Reading Time: < 1 minute Tyson Food will permanently close a meat plant in Emporia, Kansas, that employs more than 800 people, according to a letter the company sent to the state on Monday.
Tyson Foods to close Kansas meat plant, cutting more than 800 jobs
Brazil’s JBS sees strong demand for meat in US
Reading Time: < 1 minute Brazil's JBS, the world's largest meatpacker, sees "very strong" demand for beef, pork and chicken in the U.S., said the president of JBS USA, Wesley Batista Filho on Thursday during the firm's third quarter earnings call.
Brazil fines meat packers $64 million for buying cattle from deforested Amazon land
Reading Time: < 1 minute Brazil's environmental protection agency IBAMA has imposed 365 million reais (C$88.9 million) in fines on cattle ranches and meat packers, including the world's largest JBS SA, for raising or buying cattle on illegally deforested land in the Amazon.
Canada Packers name reemerges as Maple Leaf spins off pork division
Reading Time: < 1 minute Maple Leaf Food's pork division, set to separate into an independent company, will be named Canada Packers.
JBS posts profit as chicken and pigs make up for beef slump
Reading Time: 2 minutes Brazil's JBS SA, the world's largest meatpacker, said on Tuesday that divisions that process chicken and pigs lifted its results, including poultry unit Pilgrim's Pride, JBS USA Pork in the U.S., and Seara in Brazil.
CFIA won’t enforce some ritual slaughter requirements after appeal from Jewish organizations
Reading Time: 2 minutes The CFIA will no longer require three determinations of unconsciousness previously mandated for ritually slaughtered animals after a recent federal court ruling. Jewish organizations and companies had appealed the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) regulations in court, claiming they made kosher slaughter difficult, which resulted in a disruption in supply of kosher meat in Canada.
Maple Leaf Foods plans to split into two independent public companies
Reading Time: < 1 minute Maple Leaf Foods is splitting into two independent public entities by spinning off its pork business, it said today.
Maple Leaf Foods will retain a 19.9 per cent ownership position in the newly formed pork company, the name of which will be announced in the coming months, the company said.
Agreement reached at Guelph Cargill plant
Reading Time: 2 minutes Nearly 1,000 unionized employees at Cargill Dunlop in Guelph ratified a new collective agreement on Saturday July 6. The workers, represented by Local 175 of the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW), began strike action after turning down a deal on May 26.
Guelph Cargill strike vote to take place Saturday
Reading Time: < 1 minute Striking workers at Cargill's Dunlop beef processing plant in Guelph have a recommended memorandum of settlement in place and they will vote on the possible deal on Saturday.
Rains partially collapse roof at Kansas Cargill plant
Reading Time: < 1 minute Cargill plans to resume slaughtering cattle on Friday at its Dodge City, Kansas, beef plant, after weekend rains caused a partial roof collapse, the company said on Tuesday.
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