The funding will help build a new facility for meat processing education.

The company renovated a former textile mill.

USDA programs aim to build up local and regional meat and poultry processing capacity.

Great American Foods has been operating out of Newark, NJ, since 1974.

Rising input costs, labor challenges, animal disease are among looming headwinds.

The plaintiffs allege large commercial processors are illegally benefiting from federal loans.

The company tested the trucks with a 44,000-lb food donation to Gleaners Community Food Bank.

The company makes frozen burritos and breakfast sandwiches.

The insect protein maker’s project is expected to begin in late 2023.

The university is expected to open its new facility next fall.