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The final round of financing will allow Northern Beef Packers to meet the growing global demand for high-quality, American raised beef.

The report makes clear that today’s modern hog farms combine the best of traditional farming practices with the benefits of modern technology and agriculture science.

Over 400 Pinnacle Foods Workers in Fort Madison who are members of the United Food and Commercial Workers International Union voted 6 to authorize a strike to protest the company’s plan to eliminate their pension plan.

Fred Turner, who started as one of Ray Kroc’s original employees at McDonald’s and became CEO, died Monday from complications from pneumonia.

Mintel has identified four trends set to impact the restaurant industry in 2013.

The agreement, effective March 2013, will cover commercial barbecue food products for healthcare, and allow the purchase of commercial or commodity products for K-12 schools and universities.

The notice announces the 2013 rates that FSIS will charge meat and poultry establishments, egg products plants, and importers and exporters for providing voluntary, overtime, and holiday inspection and identification, certification, and laboratory services.

At the end of 2012 it had successfully transitioned 38% of pregnant sows on its company-owned farms in the United States from individual gestation stalls to group housing systems.

Brazil, the world's No. 1 beef exporter, is considering retaliation at the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the countries do not lift the bans.

Davison will be responsible for acquisition, merger and divestiture activities, strategic planning and implementing high impact projects.