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US beef meets rejection at foreign ports

Foreign ports plan to turn away almost all the 46,200 tons of United States beef now at sea, according to a Washington Post newspaper report. Japanese...

Tyson plant workers ratify labor contract
, from staff and wire reports

Workers at the Tyson Foods Inc pork processing plant in Logansport IN have ratified a new 4-1/2-year labor agreement that provides improvements in wages...

Tyson will shut two meat processing plants
, from staff and wire reports

Tyson Foods Inc will close two meat processing facilities in Manchester NH and Augusta ME in early February 2004. The plant in Manchester, which employs...

Overhill Farms sustains losses in fiscal 2Q

Overhill Farms Inc, which has nationwide operations in the frozen food industry, announced operating results for its second quarter ended March 30, 2003....

Smithfield wins bidding for Farmland assets

Smithfield Foods Inc won the bidding at an auction to acquire substantially all of the assets of Farmland Foods, the pork production and processing business...

Turkey helps Hormel earnings trot forward
, from staff and wire reports

Austin MN-based Hormel Foods CorpÕs quarterly earnings climbed in its fiscal fourth quarter, assisted by solid numbers for its refrigerated foods branch...

Tyson brings its chicken products to Canada
, from staff and wire reports

Tyson Foods Inc and Export Packers Co Ltd of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, have announced a joint venture to produce fully cooked chicken products for sale...

Tyson brings home the bacon in fiscal 4Q
, from staff and wire reports

Tyson Foods Inc reported fiscal fourth-quarter 2003 sales of $6.6 billion compared with $5.8 billion for the same period a year ago. Operating income...

Up to 600 to lose jobs at Tyson chicken plant

Tyson Foods plans to eliminate up to 600 jobs or about one-third of the workforce at its chicken processing plant in Hope AR, according to a Houston Chronicle...

Overhill Farms weathers losses in fiscal third quarter

Overhill Farms Inc, which has nationwide operations in the frozen food industry, announced operating results for its fiscal third quarter ended June 29,...