With the economic downturn easing, the restaurant industry is expected to show gradual improvement in 2010, according to the National Restaurant Association's 2010 Restaurant Industry Forecast released today. Industry sales
Sioux City officials say the John Morrell & Co. meatpacking plant, one of the city's largest employers, will close this spring. The plant has about 1,500 workers. The Sioux City
Huntington Meat Packing Inc., a Montebello, Calif. establishment, is recalling approximately 864,000 pounds of beef products that may be contaminated with E. coli O157:H7, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food
The Oscar Mayer brand is launching the largest advertising campaign in its 125-year history. The “It Doesn’t Get Better Than This” campaign is the first multi-category advertising campaign to span
A Wall Street upgrade of Tyson Foods Inc. shares on Thursday reflects investor appetite for U.S. meat producers, with the industry looking to capitalize on lower feed-grain costs and stronger
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that the country would find alternative poultry import sources if the United States did not observe new safety rules. "If some foreign suppliers do
USDA projects U.S. corn production at a record 13.2 billion bushels, up from 12.9 billion bushels projected in USDA’s December forecast and 1 percent above the previous record of 13.0
Four companies – Catelli Brothers, Delimax Veal Inc., NRV, and Specialty Meats Inc. – have merged to become one of the largest vertically integrated veal organizations in the U.S. As
USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack said he was hoping for “meaningful” talks with Russia over the country's ban on U.S. poultry products, saying that relations between the two countries would be
An expert witness for the poultry industry concluded that the State of Oklahoma's report showing phosphorus pollution was incomplete, rife with errors and “not scientifically defensible.” The scientist, Victor Bierman,
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