Alliance Group has invested over $2m to install a new beef x-ray technology at two of its plants in New Zealand to improve packaging and labeling of meat products. The New Zealand red meat processor and exporter has deployed the new x-ray ...
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Cargill's protein business headquarters will remain in Wichita and relocate from 151 North Main Street to a new office building which will be built at a yet-to-be-determined site within the city limits. The company's decision was made ...
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The process of producing a hearty steak is more complex than many may think. At Cargill's beef processing facilities across the nation, producing cuts of meat requires many intricate steps, in the hands of an army of employees who work 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 ...
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Miratorg, Russia’s leading meat producer, has opened the country’s biggest beef processing complex in the Vygonichsky district of Bryansk Oblast. The complex has a production capacity of 40,000 tons per year, reports ...
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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 ...
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Soybeans were higher on commercial and technical buying. The near term supply remains tight and demand continues to look good, but China's celebrating their New Year, which could take them out of the market for a while. However, while there ...
The XL Foods' nationwide recall of beef products in 2012 over E.coli contamination was preventable and was caused due to lax approach towards food safety, according to an independent review initiated by the Canadian government. In 2012, ...
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JBS USA, a wholly owned subsidiary of Brazilian meat processor JBS, has opened a ground beef production facility at the JBS beef processing plant in Tolleson, Arizona. The new facility, which began production last week, features a modern ...
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Cargill has secured a deal to acquire two animal feed mills from the bankrupt Pennfield Corporation in the US for US$9.8m. Cargill said today (18 January) that the deal for the mills, located in Mount Joy and Martinsburg in Pennsylvania, ...
American agribusiness company Cargill has announced that it will idle its beef processing facility in Plainview, Texas, on 1 February 2013, and lay off 2000 workers. The company has blamed reduced cattle supply resulting from years of ...
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American agribusiness company Cargill has announced that recent investments by the company at its Fort Morgan, Colorado beef processing plant, totaling approximately $1.8m, have increased the facility's energy efficiency and reduced the use ...
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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 ...
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American agribusiness company Cargill is set to acquire ground beef processing plant in Texas,US,from AFA Foods for$14.1m,in a deal that will strengthen its existing beef business. The deal,which includes the purchase of all working ...
Tags: beef, ground beef patties, acquisition