Joel Crews is the editor of MEAT+POULTRY and MEATPOULTRY.com. He leads an award-winning editorial team at Sosland Publishing Company, where he began covering the meat and poultry processing industry in 2000. Crews has traveled the globe covering industry-related events and has toured some of the highest profile processing plants in the world. He is well connected with industry icons as well as members and staff of the industry’s most prominent trade associations and is regarded as a thought leader with unmatched longevity among industry magazine editors covering this segment.
With a family-owned tradition dating back to 1941, Land O’Frost Inc., based in Lansing, Ill., has steadily grown as a respected processor of retail-based sliced lunch meats over the years.
Fire department personnel and rescue workers were called to Smithfield Foods’ pork processing plant in Tar Heel at approximately 1 a.m. on Jan. 6, responding to reports of an ammonia leak.
In addition to the three-day expo, which offers tens of thousands of attendees the opportunity to peruse the latest technologies and services from meat and poultry industry suppliers, the 2023 International Production & Processing Expo (IPPE), held in Atlanta Jan. 24-26, also provides abundant educational sessions.
Not unlike last year, Tyson Foods Inc. announced that beginning in mid-December, it will begin distributing a total of $50 million in year-end bonuses to its 90,000-plus hourly employees.
Firefighters from three area fire departments were called to help extinguish a fire on the roof of a Tyson Foods prepared foods plant in South Hutchinson, Kan., at approximately 7 p.m. on Dec. 2.
Tyson Fresh Meats Inc.’s Amarillo, Texas, beef processing plant announced on Nov. 16, the recall of 93,687 lbs of raw ground beef suspected of being contaminated with foreign material, which was reported to be “reflective, mirror-like material,” said the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service.
Tyson Foods Inc. said efforts to optimize its chicken business paid off in its latest quarter as the company reported record sales and earnings for its fiscal year-end results.
Tanmiah Food Co. and Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., have partnered to invest in expanding the poultry capacity of Supreme Foods Processing Co. (SFPC), a subsidiary of Tanmiah, to facilitate the company to increase its capacity of chicken production by 100,000 tonnes per year and its daily processing capacity to over 1 million birds as part of a deal that was signed in July 2022.
To optimize its operational efficiency in the United Kingdom, Pilgrim’s UK invested £800,000 ($780,000) to expand two lines at its pork processing plant in Bromborough, which are now operational.
Few items can be found on nearly every foodservice menu and transcend restaurant concepts and geographical lines, from fast-casual to QSRs, from the West Coast to the East Coast.