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1. PS Seasoning And Pro Smoker Open New Customer Innovation Center Amid Ongoing Expansion 6/12/2025

   PS Seasoning and Pro Smoker, global leaders in flavor development and equipment solutions, today announced the opening of a new Customer Innovation Center.

2. Sungrow's C&I BESS PowerStack Powers The Netherlands' Poultry Farm 6/10/2025

   Sungrow, the global leading PV inverter and energy storage system provider, supplied its commercial and industrial (C&I) BESS PowerStack to the Poultry Farm Quirijnen in Lage Mierde, the Netherlands, to optimize energy costs and maximize the value of the existing solar installation.

3. MSU Researcher Leads Innovative Effort To Protect Lake Whitefish Using Genetic Markers 6/9/2025

   Earlier this year, Jason Smith, a fisheries biologist with the Bay Mills Indian Community in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, spoke with Interlochen Public Radio (IPR) about an ominous trend threatening one of the Great Lakes’ most foundational and key fish species: lake whitefish.

4. Camelina Breakthrough Could Transform Natural Astaxanthin Production 6/5/2025

   In a major step forward for sustainable pigment production, scientists have successfully engineered the oilseed crop Camelina sativa to produce high levels of astaxanthin — a valuable red antioxidant used to colour farmed salmon and shrimp — using plant-derived genes rather than bacterial pathways.

5. Cargill To Invest $90M In Fort Morgan, Colo. Beef Plant 6/5/2025

   Cargill announced today it is investing nearly $90 million in automation and new technologies at its Fort Morgan, Colo. beef plant as part of its Factory of the Future initiative.

6. Innovative Dashboard To Help Producers Tackle Livestock GHG Emissions And Improve Profitability 6/3/2025

   A groundbreaking new project is set to support livestock producers to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and improve profitability, with the development of a dashboard to display estimates of emissions, primarily from methane, and emissions intensity of growing cattle.

7. The Smart Filleting Choice For Smaller Processors 6/3/2025

   It’s more than 20 years since the Filleting Machine CT 2630 changed filleting forever. How one machine solves your biggest filleting challenges by making more from salmon and trout.

8. From Data To Decisions: Ever.Ag Empowers Pork Producers 6/2/2025
9. OSU Helps Launch Meat Cutting Programs In The Pacific Northwest 5/29/2025

   Like many agricultural sectors, the meat processing industry in Oregon has struggled to recruit and retain entry-level employees, especially in smaller operations.

10. Secretary Rollins Increases Funding To Reimburse States For Food Safety Inspections 5/27/2025

    U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced today she will exercise the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) authority to provide a much-needed funding increase of $14.5M in reimbursements to states for meat and poultry inspection programs.