Tag: meat processing
Meat processors face uphill battle to meet demand
While it may not be pretty, meat processing is arguably the most important part of the whole local food system.
PSU Extension Butcher School fills gap in workforce training
Labor shortages is a big issue butchers run into when trying to expand or even just run their businesses. Penn State Extension is trying to fix that.
Types of inspection for meat processors
Here are the four basic types of inspection a meat or poultry plant can operate under and what that means to you.
Big Meat Gang not slim, but kind of shady
Learn how meatpackers used lobbyists to influence policy related to staffing requirements amid COVID-19 and how the death of Tony Corbo may compound things.
Silence of the lambs
Alan Guebert sheds some light on the many reasons to dislike JBS USA, the world's — and America's — largest meatpacker.
The bloody business of meatpacking
Alan Guebert digs into the systemic problems swirling around the meatpacking industry.
Another grain market domino falls
Marlin Clark analyzes the market impacts of major meat packing houses closing because of outbreaks of COVID-19 in their workers.
Meat packers hit hard by coronavirus pandemic
The packing industry is being hit hard by COVID-19, with meat facilities across the country slowing or suspending production because workers are sick or staying home.
Meatpackers gain market power
Lower cattle prices will not bring lower retail meat prices because meatpackers are really in the market power business, according to Alan Guebert.
Meat done the old-fashioned way
Bob Boliantz, owner of E.R. Boliantz Packing Co. in Ashland, Ohio, spent the last 40 years building relationships with local farmers and helping them develop a high quality product.
