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Ensuring strong supply chains in poultry processing
Supply chains both into and out of the processing plant need to be monitored with care if processors are to the supply the ...
Meat processing plant impact assessment not needed
An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been ruled unnecessary for a multi-million pound expansion by an English meat ...
Ag secretary defends USDA investment in now-bankrupt processor that dumped 1.3M chickens
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack defends USDA's investment in now-bankrupt Iowa plant, saying the agency's default rate is ...
East Idaho News2d
Local meat processing plant sued after allegedly failing to pay for over $2 million worth of cattle
A local meat packing processor is accused of not paying for over $2 million worth of livestock from multiple dairies in Idaho ...
Ammonia leak reported at Pitman Farms poultry plant in Sanger. Here’s what we know
It smelled and my head hurt, my throat was burning, my tongue was numb and I felt nauseous,” one poultry worker told The Bee.
coloradopolitics2d
Denver voters reject slaughterhouse ban, saving state's largest lamb meat processing plant
Denver voters rejected the proposal to shut down the city's only slaughterhouse. The results on Tuesday night showed voters ...
The Waterloo-Cedar Falls Courier4d
Secretary Vilsack discusses Pure Prairie Poultry closure, bird flu dairy testing program
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state departments of ag should work to ...
AgWeb3d
Chicken Supply Situation Prompts Pilgrim’s Pride to Close Two Facilities
Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation today announced plans to idle a chicken processing plant in Clinton, Ark., and a further-processing facility in Bossier City, La.as the company seeks to increase ...
Meat processor moves into new $8M facility converted from a newspaper printing plant
The new 54,000-square-foot facility, situated on 10 acres, will allow the meat processor to increase its processing and ...
The Gazette5d
EPA data: Meatpacking plants mostly pollute low-income, communities of color
Across the Midwest, meatpacking plants -- including Agri Star in Postville -- often pollute non-white communities and ...
BBC2d
Meat processing plant impact assessment not needed
An Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been ruled unnecessary for a multi-million pound expansion by an English meat processing firm into Scotland. Shropshire-based Pickstock wants to build ...