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Perdue Farms Inc. agreed to buy Natural Food Holdings and its Niman Ranch brand, a pork supplier for Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., as part of its goal to expand into organic and antibiotic-free meat.
Fast food chain Arby’s launched a support hotline for vegetarians and it has non-meat eaters up in arms.
Buying Applegate will give Hormel a brand that sources meat from about 1,800 family farms and sells a range of products from turkey deli slices and chicken strips to bacon and corn dogs.
To track the changing prices paid by consumers for five staples at the breakfast table— eggs, bacon, cereal, bananas, and coffee—we looked at the components of the Consumer Price Index from April 2014 to March 2015.
Food, agricultural and allied industry groups yesterday urged the parties involved in a labor dispute that’s affecting food exports that ship out of West Coast ports to resolve their differences as soon as possible.
Russia will ban billions of dollars worth of food imports from the U.S. and other nations in retaliation for sanctions over the turmoil in Ukraine.
December corn rose 1.25 cents to 4.32 a bushel.
The full impact on the U.S. pork industry of a merger between Smithfield Foods and Chinese firm Shuanghui are not yet known.
Report signals country to bar shipments from 1 U.S. plant and 2 Canadian plants; to step up testing from Brazil.
The proposal was withdrawn for procedural reasons.
Iowa farmers, like this pork producer from Sioux City, are committed to providing you with wholesome, safe food while caring for their animals and the land.
As corn futures plunged after USDA reported surprisingly high stocks, analysts wondered what livestock and poultry have been eating in place of corn.
Nestled in the rolling hills of central Missouri, Burgers’ Smokehouse is a legend in the ham and smoked meat world.
“The No. 1 reason slats go bad is age,” said Andy Altenburg at the 2019 Missouri Pork Expo. After 20 years building and repairing hog and cattle barns, he’s seen about every situation-gone-wrong you can imagine.
Wild boars are often seen as a symbol of good fortune in China, especially with the Chinese Lunar Year of the Pig Tuesday. Increased sightings of wild boars in Hong Kong, however, signal anything but “luck” to me.
New research shows that higher levels of protein after weight loss my reduce fatty liver disease. Increased protein during weight maintenance also reduces risk of type 2 diabetes, researchers say.
Results indicate that tail docking did not affect daily gain, feed intake, gain to feed ratio.