BPI (Beef Products, Inc.), Dakota Dunes, S.D., announced a corporate name change to empirical foods, and re-named its additional companies to empirical technology and empirical innovations.

An Agricultural Research Service (ARS)-led team completed a comprehensive life-cycle analysis quantifying the resource use and various environmental emissions of beef cattle production in the United States.

Sam Kane Beef Processors, LLC, Corpus Christi, Texas, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.

McDonald’s, Chicago, announced an antibiotic use policy to reduce the overall use of antibiotics, as defined by the World Health Organization.

Caviness Beef Packers, Amarillo, Texas, announced plans to expand its Hereford, Texas, beef facility to enable the addition of a second harvest and processing shift.

Golden West Food Group (GWFG), Vernon, Calif., partnered with Snake River Farms (SRF), Boise, Idaho, to produce value-added consumer packaged goods and distribute American Wagyu beef to premium retailers nationwide.

Cargill, Wichita, Kan., announced plans to install a system in its Guelph, Ontario, Canada-based beef processing plant to convert beef byproducts into a feed ingredient.

Schweid & Sons, Carlstadt, N.J., announced plans to open a new, cutting-edge ground beef processing facility in College Park, Ga.

JBS USA, Greeley, Colo., completed a nearly $100 million expansion project at its Hyrum, Utah, beef processing complex.

The Wooster, Ohio-based company completed an expansion with a 1,300-square-foot chilled meat lab.