The Columbus (Neb.) Telegram reported that Cargill Value Added Meats, Wichita, Kan., will purchase Lopez Foods' beef processing plant in Columbus, Neb.
Smithfield Foods Inc., Smithfield, Va., said it completed its previously announced sale of Smithfield Beef, its beef processing and cattle feeding operation, to Brazilian meat giant JBS S.A.
Keystone Foods LLC, West Conshohocken, Pa., expects to double frozen chicken and beef processing once it relocates from a 75,000-sq.-ft. plant in Gadsden, Ala., to a larger 184,000-sq.-ft. facility.