Seaboard Triumph Foods (STF) is set to begin commercial operations at its new pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa from 5 September 2017. STF said that the new facility will make use of robotics and other technologies to supply a ...
Pork processor Moon Ridge Foods has opened its new pork processing plant in Pleasant Hope in the US state of Missouri. Operations in the pork processing plant are scheduled to start in mid-September this year. The plant will be Moon ...
China’s Aoxin Tianli Group, a producer of breeder hogs, market hogs and black hogs, has signed an agreement with Shangzhi Xiaop (Dalian) E-Commerce to sell its products online. As per the agreement, Aoxin Tianli will sell its ...
Burnsville-based Valley Natural Foods has announced that it would invest $2m to open a wholesale meat processing plant in Northfield, Minnesota. The company has purchased 16 acres of land, including a building, for the new plant, Valley ...
'Spin Master has established a strong foundation in Central Eastern Europe and we're confident we will build a powerful presence in the region,' says Spin Master's Ben Gadbois. Spin Master has revealed plans to boost its operations in ...
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Canada-based poultry and pork products manufacturer Olymel is planning to invest over $25m to expand its hog slaughterhouse and butchering facility at St-Esprit in the Lanaudière region. Upon completion, the expanded facility is ...
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Concourse Sports LLC has reached an agreement to acquire Team Express Inc., which filed for bankruptcy protection in mid-December. Concourse will act as the stalking horse bidder in the case and may be outbid at an auction set for May 4. ...
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The World Trade Organisation (WTO) has ruled that Canada and Mexico could impose tariffs worth $1bn on goods from the US in response to the latter's COOL law. The global trade body stated that the US meat labelling law is ...
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When asked whether he had envisioned the impact that his revolutionary blue LED would have in years to come, new Nobel physics laureate Shuji Nakamura’s answer was in typically modest and candid. “No!” he replied in a ...
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When corn is cheap, hogs get plentiful. The annual Pork Powerhouses ranking of the 25 largest producers in the U.S. shows a gain of 128,000 sows in the past year. With two new packing plants set to open in 2017, producers are gearing up to ...
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Northwest Iowa has become the epicenter of the bird flu story that's developed over the last few weeks, with continued culls ordered as more birds -- now more than 20 million -- become exposed to the virus. Yet, now there's news that the ...
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Canada and Mexico will move World Trade Organization (WTO) for authorization to slap $3bn in tariffs against the US, as a retaliatory trade measure over meat packaging. The bone of contention is the 2009 laws, which, according to Canada ...
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Seaboard Foods and Triumph Foods have formed a joint venture to construct a new pork processing facility in Sioux City, Iowa. The site work is expected to begin this summer and construction wil be completed by July 2017. The plant is ...
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Niman Ranch have added three more items—Smoked Uncured Honey Ham, Applewood Smoked Uncured Ham and Smoked Uncured Black Forest Ham—to its range of products. Niman Ranch provides hogs that are reared by a network of over 700 ...
Cargill has resumed operations at its hog slaughtering plant in Beardstown, Illinois. This plant processes 19,500 hogs a day. The plant slaughter operations were suspended on 23 January 2015 due to equipment failure, reports Reuters. ...