Osprey Biotechnics, a developer of microbial products for environmental, industrial and agricultural applications, has temporarily pivoted some operations in its Sarasota, Florida, facility for a “greater good” effort — manufacturing hand sanitizer and providing donations to local institutions, frontline...
A federal grand jury in the U.S. District Court in Denver, Colorado, returned an indictment against four executives for their role in a conspiracy to fix prices and rig bids for broiler chickens, the Department of Justice announced.
"Particularly in...
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Tyson Foods, Inc. (NYSE:TSN) announced today the results of facility-wide testing for COVID-19...
Elkmont, Alabama, is a small community, just miles from the Tennessee border. With a population of only 434, it is home to internationally awarded artisanal goat cheese maker Belle Chevre, as well as multiple operations of global poultry breeding...
o share and demonstrate the extensive incremental safety measures Perdue Farms has implemented to protect associates from COVID-19 beginning in early March, the company hosted the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for meetings and tours of Perdue’s poultry...
While many Americans fired up their grills this Memorial Day weekend, some may have found limits on meat purchases, near-empty meat cases or no fresh meat at all at their local grocery stores. At the same time, they see...
Cutting their spring and summer quotas means farmers can give processing plants some more breathing room.
The Canadian chicken industry cut output for May and June by roughly 12 per cent nationally to manage the drop in demand for chicken...
As consumers prepared for more at-home meals due to COVID-19, retail demand for many products—particularly eggs—increased sharply in March.
This surge in grocery store demand, coupled with supply constraints, caused wholesale egg prices to more than triple in March, reaching...
Source: NewsObserver.com
Farmers statewide have started euthanizing 1.5 million chickens because of coronavirus-related slowdowns in the meat processing plants, a top agriculture official said Friday.
It is the first time during the COVID-19 pandemic that North Carolina farmers have had to...
Source: USDA news release
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The Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook for May 2020 analyzes economic impacts on animal product markets of month-to-month changes in USDA's World Agricultural Supply and Use Estimates Report.