Robin McDowell

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

Today in Manufacturing Podcast

July 31, 2025

A price for beef is displayed at a grocery store in Mount Prospect, Ill., July 17, 2025.

Expanding Cattle Herds Amid Record Beef Prices Isn't so Simple

July 31, 2025

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Private Equity Owner of Bolthouse Farms to Acquire Kombucha Brand Health-Ade

July 30, 2025

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Harris Teeter Stores Add Indoor Farming Company’s Greens

July 30, 2025

Streamline, Save, and Scale with Material Transfer's Custom Solutions

Streamline, Save, and Scale with Material Transfer's Custom Solutions

Streamline your process, enhance safety, cut costs, and scale seamlessly with Material Transfer's custom solutions.

August 1, 2025

Crystal Adams inspects eggs at Hickman's Family Farm, Tonopah, Ariz., March 14, 2024.

What Happens When Prisoners in Dangerous Jobs Get Hurt?

Some are put to work on farms or in processing plants with little or no training.

May 16, 2024

A child carries palm kernels collected from the ground across a creek at a palm oil plantation in Sumatra, Indonesia, Monday, Nov. 13, 2017. Child labor has long been a dark stain on the $65 billion global palm oil industry. Though often denied or minimized as kids simply helping their families on weekends or after school, it has been identified as a problem by human rights groups, the United Nations and the U.S. government.

Girl Scout Cookie Palm Oil Linked to Child Labor

Palm oil is contained in roughly half the products on supermarket shelves and in almost three out of every four cosmetic brands.

January 4, 2021