Foster Farms is donating an additional 400,000 servings of poultry to community hunger relief organizations throughout California to help families impacted economically by COVID-19. Last week, the family-owned company announced a donation of two million servings of protein to...
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue today announced the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program (CFAP). This new U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) program will take several actions to assist farmers, ranchers, and consumers in response to the COVID-19 national emergency....
Because now is the time for Canadians to pull together
At this critical time, Canada's turkey farmers and processors are coming together to launch The Wishbone Project.
"The Wishbone Project is how Canada's turkey sector, farmers and processors are giving back...
For decades, Canadians have relied on our more than 1,100 egg farmers and farm families in all provinces and in the Northwest Territories to produce a steady supply of high-quality eggs. Today that reliability has never been more necessary....
Coronavirus has stricken workers at nearly half of Wayne Farms' 11 chicken processing plants and two of its 17 feed mills and hatcheries in the southeastern U.S., the poultry producer confirmed on Wednesday.
However, the Continental Grain Co. subsidiary declined...
Lincoln Premium Poultry announced their first case of COVID-19 today.
“The employee worked in what we refer to as the ‘2nd processing’ part of the building and was on 2nd shift, which runs in the evening and has fewer employees...
The USPOULTRY Foundation awarded a $33,309student recruiting grant to the University of Arkansas Department of Poultry Science. The grant was made possible in part from an endowing Foundation gift from the Monty and Margot Henderson Student Recruiting Fund.
The University...
Royal DSM, a purpose-led global science-based company in Nutrition, Health and Sustainable Living, has announced a mutually beneficial agreement between its DSM Animal Nutrition and Health business group and North Carolina State University (NC State). The research partnership, which...
The following letter is being circulated on Facebook. Lancaster Farming is awaiting comment from Allen Harim:
Dear Growers,
COVID-19 continues to be a challenge for all of us in the poultry industry. Over the last two weeks, Allen Harim’s plant attendance...
NCC on Friday sent a letter to U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue requesting relief for family farmers due to potential supply chain effects related to the COVID-19 outbreak.
“As a result of reduced workforce at processing plants, foodservice demand...