Environment

We are inspired to do our part in making the world a better place. That's why we place great emphasis on the environment when producing products for customers and consumers around the world. To minimize our environmental impact, we’ve set goals to reduce our nonrenewable energy use, water use, solid waste sent to landfills and greenhouse gas emissions by 10 percent by 2020. In addition, we also aim to reduce our product packaging by 25 million pounds by 2020.

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Energy

Ørsted Signs Long-Term Power Purchase Agreements with Target and Hormel Foods Corporation
On average, the project will contribute USD 4 million per year in local taxes and landowner payments to the community, and it will employ 300 construction workers at its peak.

Environment

Hormel Foods Continues to Make a Difference Through its Environmental Stewardship Efforts
In 2019, Hormel Foods not only made a difference in the countless lives of people throughout the world through our hunger relief efforts, we also made significant progress with our environmental stewardship efforts.

Environment

Hormel Foods Celebrates Completion of Solar Array at Its Swiss American Sausage Company Facility in California

Environment

The Top 6 Companies That Are Helping Us Save the Bees

Energy

Hormel Foods to Become Powered by Nearly 50 Percent Renewable Energy
The new wind farm will be located near Milligan, Nebraska. Construction is expected to be completed in 2020. The farm will be capable of 74 MW of power and an estimated 349,000 MWh of electricity each year. Hormel Foods partnered with Kinect Energy Group to assess the project and negotiate the agreement. In addition to this agreement, Hormel Foods also supports the renewable energy markets by subscribing to community solar gardens at five manufacturing locations, including a co-sponsorship with Westar Energy for its first community solar garden near Wichita, Kan., where the company manufactures most of its Hormel® Natural Choice® bacon products.

Responsible Production & Consumption

Farmers Focus on Maximizing Soil Health
Farmers in the Cedar River Watershed gathered last week and learned from local experts how maximizing soil health can economically benefit their operations while protecting water quality. The event was a free field day organized by a new public-private-nonprofit partnership.

The Cedar River Watershed Partnership organized the event for dozens of farmers in the watershed and surrounding region at the Krell farm near Blooming Prairie, the upper part of the Cedar River Watershed.

Aimed at increasing farmers’ knowledge of soil health practices, particularly tillage and cover crops, the field day focused on the costs and benefits of adopting different land-management practices that improve the soil, water and economic health of farms.

Environment

Preserving Critical Resources
This Earth Day, we asked Coulter Wood, a senior staff engineer at Hormel Foods who is responsible for the company’s energy management, to share some of his favorite tips — things people can do in their own lives to help preserve the Earth’s resources. Check out his thoughts and learn more about Coulter and his role at the company below!

Environment

What’s the Buzz?
Bees are responsible for one of every three bites of food we eat, including almonds and honey – two of our favorite forms of delicious. But with honeybees dying off at a rate of 30 percent per year, we can’t afford to sit by idly. That’s why Justin’s is “Nuts for Bees.”

Energy

Hormel Sponsors Solar Project in Kansas
Solar power is one of the cleanest forms of energy available, and many companies are embracing it as a central part of their strategy to reduce emissions and reach clean energy goals.

Natural food company Hormel Natural Choice is tapping the power of the sun through a partnership with a community project headed by Westar Energy, just 50 miles from its Dold Foods plant in Wichita, Kansas.

Energy

Going Solar
When Nick Schweitzer, senior brand manager at Hormel Foods, learned about a community solar garden that was going to be constructed near the plant where Hormel® Natural Choice® uncured bacon products are produced, he was all ears.

The company’s environmental sustainability team was all ears as well since they had set a goal to reduce non-renewable energy use by 10 percent by 2020.

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