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The USPOULTRY Foundation recently awarded a $4,620student recruiting grant to Iowa State University. The grant was made possible in part by an endowing Foundation gift from West Liberty Foods and was presented by Paul Hill, chairman of West Liberty...
Sanderson Farms Inc. turned a profit for the latest quarter, as it said demand for chicken products at grocery stores remained strong this year. The Laurel, Miss.-based poultry company on Thursday posted a profit of $27.9 million, or $1.26 a...
The USPOULTRY Foundation recently awarded a $1,670student recruiting grant to the North Carolina A&T State University. The grant was made possible in part by an endowing Foundation gift from the Stanley & Dorothy Frank Family Foundation. The grantwill be used...
The U.S. Roundtable for Sustainable Poultry & Eggs(US-RSPE)has elected Lankford Ruffin, director of environmental affairs and sustainability at Butterball,to chair of the board of directors for 2021. Ruffin replaces Leigh Ann Johnston, director of sustainability at Tyson Foods,who will...
Seven terminated after investigation into claims that managers wagered on infections among employees, and pressured workers to stay on the job Tyson Foods Inc. TSN -4.41% said it fired seven managers of an Iowa meatpacking plant following the...
The poultry industry is eager to learn as more than 3,000 people joined the weekly Cobb Tech Talks webinar series this year. Presented by the elite Cobb technical team, the series started in late July and covered a range...
Japan’s worst bird flu outbreak on record spread to new farms this week and has been found in around a quarter of the country’s 47 prefectures, with officials ordering more cullings. About 32,000 birds will be slaughtered and buried in...
1.4+ Million Farm Animals Died in Barn Fires in 2020                                                                                  Majority of victims were cage-free hens More than 1.4 million farm animals, including nearly 1.3 million cage-free hens, have perished in potentially preventable barn fires so far this year, according...
Source: Global News A food expert says farmers may need to euthanize large numbers of chickens as a result of a decision to close Nova Scotia’s only federally inspected poultry processing plant for 14-days due to a COVID-19 outbreak. Sylvain Charlebois...
An Indiana poultry company made a major contribution to Gleaners Food Bank ahead of the holidays. Miller Poultry out of Orland, Indiana donated 13,000 pounds of food. “This is Indiana grown, going to Indiana families,” said Kroger spokesperson Eric Halvorson. “It...
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