Ohsonline.com

Using Technology to Enhance Safety for Farm and Food Processing Workers

With the farming season in full effect, and the harvest right around the corner, there is renewed focus on the state of labor for our essential agricultural and food processing workers. Due to ...
WSAZ

Food and Farm Coalition calls for end to meat processing tax

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WSAZ) -- Thursday marked “Local Food and Farms Day” at the West Virginia State Capitol. The West Virginia Food and Farm Coalition was on hand to celebrate local produce and local ...
Food Processing

Amick Farms to Expand Laurel, Mississippi, Processing Plant

Capital investment of $74.5 million will increase processing capacity from 800,000 birds per week to about 1.1 million at ...
American Farm Bureau Federation

As Processing Facilities Struggle with Labor, Spread Between the Wholesale Price of Meat and Livestock Prices Widens

The self-distancing and quarantine protocols put in place to slow the spread of COVID-19 have reduced economic growth, shuttered consumers in their homes and changed the way Americans purchase and ...
Berkshire Eagle

With grant in hand, Berkshire Agricultural Ventures attempts to ease the bottleneck in slaughterhouses

GREAT BARRINGTON — At the Hilltown Pork butchery in Canaan, New York, near the West Stockbridge town line, workers can only process so much beef, pork, lamb and goat meat. There isn’t enough space or ...
WKRG

Perdido River Farms breaks ground on new meat processing facility

ATMORE, Ala. (WKRG) – It’s the newest project for the Poarch Band of Creek Indians. “The facility here it’s not just for the tribe. This here will help the whole state,” said Perdido River Farms ...
VTDigger

Cambridge farmer expands into Granite State meat processing

The expansion is being funded by a $2.1 million local meat capacity grant, one of 33 recipients that received a chunk of the $26 million distributed through the program nationally. After weathering ...