Source: Bloomberg
The Justice Department’s defeat in its lawsuit against chicken-industry executives adds to a string of antitrust losses that casts a shadow on its scrutiny of the meat industry and broader enforcement goals.
Five former and current executives from Pilgrim’s...
Source: Lancaster Farming
Pennsylvania’s poultry industry will receive $25 million in state funding to recover from avian influenza, and Ag Secretary Russell Redding can’t wait to get the aid flowing.
“We feel some sense of urgency now to get this done,”...
If You Were Paid to Provide Broiler Grow-Out Services at Any Time Between January 27, 2013 and December 31, 2019, A Class Action Settlement Totaling $15,500,000 May Affect Your Legal Rights.
A federal court authorized this notice. This is not...
In 2020, most of the values of cotton (62 percent), dairy (73 percent), and specialty crops (57 percent) were produced on large-scale family farms. USDA defines a family farm as one in which the principal operator and related family...
Officials with a food processing plant, George’s Prepared Foods, announced they were closing their Caryville location, leaving nearly 200 people jobless.
Campbell County Mayor E.L. Morton told WVLT News that he was trying to keep the plant open.
“I have contacted...
Case Farms, a fully integrated poultry farming and processing group, has awarded more than $34,000 in scholarships this year to 12 children of Case Farms’ employeesthrough the J. Leroy Cook Memorial Scholarship Program. To date, Case Farms has awarded...
Source: Iowa Department of Agriculture & Land Stewardship
DES MOINES, Iowa
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship today announced that the March 23 order cancelling all live bird exhibitions at fairs and other gatherings of birds due to highly...
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced more support, resources, and new rules that will strengthen the American food supply chain, promote fair and competitive agricultural markets, prevent abuse of farmers by poultry processors and make...
American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall commented today on USDA's proposed poultry marketing disclosure requirements and the advanced notice of proposed rulemaking under the Packers and Stockyards Act.
"AFBF appreciates USDA working to create more transparency in the poultry...
Researchers in the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition at Iowa State University have discovered an innovative approach to fight bacteria and their antimicrobial resistance in poultry by exploiting linkages between the gut neurochemical and immune systems.
Poultry products...