Faced with ongoing financial pressure, shoppers are balancing value, quality, and convenience rather than stepping away from ...

STACYVILLE, Iowa — Farm Service Agency leaders toured a plant designed to be the model for independent poulty processing plants nationwide, as they looked for solutions in the wake of Tyson Foods ...

GOBBLERS GONNA GOBBLE: Hickory Nut Gap Farm in Fairview is raising 450 turkeys in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday. Photo courtesy of Hickory Nut Gap Farm Fall is always busy on Western North ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that it is overhauling poultry processing inspections for the first time in nearly 60 years, enacting a plan that will cut the number of ...

Researchers have assessed the impact of processing on the presence and transfer of antimicrobial resistant bacteria on chicken meat. Findings showed that while Campylobacter and E. coli were present ...

The government is considering measures to convert surplus eggs into powdered and other processed forms as part of efforts to tackle recurring gluts in the poultry industry and minimise losses incurred ...

Amirreza Davar, left, is a mechanical engineering graduate student in the Departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He designed ...

Nearly 1 million chickens and turkeys are unintentionally boiled alive each year in U.S. slaughterhouses, often because fast-moving lines fail to kill the birds before they are dropped into scalding ...

The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing new rules that would allow faster line speeds at pork and poultry processing facilities. Under proposed rules released ...