Tyson Shows Rise in Sales
US - Tyson Foods has reported a rise in first quarter sales of 9.4 per cent compared to last year up to $8.3 billion.

HSUS to Question Tyson on Sow Stalls
US - At the annual shareholder meeting of Tyson Foods, today, Friday, a representative of The Humane Society of the United States will question company executives about why it has no plans to end the extreme...

SITES Certifies Novus International Campus
US - The global headquarters campus of Novus International, Inc. is one of the first pilot projects to be certified by the Sustainable Sites Initiative (SITES) for its sustainable site design, construction...

Hormel to End Sow Stalls by 2017
US – Multinational marketer of consumer-branded food and meat products, Hormel Foods Corporation, is to phase out gestation stalls at its farms by 2017.

US Companies Hit Back at Cruelty Allegations
US - US pig meat processor Seaboard Foodsha hit back at allegations contained a Humane Society of the United States video alleging abuse of animals.

First Product Candidate Moving Toward Commercialization
US - Novus International Inc., a leading manufacturer of animal and human nutrition and health products and Verenium Corporation, a leading industrial biotechnology company focused on the development and...

Pork Commentary: Iowa Pork Congress Report
US - The North American Swine Industry is mostly situated where grain and soybeans are grown. The high price of these crop commodities has increased farm land values in North America in there grain and...

MSD/Merck Animal Health Headquarter in New Jersey
US - MSD Animal Health, known as Merck Animal Health in the United States and Canada, yesterday announced that it intends to centralize certain functions at the existing Merck Campus in Summit, New Jersey,...

Cryovac Rolls Out New Ovenable Material at IPE 2012
US - Consumer-friendly ovenable rollstock is newest expansion to Oven Ease product line. The launch International Poultry of the product was during the 2012 International Poultry Expo in Atlanta.

US Hog Margins
US - Margins started 2012 off on a strong note, improving noticeably since the end of the year, writes Doug Lenhart.

Pfizer Animal Health Promotes Scott Webster
US - Pfizer Animal Health announces the promotion of Scott Webster, MS, to director for the IMPROVEST^® (gonadotropin releasing factor analog-diphtheria toxoid conjugate) team.

Pfizer Ends Residue Violation Worries
US - Pork producers now have a worry-free solution to help them continue their track record of producing safe, wholesome pork. The Pfizer Pork Residue Free Guarantee is an innovative solution that ensures...

Pork Commentary: Corn, Soybean, Weath Prices Drop
US - Corn, soybean, wheat prices all dropped last Thursday, Friday after the USDA released several grain inventory, production and usage reports, corn declined 60 cents a bushel, soybeans 46 cents a bushel,...

Swine Semen Packaging System Receives Award
US - ASABE, The American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers has announced that ReproQuest, Inc. has won an AE50 award for its RQ800 Swine Semen Packaging System.

Cargill Earnings Fall Sharply
US - International producer and marketer of food, agricultural, financial and industrial products and services, Cargill, has reported an 88 per cent fall in earnings in the second quarter of the 2012 financial...

Installation of Next Generation Technology Complete
US - Premium Standard Farms (PSF) announced yesterday that it has successfully completed installing Next Generation Barn Scraper Technology at its farms in north Missouri seven months ahead of schedule....

Animal Agriculture Alliance's 25th Anniversary
US - Yesterday, the Animal Agriculture Alliance debuted a new logo to kick off its 25th anniversary celebration. Founded in 1987 as the Animal Industry Foundation, the Alliance is the nation’s oldest...

Holton Named Seaboard Foods’ President and CEO
US - Seaboard Corporation has announced that Terry J. Holton has been appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Seaboard Foods LLC.

US Hog Margins
US - Margins have set back some over the past two weeks due mainly to lower hog prices. Profit margins continue to remain quite strong, particularly for the first and second quarters of 2012, writes Doug...

Saving Pigs Matters Most to Producers
US - Choosing a respiratory disease treatment that helps save pigs, time and money is an important component of an anti-infective programme, says Pfizer's Team Pork.

Novus Receives Sustainability Award
US - The Regional Chamber and Growth Association (RCGA) has recognised Novus International, Inc. week with a Circle of Excellence award as part of the organisation's Green Business Challenge.

Pork Commentary: California and Other Things
US - This past week we went to Southern California on business, it was our first time there, writes Jim Long in this week's Pork Commentary.

Smithfield to End Use of Gestation Stalls by 2017
VIRGINIA, US - President and CEO of Virginia-based Smithfield Foods reports that the company's livestock production subsidiary Murphy-Brown, LLC has made major progress toward the conversion from individual...

Smithfield Reports Robust Pork Earnings in Q2
US - Smithfield Foods' sales for the second quarter of fiscal 2012 were $3.3 billion, up 10 per cent, resulting from higher average unit selling prices and volumes in the pork segment.

Discrimination Complaint Filed against Cargill
US - The US Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs has filed an administrative complaint against federal contractor Cargill Meat Solutions, alleging that the company systematically...

Pork Commentary: US Per Capita Meat Consumption
US - In this week's Pork Commentary by Jim Long, he writes about the drop in US per capita meat and poultry consumption.

Hormel Foods Distributes Annual Profit Sharing
US — Hormel Foods Corporation distributed an annual profit share of more than $16.5 million to eligible hourly and salaried employees during this 73rd annual Thanksgiving Eve Day tradition.

Genesus Looks for Sales Person - US Midwest
US - Genesus is looking for Sales Representatives. You will see our ad in Feedstuffs (below). Why? Genesus sales and supply are growing rapidly. the company is adding sales people not replacing.

Plumrose Breaks Ground for New Facility
US - The construction now starts of Plumrose USA’s new factory in Council Bluffs in the USA which will gear the company for the future.

Hormel Sees Annual Profits Rise
US - US-based international meat and food processing giant, Hormel, has reported a rise in annual net earnings of 16 per cent to $474.2 million compared to $409 million last year.