The USDA recently finalized a set of rules under the Packers and Stockyards Act, drawing varying responses from different quarters. USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack stated that these rules aim to assist contract poultry growers and ensure transparency in their...
Source: PoultryHealthToday.com
Each day, Tyson Loewen rises at 5 am and heads to the four chicken houses on his Guntersville, Alabama, farm. For the next 5 hours he studies his flock of 180,000 birds. He looks for disease symptoms, assesses...
Source: Reuters
A plan hatched by Cargill Inc and Continental Grain Co to combine two big chicken processors - Sanderson Farms and Wayne Farms - flies in the face of the Biden administration's efforts to fight not just consolidation in...
R. Harold and Patsy Harrison Foundation establishes distinguished professorship in poultry science
Gifts and pledges totaling more than $2.6 million from the R. Harold and Patsy Harrison Foundation have established the R. Harold and Patsy Harrison Distinguished Professorship in Poultry...
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...
Source: Sanderson Farms
The Landrum Family
With the help and encouragement of another poultry grower, Tommie Landrum decided it was time to depart from his career in sales and lead his family to the poultry industry. After searching and finding the...
Perdue Farms is testing technology that may help with a labor crunch in the meat industry as it pertains to raising chickens outdoors: rolling, solar-powered houses that bring birds to fresh pastures every day.
The mobile coops are being used...
Processed chicken products whose labels show they were raised without antibiotics (RWA) were on average $2.23 per pound more expensive than conventional chicken products between 2012 and 2017, representing a 55-percent markup over conventional products.
Processed chicken products include fresh...
With nearly 2.5 million employed in an industry that produces 1.1 billion broilers per year, Egypt’s poultry industry is booming. Because of its dry climate, however, the country’s production levels are heavily reliant on producers’ ability to use resources...
Reprinted from: PoultryHealthToday.com
Publication of USDA performance standards prompted some poultry company customers to refuse product from processing plants in Category 3, according to participants at a food safety roundtable.
When USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) results were initially...
