Austin, MN (KROC News) - Hormel Foods Tuesday announced 2016 was its 8th straight year of record earnings. Wednesday morning, hundreds of Hormel employees were rewarded with their annual profit-sharing checks.
WILLMAR, Minn. (AP) — The Department of Labor says Jennie-O Turkey Store Inc. has agreed to hire 53 women and pay nearly $492,000 in back wages to 339 female applicants who were denied entry-level jobs at its turkey processing facility in Willmar.
St. Paul, MN (KROC-AM News) - After a lull that lasted about a week and a half, state officials announced Tuesday they had identified six new presumptive bird flu outbreaks in commercial flocks at farms in southern Minnesota.
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota officials have confirmed four more cases of a bird flu strain that's cost the state's turkey producers over 1.6 million birds.