Articles Tagged with ''Butterball''

In this video interview, former Butterball COO Joe Nalley discusses the issue of labor shortages and how automation helps that problem.

Through my 46 years in the business, I’ve witnessed some key changes. Today, across essentially all proteins, the live animals are being harvested at 50 percent to 80 percent heavier weights and consuming 30 percent or so less feed per pound of gain.

In this video interview, former Butterball COO Joe Nalley discusses how the industry has improved overall quality by engaging the entire company and how understanding what “quality” means is key to meeting consumer demands.

In this video interview, former Butterball COO Joe Nalley discusses how companies have used vertical integration to become more efficient and what drives efforts toward efficiency.

In this video interview, former Butterball COO Joe Nalley discusses how the size of the animal coming into market has increased, how equipment had to change to accommodate that, and how they handled consumer concerns about bigger animals.