agriculture as part of the more than $223 million grants and loans distributed nationwide to smaller, independent processors.

Acting on a directive from the Biden-Harris administration, the US Department of Agriculture is offering more than $223 million in grants and loans toward growing competition and expanding meat and poultry processing capacity in the United States.

Tanmiah Food Co. and Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., have partnered to invest in expanding the poultry capacity of Supreme Foods Processing Co. (SFPC), a subsidiary of Tanmiah, to facilitate the company to increase its capacity of chicken production by 100,000 tonnes per year and its daily processing capacity to over 1 million birds as part of a deal that was signed in July 2022.

Noting that a resolution to the cyberattack that occurred Nov. 6 will take time and result in some service disruptions, executives with Maple Leaf Foods, Inc. said Nov. 8 they are finding “manual workarounds” to keep operations going.