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Agri Star Meat & Poultry plans to rebuild its Postville, Iowa, processing facility after a fire this week destroyed an estimated 75% of the plant, according to the company's social media. Postville Fire Chief Jeff Bohr told local news the fire started accidentally in the plant's laundry room and spread...

Ukrop's Homestyle Foods is recalling about 22,880 pounds of baked spaghetti and chicken cobbler products that may be contaminated with metal slivers, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) said.

Charcuterie Artisans has unveiled a leadership transition, appointing consumer packaged goods finance executive Sergey Pashyan as chief financial officer while Monday announcing the retirement of CEO Jeff “Trip” Tripician after a 42-year career in the premium meat and dairy industries. The changes come as the specialty charcuterie manufacturer shifts from...

A federal judge has granted preliminary approval to settlements between direct purchaser plaintiffs and four turkey producers — House of Raeford Farms, Prestage Farms, Foster Farms and Perdue Farms — in the long-running turkey antitrust litigation pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois. In an...

It’s been said a million times at this point, “winching is pushing the sport of wakeboarding to a new level.” Everyone has pretty much accepted it, and if you haven’t, you should. But at this point winching is not even original anymore. Every wakeboarder and wakeskater has played on a wide array of drop sizes, most have built pretty legit pool gaps, and a large handful have shredded the hell outta some boards on concrete. So what makes a winch spot original?

Cargill said the food and agriculture industry's biggest challenge is shifting from producing more food to moving it more efficiently through increasingly complex global supply chains, as the company outlined its long-term strategy in its latest annual report. In a letter accompanying the report, Board Chair and CEO Brian Sikes...

SuKarne, Mexico's largest meat exporter, is exploring a potential sale that could value the company at more than $2 billion, according to a Reuters report citing people familiar with the matter. The company is working with Rabobank and BBVA on the sale process, though no transaction is guaranteed, the sources...

A federal judge has cleared the final legal hurdle for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for hundreds of thousands of Haitians, a move expected to accelerate job losses and deportation proceedings for workers employed across industries including meat processing, according to The Washington Post. U.S. District...

Rosemary Mucklow, a longtime meat industry association executive whose career spanned more than five decades and helped shape U.S. meat processing policy and trade, died July 21. She was 94. Mucklow began her industry career in 1961 as a stenographer for the Pacific Coast Meat Jobbers Association, later the Pacific...

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