Defrauded Producers and Farmers Throughout the Midwest for Nearly Two Decades
An Iowa corporation and four of its high-level managers have been sentenced in federal court after law enforcement uncovered a wide-ranging scheme to defraud that victimized livestock producers throughout...
Source: Star-Tribune
By early June, HyLife plans to close its factory in Windom. Unless a buyer emerges, more than 1,000 workers will be out of a job. Many in town are wondering what's next.
WINDOM, MINN.
T
he men sit in the lobby...
Source: KTVO News
KTVO News has been receiving viewer messages regarding the possible closings of some northern Missouri facilities owned by Smithfield Foods.
An employee who spoke on condition of anonymity told KTVO the company president announced this week that Smithfield...
Source: The Press
This is terrible news for Quebec's agri-food industry.
The giant with its 8.2 billion dollars in revenue and its 16,150 employees lost money in 2021 in two of its three main divisions.
Sollio owns 84% of Olymel, the leading...
Source: CTV News
Saskatoon rendering plant is apologizing for a pile of pigs that were left outside its business on Monday.
West Coast Reduction, based in Vancouver, recycles food waste and by-products from farmers and restaurants.
The pigs left outside the Miner's...
Source: The Carolina Journal
The N.C. Supreme Court has rejected a lawsuit challenging 2017 and 2018 state laws addressing hog farm regulations.
A unanimous N.C. Court of Appeals panel had ruled against the lawsuit in December 2021.
The N.C. Supreme...
Source: Bloomberg
Professor John McGlone of Texas Tech University trekked to Manitoba, Canada, in the dead of winter to warn hundreds of local pork farmers that the way they did business was about to change.
McGlone knew McDonald’s Corp., the world’s...
Source: Triangle Business Journal
Nearly three years after a shooting at its meatpacking plant in eastern North Carolina, pork processor Smithfield Foods has launched a federal lawsuit against the staffing firm that hired the man convicted of the crime.
As described...
A federal judge said Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s rules for inspecting pigs before they are sent to slaughter are not “arbitrary and capricious,” nor do they violate food safety standards.
A federal judge sided with the feds Friday, finding that...
Source: FoodTank
Two decades ago, the confinement hog barn at Flaherty Family Farms in central Iowa, was degraded beyond repair. The cost of rebuilding was too high for Travis Flaherty and his father to continue with that side of their...
