With an increasing demand for cut-up and tray-packed poultry and as global demand for convenient, ready-to-cook, packaged chicken pieces increases, processors have been investing in new technology to make the process easier and more efficient.

Tuscaloosa, Ala.-based Peco Foods announces that Tuscaloosa Plant Manager Tim Daniel will retire in March after 25 years with the company. Clarence Lumpkin has been named the new Tuscaloosa plant manager.

The meat industry's labor shotage is an onslaught by many conspirators, and a problem that will require many approaches. This is the fourth in a series of articles exploring labor issues in the meat industry.

PSSI, one of the largest contract sanitation providers across the USDA, FDA and CFIA food processing industries, today unveiled a new logo and website as part of a larger strategy to broaden the company’s position and brand as the leading food safety solutions company.

Faster, but how much faster? Pushing production to maximum efficiency while maintaining food safety and worker safety begs that question. When it comes to answering it, not surprisingly, there is a difference of opinion.

For the third straight year, Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE:TSN) ranked No. 1 on Fortune magazine’s list of the World’s Most Admired Companies in the Food Production category.

Devenish is pleased to announce the addition of three new poultry team members to the North America division. Jim Milam joins as a Poultry Account Manager, Mahmoud Masa’deh joins as a Poultry Nutritionist, and Neal Matthews joins as a Poultry Account Manager.

Innovations often come from unexpected places and circumstances. In 2008-2009 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) issued a challenge to roboticists. DARPA wanted roboticists to create a robot that could motivate itself to a door, get under the door and motivate itself away.

Springdale, Ark. - As part of the integration of recently acquired Keystone Foods and the company’s global growth efforts, Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) today announced changes to the enterprise leadership team that reports directly to President and CEO Noel White, effective January 28, 2019. They include:  

Barring a major disease outbreak that causes a human health crisis, chicken won’t be toppled this year from its longtime perch as the most consumed protein in America. That’s because the US will produce 54 percent more chicken than beef or pork.