by - February 5, 2025 4:51 pm
More than 10% of jobs in the Northwest Arkansas animal processing sector will be lost when Cargill’s Springdale plant closes in August. With few similar job openings in Northwest Arkansas,…
by - January 28, 2025 10:45 am
Cargill has confirmed it plans to close its turkey processing facility in Springdale. More than 1,000 employees and more than 100 farmers who raise turkeys for the company are being…
by - July 1, 2015 5:01 pm
Global meat giant JBS, the parent of Pilgrim’s Pride Chicken, announced plans to buy Cargill’s U.S. pork business for $1.45 billion, subject to regulatory review and approval. The deal includes…
by - July 1, 2015 9:39 am
Cargill appointed John Niemann as president of the company’s Turkey & Cooked Meats unit and Chris Roberts will take over its newly formed Value Added Protein unit. The management changes…
by - June 22, 2015 1:53 pm
• Cargill teams up Pwc on sustainability efforts Cargill is linking up with PricewaterhouseCoopers to improve their supply chains and align them with sustainability goals. As a supplier to Wal-Mart…
by - March 11, 2015 3:29 pm
The H5N2 “bird flu” strain has now been found in a Butterball turkey farm in Boone County. It’s been 11 years since the highly pathogenic strain of Avian Influenza has…
by - September 3, 2014 8:24 am
• Cargill acquires chocolate business Cargill has purchased Archer Daniels Midland Company's global chocolate business for $440 million. The deal is said to be a good fit with Cargill's existing…
by - July 17, 2014 2:39 pm
Cargill Meat Solutions said its Honeysuckle White and Shady Brook Farms are the first major turkey brands to remove growth-promoting antibiotics from all turkeys across the independent farms they work…
by - June 16, 2014 3:58 pm
A local Cargill facility is celebrating a major safety milestone this week in its turkey feed mill in Springdale. The feed mill opened in 1984 and 30 years later the…
by - May 15, 2014 12:54 pm
• Cargill to reduce meatpacker jobs Tightening cattle supplies is prompting Cargill Meat Solutions to downsize the workforce at its Dodge City, Kansas plant, according to Cargill spokesman Mark Klein. The…
by - February 11, 2014 8:37 pm
• Cargill to acquire Pet Carousel Cargill plans to acquire Pet Carousel, a Sanger, Calif.-based manufacturer of private label dog treats. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Cargill believes…
by - February 10, 2014 12:30 pm
• Heinz to repay South Carolina incentives after plant closure H.J. Heniz Co. agreed to repay about $1.5 million it received from Florence County, S.C., for economic incentives related to…
by - January 23, 2014 12:18 am
Cargill Meat Solutions has settled hiring discrimination allegations in three of its plants, including the turkey slaughter and processing facility in Springdale. The allegations were made by Department of Labor’s…
by - November 12, 2013 9:05 am
For the 2013 holiday season, Wichita-based Cargill Value Added Meats which operates Cargill’s U.S. turkey business, has made a commitment to donate more than 11,000 turkeys to food banks, the…
by - September 12, 2013 10:28 pm
In the five years through 2013, revenue for China’s poultry farming industry has grown at an average annualized rate of 7.7% to $75.3 billion and two U.S. meat giants are…
by - April 10, 2013 12:44 pm
While beef packers like Tyson Foods and Cargill were spared any major setbacks from meat inspector lay-offs following the federal sequestration budget cuts, they did lose a forecasting tool when…
by - December 7, 2012 11:20 am
The U.S. Department of Agriculture said it will buy up to $35 million of turkey products for federal food nutrition assistance programs, including food banks in an effort to help…
by - December 4, 2012 1:16 pm
SPRINGDALE – Cargill said it will give 22,000 pounds or nearly 10 tons of turkey to the Northwest Arkansas Food Bank on Dec. 14 to help hundreds of local families…
by - November 14, 2012 12:27 pm
SPRINGDALE – Cargill is donating $50,000 between now and the end 2013 to the Illinois River Watershed Partnership for development of its 30-acre Watershed Sanctuary at Cave Springs. This will…
by - November 2, 2012 3:31 pm
Sergio Rial, chief financial officer at Cargill, will resign his position with the company at the end of November for personal reasons, Cargill announced Nov. 2. Rial plans to return…
