Soft Robotics Inc. (SRI) recently announced its $26 million Series C of financing, which would use funds to expand commercial deployment of its mGripAI robotic picking solutions.

Following a recent cyberattack in November, Maple Leaf Foods Inc. said it would not pay a ransom demanded by the hackers who created system outages.

Hormel Foods Corp. will increase advertising spend on its turkey portfolio in fiscal 2023 after raising prices in fiscal 2022. Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) should continue to impact the turkey category negatively in the next fiscal year, but to what degree remains unknown.

US Foods Holding Corp. announced on Nov. 28 that Dave Flitman would become the company’s chief executive officer starting on Jan. 5, 2023.

Expanding its oilseeds network, Cargill has entered a definitive agreement to acquire Owensboro Grain Co. LLC, a fifth-generation, family-owned soybean processing facility and refinery located in Owensboro, Ky.

The Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) of the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a public health alert that fully cooked summer sausage produced by Trimble, Mo.-based Paradise Locker Meats, might be contaminated with extraneous materials, specifically plastic.

Pilgrim’s UK, a business unit of Pilgrim’s Pride Corp., plans to produce over 4 million pork products in preparation for the surge of demand this holiday season.

Tyson Foods Inc. announced an investment of $18 million in the Mississippi economy through an expansion of the company’s hatchery in Walnut Grove, Miss.

US Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) recently announced new legislation to hold corporations responsible for disaster mitigation and humane animal handling practices.

The latest reports of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) bring the current total number of affected birds in the United States well above the estimated record of 50 million birds from the wave in 2015.