Cargill Pork, Wichita, Kan., said it paid approximately $33 million to buy a 21,500-acre hog production site near Dalhart, Texas, from Premium Standard Farms LLC, a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods.
Chicken, beef and pork processing giant Tyson Foods, Inc., Springdale, Ark., said it became the first major food company to become a full member of the IMAGE program.
Poultry, beef and pork processing giant Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., said the company entrepreneurial former Chairman and CEO Donald J. Tyson, died today, Thursday, January 6, 2011.
Pork processing giant Smithfield Foods, Inc., Smithfield, Va., said hired Michael Brown as president and chief operating officer of Farmland Foods, Inc., effective October 4, 2010.
Canadian meat and bakery foods giant Maple Leaf Foods, Toronto, plans to build new meat processing plants and bakeries -- while it closes other facilities.