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The Trump administration has spent much of the past year trying to balance competing interests across the meat industry. It has ordered an investigation of the nation’s four largest beef processors over possible anticompetitive practices, while also pursuing deregulation intended to make meat processing easier and less costly. It has pledged to rebuild the smallest […]

Illinois is making economic development incentives available to help attract a buyer for Tyson Foods’ former beef processing plant in Joslin, state officials announced. Gov. JB Pritzker and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity said the state would make resources available through the Invest in Illinois Fund to prospective buyers. No company or […]

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The largest port of entry for cattle imports from Mexico will reopen on Aug. 24, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has confirmed. The crossing at Santa Teresa, N.M., previously handled 43% of the annual crossing of 1.25 million head — about 5% of the U.S. beef industry’s annual slaughter — before the long-standing border trade was […]

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The USDA’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) will utilize AI-assisted predictive models to more precisely anticipate where the New World screwworm (NWS) may spread next in order to rapidly focus eradication measures. According to ARS, this approach will allow USDA and other stakeholders to move all the more quickly to disrupt the NWS reproduction cycle and […]

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Sponsored in part by CME Group Turkey markets are headed into the home stretch of their race to the holidays with the passing of Labor Day. Processors have been ambivalent about selling whole birds this year, holding the wholesale whole-bird market price at record-high levels. The drama for the rest of the year will be […]

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