Tyson has won a bidding contest to buy Hillshire Brands, the maker of Jimmy Dean sausages and Ball Park hot dogs, with an offer of $63 per share. The company beat out rival meat heavyweight Pilgrim’s Pride.
Researchers at Plymouth State University are exploring whether New Hampshire residents raising livestock would be well served by a state certified meat processing plant.
Hillshire Brands says it will hold separate talks with Pilgrim’s Pride and Tyson Foods, as the two meat processing heavyweights engage in a bidding war for the maker of Jimmy Dean sausages and Ball Park hot dogs.
Tyson Foods said Monday that its second-quarter net income more than doubled, benefiting from strong demand for chicken and higher prices for beef and pork.
Twenty-five pharmaceutical companies are voluntarily phasing out the use of antibiotics for growth promotion in animals processed for meat, the Food and Drug Administration said Wednesday.
The state of Utah is pushing back against animal-welfare activists who contend a state law to prevent filming of agricultural operations is designed to silence them.
