Mike Levengood, vice president, Chief Animal Care Officer and Farmer Relationship Advocate for Perdue Farms, was elected chairman of the board of directors of U.S. Poultry
& Egg Association (USPOULTRY). The board meeting was held during the International Poultry Expo,...
Pilgrim's Pride Corp (PPC.O) said on Friday it would raise starting wages for workers at its Mayfield, Kentucky, production facility by $2 to $16.50 per hour after the area was devastated by a chain of deadly tornadoes last month.
The tornadoes killed...
The Biden Administration recently appointed John Berge as the new State Executive Director (SED) for the USDA Nebraska Farm Service Agency (FSA). Berge joined the Nebraska FSA team on Jan. 18, 2022.
“Individuals selected to serve as FSA State Executive...
Follow along with Jeff and Kendra, hosts of “The Coop With Meyer Hatchery” podcast, as they share each month what you need to know for keeping chickens. They discuss things to consider for housing, predators, feeding, and much more.
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Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig issued the following statement today after the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) confirmed Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) in a wild bird in South Carolina....
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By Brian Earnest , Tanner Ehmke , Rob Fox , Dan Kowalski , Christina Pope , Teri Viswanath and Kenneth Scott Zuckerberg
January 2022
Against all hope for a better start to 2022, omicron has crashed the New...
Smaller sized loans limited agricultural lending activity at the end of 2021.
by: Nathan Kauffman and Ty Kreitman
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The project will add 65,000 square feet to the existing plant and create 100 jobs, a news release said Thursday. Some of the jobs include skill positions that support robotics and automation processes. Work is expected to begin later...
The National Chicken Council (NCC) today released the following statement in response to the Biden administration’s plans for more government intervention in the meat and poultry industries. Attributable to NCC President Mike Brown:
“While we haven’t seen any proposals,...
New premium chicken integrator, Pure Prairie Farms Inc., completed its long-anticipated purchase of a former Simply Essentials chicken processing plant last week. The former plant, which previously closed in August of 2019, is a state-of-the-art retail tray-packaging facility and...