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The Justice Department is formally demanding information from the four biggest meatpackers in the United States, over potential antitrust violations. According to Bloomberg, the DOJ’s antitrust division sent civil investigative demands, which are akin to subpoenas, to the companies…and is talking with state attorneys general about the probe after growing calls for an in-depth investigation. Cur

Two Senate Democrats are questioning top American meatpackers about past shipments to China while America went through meat shortages in grocery stores across the country. Senators Elizabeth Warren and Cory Booker want to know by the end of this month how much pork, beef, and chicken those companies shipped to China during the coronavirus outbreak while warning of possible domestic meat shortages

The Justice Department has made a formal demand for information from the country’s four biggest meatpackers as they investigate potential antitrust violations. A Bloomberg article said that deepens the scrutiny of an industry that’s already been hit hard by plant shutdowns due to the coronavirus. The depar ...

The White House economic recovery group announced this week includes agriculture leaders. The Great American Economic Revival Industry Groups will “chart the path forward toward a future of unparalleled American prosperity,” according to a White House press release. The ...

Grocery store shelves will soon be restocked with meat products in “another week or so.” According to Politico that announcement comes from Tyson Foods CEO Noel White after a recent surge in demand for meat products. The U.S. has ample food supplies for those staying home under “social distancing” policies. White said Tyson has ...

Tyson Foods is coming out with a plant-based nugget.  The nation's biggest meat producer said today it will debut its plant-based nuggets this summer as part of a new brand.  Tyson's Raised & Rooted brand will sell plant-based and blended-meat products.  The new bra...

The Scott+Scott law firm has filed a class action lawsuit in federal district court in Chicago on behalf of R-CALF USA and four cattle-feeding ranchers from Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, and Wyoming.  The suit alleges the nation's four largest beef packers violated U.S. a...

The meat processing industry will likely come out of the extreme cold in the Midwest with nothing more than short-term supply disruptions. Meatingplace.com says those short-term delays will likely get made up quickly when the temperature begins to rise again...

Merck Animal Health and Tyson Foods are providing funding to Texas A&M University’s College of Agriculture and Life Sciences’ Poultry Science department to build a new research facility. Meat industry publication Meatingplace reports the two companies have provided a $500,000 gift for the laboratory where scientists will focus on solving intestinal health issues in poultry.   A Univ... Read Mo

A lobbyist for Tyson Foods was reported as one of the five victims wounded in the Washington, D.C. area shooting that targeted a Republican congressional baseball team practice.   A spokesperson for Tyson Foods told meat industry publication Meatingplace that Matt Mika, Tyson Foods director of government relations in Washington, D.C., ...