Meat Plant Workers Being Denied Workers’ Compensation for COVID-19: Reuters September 29, 2020 By Tom Hals and Tom Polansek Saul Sanchez died in April, one of six workers with fatal COVID-19 infections at meatpacker JBS USA’s slaughterhouse in Greeley,...
OSHA Cites Smithfield Foods For Lax Coronavirus Safety for Meat Plant Workers September 11, 2020 By Tom Polansek and P.J. Huffstutter The U.S. Labor Department said on Thursday it cited Smithfield Foods for failing to protect employees from the coronavirus, making...
Black Farmers Sue to Force Roundup Weedkiller Ban or Product Warnings August 28, 2020 By Tom Polansek A group of Black U.S. farmers filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday, seeking to force Bayer AG to either stop...
Derecho Storm Leveled Soybean and Corn Fields, Storage Tanks Across Midwest August 16, 2020 By Tom Polansek A storm packing hurricane-force winds last Monday impacted 37.7 million acres of farmland across the Midwest, including 14 million in...
Claiming Plaintiff Farmer Not Ruined, Bayer Says Herbicide Verdict Should Be Tossed July 30, 2020 By Tom Polansek Bayer AG contended in court papers that a jury verdict in favor of a Missouri peach farmer was based on...
Absenteeism at Meatpacking Plants Tied to Workplace Safety Concerns June 15, 2020 By Tom Polansek and Andy Sullivan Smithfield Foods Inc. is missing about a third of its employees at a South Dakota pork plant because they are...
Court Rebuffs EPA, Blocks U.S. Sale of Dicamba-Based Herbicide by Bayer, Rivals June 4, 2020 By Sabahatjahan Contractor, Ludwig Burger and Tom Polansek A U.S. appeals court has blocked Bayer AG from selling an agricultural weed killer in the United States, the latest...
Tyson Foods to Close Iowa Meat Plant as More Workers Catch COVID-19 May 28, 2020 By Tom Polansek Tyson Foods Inc. said on Thursday it will temporarily close an Iowa pork plant due to the coronavirus pandemic, a...
Coronavirus Cases Surge in Reopened Colorado Beef Plant, Worker Dies May 1, 2020 By Tom Polansek COVID-19 cases at a JBS meatpacking plant in Colorado have more than doubled “in a number of days” and a...
Unions Push Back on Trump Plan to Order Meat Processing Plants to Stay Open April 29, 2020 By Jeff Mason and Tom Polansek President Donald Trump on Tuesday ordered meat-processing plants to stay open to protect the food supply in the United States,...