Meat & Poultry

Sanderson Farms stock has fully recovered from the bear market and has broken through to a lifetime high, powered by continued monthly price gains. Is there anything left on the upside for this stock? …

That wailing you hear in the distance is the sound of small meat processors begging the USDA for mercy. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety Inspection Service recently proposed a set of new regulations that will require all meat processors to submit their products to a new series of tests, a procedure that can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars for even a modestly scaled operation, enough to cripple many small processors. …

The Department of Justice and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced today additional details regarding the public workshop that will be held on May 21 at Alabama A&M University in Normal, Ala., to explore competition and regulatory issues in the agriculture industry. The focus of the workshop will be consolidation and contracting practices of the poultry sector. The first joint public workshop was held last month in Ankeny, Iowa. …

Continuing her commitment to keep all families safe from contaminated food, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand today urged U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack to include six additional strands of E. coli as hazardous adulterants that need to be tested by the USDA.
Next Large-Scale Outbreak Could Come From Six Untested E. Coli Strands …

Butterball LLC. has appointed Steve Swan as the new Complex Manager for its Mt. Olive plant and also announce the addition of Anita Colglazier who will be serving as the director of quality further processing, responsible for quality and food safety at the Mount Olive, N.C., Kinston, N.C., Longmont, Colo., and Jonesboro, Ark. plants. …