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Kraft Heinz announced it will combine its U.S. and Canada businesses to create the North America Zone, which is expected to be effective in the second fiscal quarter of 2022. 

Scheduled to break ground in spring 2022, the 500,000-square-foot Cattlemen’s Heritage beef-harvesting plant, to be located in northern Mills County just south of Council Bluffs, will harvest 1,500 head per day and employ up to 750 people. 

Conagra has received two reports to date of injury (dental damage) associated with the recalled product.

Nature Fresh Farms' Director of Business Development, Ray Wowryk, is the recipient of this year’s OPMA (Ontario Produce Marketing Association) Lifetime Achievement Award.

Tyson Foods is saying thank you to its frontline and hourly team members by giving them approximately $50 million in year-end bonuses for their efforts over the past year. For team members in the U.S., these one-time bonuses will be based on tenure, range from $300 to $700, and be distributed starting this month.

The FDA issued a final guidance, which provides voluntary short-term sodium reduction targets for food manufacturers, chain restaurants and foodservice operators for 163 categories of processed, packaged and prepared foods. 

In facilities that handle or produce sugar, fines can accumulate in a number of areas such as production floors; along conveyor belts and on machinery; in hot rotary dryers used to dry sugar; in steel storage and conditioning silos; in dust collectors; and on beams, rafters, light fixtures and other horizonal surfaces.

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) announced that lamb exporters in the UK will have access to the American market—worth an estimated $48.9 million in the first five years of trade—as we head into the new year.

A new poll reveals that among U.S. cannabis consumers in states with legal sales, 91% plan to consume cannabis as part of holiday celebrations in 2021 and 76% plan to give cannabis or related products as gifts.