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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, May 09, 2024
Projects across the country are set to receive funding from Department of Agriculture initiatives seeking to expand the number of processing facilities available to livestock producers.
The Biden administration is set to direct millions of dollars toward boosting the diversification of the nation’s meat processing capacity, but facilities planning on processing cattle could be timing their entry into the market at a difficult time.
The Biden administration’s plans to invest more than $1 billion in the meat sector rolled out on Monday can be expected to invest in several different types of facilities and include provisions to keep subsidized facilities from falling into the hands of major meatpackers.
A fire broke out overnight at a Nebraska beef packing plant owned by JBS USA, interrupting production at the facility as workers stayed home from Monday shifts.
Congress should be careful to avoid overbuilding processing capacity and instituting prescriptive marketing requirements as it studies its response to a pair of turbulent years in the beef industry, witnesses told a House Agriculture subcommittee Wednesday morning.
Cattlemen’s Heritage Beef Company plans to build a new beef packing plant in western Iowa, adding to the sector’s processing capacity amid calls for greater expansion and diversification of ownership.
A major pork processing plant is coming offline after almost 300 of its workers have tested positive for COVID-19, leaving many in the industry bracing for potential shockwaves yet to come.
