Items Tagged with 'Smithfield'

Consumers who bought pork from companies named in a class action alleging price-fixing in the industry will receive about $13 million from JBS USA following a federal judge’s approval of a settlement.

A meat processing company is closing a harvesting and processing facility in California due to the rising costs of conducting business in the state.

JBS USA has named Karla Thieman senior vice president, public policy and government affairs, and Sarah Gallo has joined the Consumer Brands Association.

Lawmakers worried that China could gain control over the U.S. food system through land purchases are looking to curb the nation's grip on American farmland, despite no evidence of a spike in land sales to Chinese interests, according to an Agri-Pulse analysis of Agriculture Department data.

Smithfield Foods has announced the first participants of its contract grower program for Black and minority farmers.

House Democrats have moved their $3.5 trillion Build Back Better plan a step closer to the House floor, but the legislation is still a work in progress.

U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai and Canadian Trade Minister Mary Ng will travel to Mexico City July 7 to meet with Mexican Economy Secretary Tatiana Clouthier

Senate Democrats are pushing ahead with a $1.9 trillion stimulus plan, even as 10 Republican senators push President Joe Biden to agree to a scaled back version that could get bipartisan support.

President-elect Joe Biden will nominate a former labor leader, Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, to become labor secretary. That’s a critical position for farmers and farmworkers because of the Labor Department’s regulation of labor standards and authority over the H-2A visa program.