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Get Rid of Flies for Good

Get Rid of Flies for Good

September 27, 2023

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Kellogg Brand Announces Plant-Based 'Steakhouse' Burger

September 26, 2023

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Organic Squash Recalled Over E. Coli Concerns

September 26, 2023

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10 Reasons Food Manufacturers Can Benefit from X-ray Inspection

September 25, 2023

Help Your Team Leave Pests at the Door

Help Your Team Leave Pests at the Door

Ever wonder how to get your staff to care about pest control? You can't cover your facility's square footage all by yourself. Follow these best practices to create a team-based approach that keeps pests out.

September 22, 2023

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Embroiled Hog Dealer Fires Iowa Staffers Over Buying Violations

Lynch Livestock has twice been sanctioned for defrauding pork producers out of thousands of dollars.

July 29, 2021

In this February 2021 photo provided by Matt Johnson is animal rights activist Johnson, a researcher with the group Direct Action Everywhere. Johnson, a leading foe of the livestock industry, has been charged with trespassing at a pig facility in Iowa, the first case brought under the state's latest so-called 'ag-gag' law.

Activist Charged Under New Food Trespassing Law

It's the first case brought under Iowa’s 'ag-gag' law, aimed at protecting farming operations from intruders.

April 8, 2021

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Activist Cleared of Charges Over Exposing Iowa Hog Deaths

The man helped secretly record a Tyson Foods' supplier farm using heat to kill thousands of hogs last year.

January 29, 2021

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Iowa Beef Plant Fined Just $957 After 300 Workers Tested Positive for Virus

The fine comes after 40 percent of the plant's 850 workers contracted COVID-19.

September 25, 2020

In this Dec. 20, 2017 file photo, is the Seaboard Triumph Foods pork processing plant in Sioux City, Iowa.

MN Supplier Biggest Winner in IA Hog Disposal Program

Christensen Farms, one of the nation's largest family-owned pork producers, 72 percent of the program's payouts to date.

July 31, 2020

Workers wait in line to enter the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, IN on May 7.

IA Congressman Wants Answers About Plant Outbreak

US Rep. Dave Loebsack's letter to Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds requests answers over the state's response to a virus outbreak at a Tyson plant there.

July 27, 2020

A Google Maps street view of Tyson Foods' pork processing plant in Columbus Junction, IA.

Outbreak at IA Tyson Plant Was Worse Than State Reported

Records show Tyson officials told state safety regulators 522 plant employees were infected, compared to 221 cases the Iowa Health Department announced.

July 22, 2020

In this May 1 photo, a sign sits in front of the Tyson Foods plant in Waterloo, IA. Civil rights attorney Tom Frerichs filed a lawsuit on Thursday, June 25 behalf of the estates of three Tyson Foods workers at its pork processing plant in Waterloo who died after contracting coronavirus.

Tyson Sued by Families of 3 Deceased Iowa Workers

The suit says the company knowingly put employees at risk and lied to keep them on the job.

June 26, 2020

A Tyson Fresh Meats plant stands in Waterloo, Iowa, date not known. On Friday, April 17, 2020, more than a dozen Iowa elected officials asked Tyson to close the pork processing plant because of the spread of the coronavirus among its workforce of nearly 3,000 people.

Tyson Closes Its Largest Pork Plant

Despite 180 worker infections, Tyson had kept the plant open.

April 22, 2020

In this Saturday, April 18, 2020, photo, medical workers administer drive-up COVID-19 tests outside the Sanford Worthington Clinic in Worthington, Minn. The state has sent a team to ensure safe conditions in the southwestern Minnesota city, where multiple people have tested positive at a meatpacking plant.

Governors Push to Reopen Meat Plants

Despite massive numbers of infections in meat-packing, states are anxious to reopen affected plants.

April 20, 2020

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Leader of Organic Scheme Commits Suicide

He led what prosecutors dubbed the "field of schemes" fraud.

August 20, 2019

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Farmers Sentenced in Organic Fraud Case

Prosecutors say the farmers are responsible for a seven-year scheme that fooled thousands.

August 16, 2019

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Farmer Charged in $140M Fraud Scheme

Industry watchdogs have called the scale of the fraud "jaw-dropping" and probably the largest ever documented involving U.S. farmers.

December 20, 2018

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Jail for Egg Execs in Salmonella Case

The DeCosters were aware of unsanitary conditions at their Iowa egg farms but failed to improve them before an outbreak sickened up to 56,000 people.

July 7, 2016