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For 31 years, Thomas Shelton has watched Case Farms grow from two employees (counting himself) and zero plants to approximately 3,200 employees, four processing plants, one further-processing plant, three feed mills and four hatcheries in Ohio and North Carolina today.

In February 2017, editor-in-chief Andy Hanacek visited with Thomas Shelton, chairman and founder of Case Farms, for an exclusive interview at his home. What follows is a portion of their discussion on the company’s past, present and future:

Traditional fMRI has not been widely used to investigate neural stimulation of consuming solid foods, because of potential safety hazards and poor imaging quality. Novel scanning methods could alleviate this.

In February 2015, the Smithfield Foods announced the "One Smithfield" initiative, phasing out the IOC model in favor of a structure organized more closely around customer needs than brands.

Tom Eickman and his wife, Katie, represent the next in a line of family members that have overseen Eickman’s Processing, maintaining its tradition as an award-winning, widely respected meat processor.

Consumers are more educated about ethnic foods than ever before, and the diversity of food within the Asian world is too great to be stuck in one generic grouping.

At the 2016 American Cured Meat Championships, Holland Brothers broke through, winning twice in the bacon categories.

In 2015, the U.S. had its largest increase in seafood consumption in 20 years and was the second largest consumer of seafood in the world after China.

Part of the selling point for AdvancePierre Foods (APF) to potential investors leading up to the company’s initial public offering (IPO) last year was the claim that APF was a veritable expert on acquiring smaller companies.

When forecasting what to expect for the meat industry in 2017, the first thing on everybody’s mind is: "What does a Trump presidency mean to my business and the industry?"