Sean Connolly, CEO of The Hillshire Brands Company, formerly Sara Lee Corporation, is looking forward to adding more products to the company’s lineup, including meat snack meats, according to a Reuters report.
A new Northern Beef Packers plant being built in Aberdeen has made several attempts to open since 2006, but its long-anticipated opening appears imminent in the near future, reports KSFY ABC.
Russia and India were the most rapidly developing countries in terms of production of poultry meat in 2011, according to estimates from leading Russian analytical agency Agroru.
The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) Best Aquaculture Practices (BAP) program has further expanded its coverage of salmon facilities with the certification of five Marine Harvest Canada salmon farm sites.
Food choices could be significantly reduced as a result of climate change with novel foods and lab-grown meats becoming the norm, scientists have warned.
US and Canadian meat processors have called on ministers to abide by a ruling from the World Trade Organization (WTO) Appellate Body that the US is violating its international trade obligations by enforcing mandatory country-of-origin labelling (COOL) on
The loss of trade privileges for frozen shrimp exported from Thailand to the European Union (EU) will impact farmers and employees of packing houses, perhaps as many as 2 million people across the country, reported The Nation on July 2.
A national emergency plan has been launched by Mexican authorities to contain a bird flu outbreak, which the agriculture ministry claims has already affected nearly 1.7 million birds, according to Zeenews.com.
Although the US pork industry has captured more than 90 percent of the imported pork market in Mexico, accounting for nearly one-third of total pork consumption, per capita pork consumption in Mexico is only 24 lbs. per year vs. approximately 46 lbs. in t
Eckrich, a John Morrell Food Group business that is a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, is celebrating the processor’s first of three primary race sponsorships of Aric Almirola and the No. 43 Richard Petty Motorsports Ford, and their partnership with Operat
US beef prices continue to increase as summer barbecue season is underway. During the past year, beef’s average retail price has increased 5.4 percent, including 0.6 percent in the past month, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Consumer Price
Murphy-Brown LLC, the livestock production subsidiary for Smithfield Foods Inc., has earned Smithfield’s Zero Hero Award for its environmental management performance in 2011.
During the past year, foodservice promotions featuring barbecue were most common in the summer months and least common in the winter, according to Technomic’s Category Close-Up: Barbecue report.
