JBS to close meat plants in manufacturing reshuffle

The company plans to lay off at least 2,000 workers as it shutters a Pennsylvania beef processing facility and makes changes ...
MEAT+POULTRY

Meat snacks growth drives processing capacity expansions

DENVER — Meat snacks represent a major area for production innovation, according to a new report from CoBank’s Knowledge ...
AG Week

Meat processing demand builds education and business opportunities in rural Minnesota

STAPLES, Minn. — Parker Witulski grew up in agriculture in southeast Nebraska and wanted to find a way to stay in agriculture in his career path. When he turned 16, he landed a job at a local meat ...
KWCH

Small, local meat-processing plants feel pressure from big plant closures

Meatpacking plants around the country have closed their doors or limited production because of COVID-19 concerns. The order uses the Defense Production Act to classify meat processing as critical ...
Forbes

How Meat Processing Workers Are Fighting For Safer Working Conditions

A recent bill authored by Sen. Cory Booker (D-N.J.) and Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Cal.) seeks to address the enormous power gap in the meat sector and make processing plants safer for workers. The bill has ...
The Conversation

Where’s the meat? Employers and governments should have seen this supply crisis coming, and done something

Australia Day barbecues are under threat as Omicron infections continue to cripple meat-processing operations. Most off the menu are chicken dishes. Australia’s biggest poultry processor Ingham’s ...
NL Times

Dutch meat sector again promises improvement after new threat to ban foreign workers

The Dutch meat industry has once again promised to improve working conditions in slaughterhouses and meat processing plants, ...
Augusta Free Press

T&E Meats to expand Harrisonburg meat processing facility

T&E Meats will expand its meat processing facility in the City of Harrisonburg. The company will create seven new jobs and invest more than $600,000 as part of its expansion. The Commonwealth of ...
AG Week

Grant will help launch second USDA-inspected meat processing plant in western South Dakota

The federal government is giving a South Dakota meat processing company a $3.3 million grant to help it get started. CNF Enterprises plans to build a 30,000-square-foot processing facility in New ...
MyJoyOnline

Tafo Zongo hopes new abattoir will transform meat processing

For years, many residents of Tafo Zongo and surrounding communities have relied on makeshift slaughter points to prepare ...