USPOULTRY is offering a technical reference guide in Spanish for NewPoultry Inspection System (NPIS) carcass sorter training in poultry plants. This guide is part of USPOULTRY’s Food Safety Technical Reference Series and is intended for use as validation...
Beef prices climbed 24% in second quarter, with chicken up 14%
Tyson shares are trading higher in New York trading Monday
Tyson Foods Inc. lifted its revenue outlook as prices for chicken and beef continue to soar.
The biggest U.S....
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Laborers worked for a month disposing of birds killed in a gruesomely inhumane manner. Then they found they too were disposable
Chris McGreal in Rembrandt, Iowa
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The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial layer chicken flock in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and a non-commercial backyard flock...
Grant project creates in-person, online training, network for disposal efforts
Texas livestock producers will soon have new resources to help them navigate challenges associated with mass animal losses that can occur during outbreaks of chronic disease or highly pathogenic viruses...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is looking into vaccines as an option to protect poultry against deadly bird flu, the agency's chief veterinary officer said as the country faces its worst outbreak since 2015.
Supporters say vaccines could help keep...
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin today announced that Perdue AgriBusiness, a leading U.S. agriculture products and services company, will invest $59.1 million to expand its operation in the City of Chesapeake. The company will modernize facilities and increase production of its high protein...
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...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced the launch of the Meat and Poultry Processing Capacity Technical Assistance Program (MPPTA) to provide technical assistance to meat and poultry grant applicants and grant-funded projects. Processors and applicants involved with...
The Nebraska Department of Agriculture (NDA) announced on Tuesday that it has confirmed a case of the highly contagious bird flu in a commercial flock of 570,000 broiler chickens and that the birds will be "humanely depopulated and disposed of."
NDA, in conjunction with...