Facility News

USDA unfreezes $55.8 million in grant funds after review

The USDA on Friday released $55.8 million in 2024 Local Meat Capacity Grant funding...

Poultry plant layoffs trigger investigation

Alabama-based poultry processing company AlaTrade Foods is at the center of an investigation...

Stakeholders split over USDA’s Salmonella framework withdrawal

Consumer advocates and industry leaders offered contrasting reactions to the USDA’s...

Faster line speeds under the microscope

Researchers from the University of California system and from Georgia Tech collaborated...

Tyson facility evacuated due to ammonia leak

An ammonia leak at a Tyson Foods chicken processing facility in Monroe, NC forced...

Pork plant cuts ties with sanitation service; 72 employees affected

The sanitation company Fortrex will cease services at the Quality Pork Processors...

Federal judge to halt revocation of program affecting meat plant workers

A U.S. District judge in Massachusetts plans to issue an order to stop the revocation...

FSIS delays salmonella sampling program

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service will push the implementation of...

Friday, February 21, 2025

Federal grant freeze stymies meat processing projects

Tyson sets upcoming plant closure in phased approach: report

Largest meat processing plant, retailer in Alabama opens

South Dakota packing plant to break ground soon

Friday, February 07, 2025

Beef giant invests $200M despite shrinking herd

California poultry firm lays off 500 employees

Plant knocked out for weeks after fire: Amick Farms

Premium Iowa Pork to reopen former Hylife plant

Friday, January 17, 2025

Tyson explosion kills 1, injures others

Meat processor pays $3.7M for identity theft scheme

Meatpacking company seeking variance for slaughterhouse

OSHA investigating death at Tyson facility

Friday, December 20, 2024

Nestlé spending $150M to expand S.C. frozen meal plant

Tyson, Butterball announce facility closures, impacting 1,200 workers

Processor investing $145M for facility expansion

New York processor to double capacity with $21M expansion

Friday, November 15, 2024

Hormel launches $30M expansion at Jennie-O plant

Vermont State U. launches construction of campus meat plant

Tyson in negotiations to sell shuttered Iowa facility

Federal govt. grants $20M for processors; additional money for small processors

Friday, October 18, 2024

Ongoing investigation preventing Boar’s Head records requests

Pure Prairie files for Ch. 11 bankruptcy relief

Ground broken on halal processing expansion

Co-op asks city to push back deadlines on beef processing plant

Friday, September 20, 2024

Boar’s Head decides future of Virginia plant

Tyson addresses plant closures, cattle herd at Barclays conference

Hill Meat Company breaks ground on $18M facility expansion

Fair Oaks Food plant construction to resume after yearlong delay

Friday, August 16, 2024

DOL settles lawsuit with Mar-Jac over teenager death

Tyson cites production shift for job cuts at Tyson complex in N.C.

Smithfield closes purchase of Cargill’s Nashville dry sausage plant

More than 30 hospitalized after ammonia leak at sous vide facility