National Beef Packing Company has announced that it will invest $8m to expand its boxed beef storage and shipping capabilities at its Liberal facility in Kansas. The Missouri-based company will add a palletizer, sorters, crane along with ...
J.R. Simplot Company and Caviness Beef Packers are planning to build a $100m beef processing plant near Kuna, in the US state of Idaho. To be spread over an area of around 300,000ft2, the proposed plant will be fully approved by spring of ...
Tags: beef industries, dairy, Agriculture
US-based National Beef Packing is set to shut its beef processing plant in Brawley, California, due to a drop in supply of fed cattle. The company expects the last day of production at the plant to be 4 April 2013. The closure will ...
Tags: Beef Packing, Food
National Beef Packing Company announced today that they will be closing their beef processing facility in Brawley, California in early April. The closure is the result of tight margins due to declining cattle numbers. The plant employs ...
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A Monday evening fire at Cargill's beef packing plant in Dodge City caused a temporary shutdown of operations. The plant is expected to resume operations in full on Monday. USDA says there were 445 million pounds of beef in cold storage ...
Tags: Cattle, Agriculture, Food
National Beef Packing, a Kansas-based establishment, is recalling about 690 pounds of beef tongue root filet products, as they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and ...
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National Beef Packing is recalling approximately 50,100 pounds of ground beef products as they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The ...
National Beef Packing of Kansascapproximately 22,737 pounds of raw ground beef products as they may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, according to the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). The ...
JBS, a Brazilian meat manufacturer, has completed the acquisition of beef processor Independencia for BRL268m ($142.8m). JBS had announced its intention to acquire Independencia's beef business in April 2012. The company funded the ...
Brazilians meat firm JBS expects to complete the acquisition of key XL Foods assets within a week, and is seeking regulatory approval to handle the stricken Canadian group's US operations. JBS said today (10 January) it expects to ...
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Brazilian beef firm JBS has entered into an agreement that will see its US business assume operational control of the Canadian operations of XL Foods, the company at the centre of a large-scale food scare. JBS USA will take management of ...
Tags: beef, large-scale, food safety recall, e.coli bacteria