NEWS 108 FEED & ADDITIVE MAGAZINE March 2025 One of the leading global food companies, JBS USA announced $200 million in investments at its Cactus, Texas, and Greeley, Colorado, beef production facilities. The projects include a new, state-of-theart fabrication floor and a new, expanded ground beef room in Cactus and a new distribution center in Greeley. According to the company’s announcement, these investments will provide improved efficiencies at the facilities and the potential for increased production capacity in the future, creating opportunities for cattle producers, consumers, JBS team members and the broader rural communities where the plants are located. The projects will begin construction in 2025. “We believe now is the time to invest in the United States, and we are excited about what the future holds,” said Wesley Batista Filho, CEO of JBS USA. “Today’s announcement demonstrates our commitment to the U.S. beef industry and the American farmer and rancher. At JBS, we prioritize ongoing investments in our facilities to ensure our company and the rural areas where we live and work are positioned for success now and in the future.” Located in the panhandle of Texas, the Cactus facility employees more than 3,700 team members and partners with multiple cattle producers, paying $2.9 billion for livestock each year, the company points out. Read more>> JBS invests $200 million in US beef production Increasing production of pulse crops and reducing the amount of imported soya bean meal fed to livestock, could drastically reduce the UK's agricultural carbon footprint, bringing a raft of other social and environmental benefits too. New data presented at ‘From Soya to Sustainability’ in Peterborough, England on 22 January 2025 showed 3.4Mt of CO2 equivalent could be saved which would cut the agricultural industry’s footprint by 7%. The revised figures, from a study by Farm Carbon Toolkit, suggest the potential to cut carbon emissions through better use of home-grown pulses is more than 2.5 times previous estimates. The reduction can be achieved by increasing pulse production to 20% of the current total area and replacing 50% of the imported soya bean meal currently being fed to livestock, explained John McArthur, Managing Director of McArthur BDC. Showing what can be achieved by this shift are the twin aims of the NCS Project – a four-year, £5.9 million project funded by DEFRA's Farming Futures R&D Fund. “That saving is driven by four main factors – fuel use, synthetic nitrogen fertiliser use, both directly and indirectly, and swapping imported soya bean meal to UK pulses,” McArthur said. The 17 partner organisations in the project had initially set out to show its twin aims would achieve a net target carbon reduction of 1.5Mt. But data processed since the project began in April 2023 have revealed the potential gains that can be made from a move away from imported soya to UK grown beans are far greater than previously estimated. Read more>> Soya swap could cut agriculture’s carbon footprint
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