Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE: TSN) today announced plans to build new production facilities in China and Thailand, and expand its facility in the Netherlands. The latest expansions, adding over 100,000 metric tons of fully cooked poultry capacity, build on...
A company in eastern Texas that sells about 200,000 smoked turkeys every holiday season was forced to shut down after a fire and at least two explosions destroyed part of the facility.
Greenberg Smoked Turkey Inc. in Tyler, Texas, will...
The incidence of occupational injuries and illnesses within the poultry sector’s slaughter and processing workforce has fallen below all manufacturing for the first time since the Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) began recording injuries and illnesses...
Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced today that more than 200 local meat and poultry processors have been awarded Meat Processing and Expansion grants through the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship. These small businesses can...
Beijing banned all purchases of American poultry in 2015 in response to an outbreak of bird flu in the US
China expected to return to being America’s No 1 export market in 2021, president of US industry group...
Type H5N8 bird flu has been confirmed in another poultry farm in north Germany, German authorities said on Monday.
The case was found on a small chicken farm in the Kreis Segeberg area the northern state of Schweswig-Holstein, the Segeberg...
The AGCO Agriculture Foundation (AAF), a private foundation based in Liechtenstein committed to food security and sustainable agricultural development, today announced a new partnership with Self Help Africa (SHA) to implement a sustainable poultry production project that will contribute...
Family-owned company increases number of turkeys donated by close to 60 percent over last year amid surging demand
This week, family-owned Foster Farms is stepping up its COVID-19 hunger relief efforts, increasing its number of donated Thanksgiving turkeys by close...
US Poultry and the US Poultry Foundation have approved $350,000 for five new research grants at four institutions through the comprehensive research programme. The research funding was approved by the boards of directors of both organisations, based on recommendations...
Fifty workers have tested positive for Covid-19 at a poultry factory in Lincolnshire.
Moy Park in Anwick, near Sleaford, which employs 2,400 people, said those affected were now self-isolating on full pay.
The firm said it was working closely with Public...