When students walk into Anna Dilger’s classroom, they can expect play dough, cartoons and dancing. But her students aren’t kindergartners; they’re college students. And they’re learning from one of the best.

Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. will assemble a team of company and third-party experts to develop an infectious disease preparedness plan that the company will implement at all of its processing facilities nationwide.

Over 400 employees of Seaboard Triumph Foods will receive $331,807 in back wages due to violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Data from the past five years shows that finding hourly/non-exempt staff is notoriously challenging. AgCareers.com’s recent Agribusiness HR Review illustrates this difficulty only intensified in 2021.

Iowa’s second ‘ag-gag’ law, creating criminal charges for those who gain access to an agricultural facility using deception to cause physical or economic harm, has been ruled unconstitutional by a federal judge.

New research has concluded that higher wages, among other benefits, are necessary to attract workers to meatpacking jobs.