Brady Stewart worked for Smithfield since 2017.

The strategy will feature convenient, portable products.

The agency said the company’s salami could be contaminated by Salmonella.

The two companies will develop products using Rhiza mycoprotein.

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.