David Pitt

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

May 30, 2023

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Ivan Menezes, Former Diageo Chief Executive, Dies at 63

June 7, 2023

Brewery Founders to Buy Their Company Back from Anheuser-Busch

June 7, 2023

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How Heineken Is Building an Insights Ecosystem

June 6, 2023

In this April photo, Tyson Foods workers wear protective masks and stand between plastic dividers at the company's Camilla, Georgia poultry processing plant.

USDA Sued Over Poultry Production Speeds

Unions say the USDA's policy of allowing companies to slaughter birds faster endangers workers and makes it harder to protect against COVID-19.

July 28, 2020

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Healthy Pigs Killed Amid Meat Backlog

It’s a result of colliding forces as plants that normally process up to 20,000 hogs a day are closing because of ill workers.

May 1, 2020

This undated photo shows a Tyson Fresh Meats plant in Waterloo, IA. On Friday, April 17, 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.

Officials Ask Tyson to Close Pork Plant

The Iowa pork processing plant employs nearly 3,000 workers.

April 20, 2020

In this Aug. 10, 2015, file photo, turkeys stand in a barn on turkey farm near Manson, IA. The nation's first case of highly pathogenic bird flu since 2017 has been found in a South Carolina turkey operation, leading to the killing of more than 30,000 birds.

Industry Scrambles to Stop Fatal Bird Flu

The industry was devastated by a large outbreak in 2015 that led to the killing of millions of chickens and turkeys.

April 10, 2020

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Video Shows Suffering at IA Lawmaker's Pig Farm

An animal welfare group accessed a hog farm last spring owned by an Iowa senator and recorded disturbing conditions on video and in photos.

January 24, 2020

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Slaughter Rules Mean More Safety Tasks

Some are slamming new regulations that place responsibilities once held by federal inspectors in the hands of meat company employees.

September 18, 2019

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Trump Escapes Blame for Ethanol Policy

Corn production has nearly doubled in the past 30 years, and without an ever-larger ethanol market farmers fear demand could plunge.

July 15, 2019

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Vegetable Seed Developer Wins World Food Prize

His name is Groot. He's a guardian of high-quality seeds for tropical environments.

June 10, 2019

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Law on Undercover Workers Struck Down

The Iowa law made it illegal to get a job at a livestock farm to conduct an animal cruelty undercover investigation.

January 14, 2019

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Organic Farmers Vow to Compete

The dairy industry, like much of U.S. farming, has trended toward fewer but larger farms since the 1980s.

August 9, 2018

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Trade, Immigration, Biofuel Policies Hit Farmers

Many farmers are more worried than ever about their ability to continue eking out an existence in agriculture.

July 17, 2018

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Salmonella in Chicken Salad Kills 1

Out of the 265 illnesses, 94 people were hospitalized.

April 11, 2018

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Man Wins Suit Over 'Stinky' Plant

He won a free-speech lawsuit after this hometown threatened him for saying it smelled of "rancid dog food."

March 30, 2018

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Trade Dispute Draws Ire of Farmers

Overall, the nation's farmers shipped nearly $20 billion of goods to China in 2017.

March 26, 2018

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New Meat Industry Welfare Rules Dropped

The Trump administration has repeatedly delayed implementing the rule and had signaled that it might never move forward with it.

March 13, 2018