Agribusiness company Cargill is planning to relocate its meat slicing and packaging operations from its plant in Springfield, Missouri, to its facilities at Nebraska City, Nebraska, and Waco, Texas. The move comes after a thorough ...
New York-based investment company Gramercy Property Trust has acquired Alpha Packaging’s 211,000-square-foot manufacturing facility located in Overland, Missouri, for $11m. The property in the St. Louis County, which serves as ...
Tags: food, beverage, pharmaceutical industries, Agriculture
The consumer public has put out the call, and the hog industry is responding in a big way at the start of what's likely to be a year of major growth for the U.S. hog herd. New data show the breeding herd has climbed by 4%, with the number ...
Tags: hog industry, Agriculture
Inhance Technologies LLC, formerly known as Fluoro-Seal International, L.P., headquartered in Houston, Texas, has agreed to pay a $59,000 civil penalty and spend a minimum of $180,000 on systems to recycle hazardous hydrogen fluoride gas, ...
More than 160 technology companies based in the Midwestern region of the United States (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota and Wisconsin) will debut their consumer ...
Syngenta today announced that it has received the safety certificate for its Agrisure Viptera trait (MIR162) from China’s regulatory authorities, formally granting import approval. The approval covers corn grain and processing ...
The Saint Louis Brewery in the US will procure glass bottles for its Schlafly Beer from rigid packaging firm Ardagh Group. A long-term supply agreement to this effect has been signed between both the companies. As per the agreed ...
Tags: Glass Bottles, Beer Packaging, Agriculture
White House Rural Council and six federal agencies have selected 26 communities to be part of a federal initiative called Local Foods, Local Places. This initiative aims to provide technical support to integrate local food systems into ...
Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Battenfeld Technologies, Inc., an industry-leading provider of hunting and shooting accessories. The acquisition, which is expected to be accretive to Smith & ...
Tags: hunting, shooting accessories, Recreation
Working at the National Cotton Council of America since the last 12 years, Gary Adams has been named the next president of the cotton body. He takes over from Mark Lange, who retires in February, 2015 and will be officially anointed ...
Tags: cotton body, Cotton Council, Textile
Participants in the first DSP Group 20 behavioral coaching workshop are (front row, left to right): Dennis McCarron, facilitator; Ari Manetas, Claudine Manetas, Norm Gaither, DSP founder and owner; Shane Adams, Jeff Webster, Wes Hargrove; ...
Tags: Coaching Workshop, Auto
The Running Specialty Group (RSG) has acquired Kansas City-based Garry Gribble’s Running Sports, which operates five locations and expands RSG’s national footprint to Kansas and Missouri. “Garry is a true legend in this ...
US-based Boulevard Brewing has started construction on an expansion project in Kansas City, Missouri which will increase the company's fermentation capacity by 40%. The $12m Cellar Five project includes a fermentation facility spanning ...
Tags: Brewing Engineering, fermentation facility, Agriculture
Chicken processor Simmons Foods is planning to suspend operations at its manufacturing plant in the US city of Jay, citing inconsistent supply of hens and underutiltisation of the plant. Around 200 people working at the plant will be ...
Tags: Simmons Foods, Plant, Food
Corn harvest is almost to the halfway point in what some farmers are starting to say will be a "long fall," while soybean harvest continues to progress closer to the average pace, according to Monday's USDA-NASS Crop Progres report. ...