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The Minnesota Turkey Growers Association has been working for months with the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA) to secure financial assistance to Minnesota turkey farmers impacted by the COVID pandemic. This week, MDA unveiled...
Tyson Foods expects to create 230 more jobs and invest $87.6 million in an expansion in Tennessee.
The state Department of Community and Economic Development says the food processing giant expects the new jobs at the Union City plant by...
In a recent announcement, KFC unveiled its newest addition to the menu: the Chizza, a tantalizing blend of fried chicken and pizza flavors that promises to delight taste buds.
This limited-time offering features two crispy extra crispy fried chicken filets...
Greg Hinton, Rose Acre Farms,Seymour, Indiana,was elected for a second term as chairman of the board of directors of U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY) during a recent board of directors meeting, held in Atlanta.Due to the pandemic, the...
Officials have confirmed that nearly 1 million chickens on a Minnesota egg farm will be culled to prevent the spread of highly contagious bird flu. The U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that the virus was found at a farm...
“The World Is Addicted to Chicken. So Is the Bird Flu Virus,” by Megan Durisin and Elizabeth Elkin. Bloomberg News (December 18, 2022).
Bloomberg writers Megan Durisin and Elizabeth Elkin reported earlier this week that, “The bird flu outbreak ravaging...
They should’ve counted their chickens.
At least 15 crates of live chickens were found in the streets of Brooklyn early Monday after falling off a poultry truck that then took flight, threatening fowl traffic delays.
The crates were bizarrely found blocking...
The Biden administration is awarding an additional $9.6 million in grants and loans to expand meat processing across the country, it announced on Thursday as the government tries to diversify the industry beyond four companies that have long dominated...
American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on USDA's announcement to provide grant funding to expand meat and poultry processing facilities.
"AFBF appreciates USDA's efforts to increase competition in America's beef and poultry processing systems. Families continue to...
In a speech at Columbia University, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack laid out a vision of nutrition security and the Agriculture Department’s actions to promote the concept. Vilsack contrasted nutrition security to food security, which focuses on the quantity...