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Plukon Food Group makes another poultry acquisition in Spain
7+ hour, 10+ min ago (344+ words) Plukon Food Group has bought another poultry business in Spain, snapping up Av'cola Moraleja. Otherwise trading as Avimosa, Av'cola Moraleja builds on last year's transaction for Grupo Av'cola Hidalgo, a supplier of poultry products to retail, B2 B and foodservice customers....
Hormel Foods sells whole turkey business
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (471+ words) The buyer, Minnesota-based LSI, will assume supply contracts with third-party growers tied to Hormel's whole-bird turkey business. Hormel Foods has signed an agreement to sell its whole-bird turkey business to Life-Science Innovations (LSI) as part of the company's efforts to…...
Bird flu: Belgium latest to order farming restrictions
7+ mon, 5+ day ago (400+ words) Belgium is the latest European country to introduce stricter measures to curb bird flu following detections on a commercial site and a hobby holding." The country's Federal Agency for the Safety of the Food Chain (FASFC) said yesterday (22 October) it…...
US poultry major Perdue Farms to cut jobs
8+ mon, 2+ week ago (308+ words) The workers will permanently lose their jobs when second-shift operations end on 10 October. Perdue Farms will eliminate the second shift at a turkey processing plant in Washington, Indiana, resulting in hundreds of job losses. In a filing with Indiana state,…...
Foster Farms sells assets to US poultry peer Case Farms
9+ mon, 1+ day ago (384+ words) Foster Farms said it conducted the sale as part of its "focus on growing its core branded retail and foodservice channels". Foster Farms has finalised an agreement to transfer ownership of its network of facilities in Farmerville, Louisiana to poultry…...
Burnbrae Farms to build egg grading facility in Ontario
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (331+ words) Canadian egg producer Burnbrae Farms has started construction on a new egg grading facility in Strathroy, Ontario." The 150, 000 square feet site, located in the Molnar Industrial Park, is expected to be operational by late 2026." It will house advanced grading technologies,…...
Wayne-Sanderson Farms acquires Harrison Poultry
9+ mon, 4+ week ago (274+ words) Harrison Poultry is headquartered in Bethlehem in Georgia and employs more than 1, 000 people. Wayne-Sanderson Farms has acquired fellow US poultry processor Harrison Poultry with immediate effect. Financial details were not disclosed. The deal includes all Harrison Poultry assets, Wayne-Sanderson Farms…...
EU outlines new deal on food trade with Ukraine
10+ mon, 3+ week ago (310+ words) In June 2022, the EU temporarily suspended duties and quotas on Ukrainian farm products after Russia's invasion, which disrupted Ukraine's regular shipping routes from the Black Sea." The EU and Ukraine have reached an agreement in principle on a new trade…...
2 Sisters Food Group sells joint venture to Boparan Private Office
11+ mon, 1+ week ago (336+ words) All shares in the joint poultry farming venture Hook2 Sisters have now been sold. 2 Sisters Food Group and PD Hook have sold their joint venture, Hook2 Sisters, to the Boparan Private Office (BPO). Hook2 Sisters, which was founded in 2006 with a 50% ownership split…...