Prestage Farms is a vertically integrated turkey and pork producer based in Clinton, North Carolina. It is the fifth largest turkey company in the United States. It produced 420 million pounds of ...

UVC disinfection reduces bacterial contamination on hatching eggs by up to 95%, improving hatchability and chick quality while cutting labor costs compared to manual wiping methods.

By scanning eggs inside the incubator rather than after removal, the system could help producers to sort eggs by sex earlier.

The $41.7 million settlement reached July 10 replaces a settlement rejected by a federal court in Oklahoma in April.

The Tyson Foods plant in Gadsden, Alabama, was evacuated on June 22 when an ammonia leak was discovered at the facility. According to a post on the Gadsden Fire Department (GFD) Facebook page, 134 ...

Industry-wide oversupply pushed conventional egg prices to significant lows during the quarter, offsetting growth in the producer’s specialty egg and prepared foods businesses. Cal-Maine Foods ...

One lackluster bite. That's all it took for McDonald's CEO Chris Kempczinski to hand a marketing gift to his quick service competitors. But it was KFC's U.S. president Catherine Tan-Gillespie’s ...

Chick-fil-A has appointed Susannah Frost to be the company’s next president and Cliff Robinson as the next chief operating officer (COO). Both will assume their new roles on October 1. The ...

Will Brazil be able avert the looming European Union (EU) ban on its animal protein exports? These things tend to have a way of working out, but the signs are not positive. Talks are ongoing but there ...

Most people familiar with the animal protein space know that chicken tops the list as the most-widely consumed option by volume on a per capita basis. What some may be surprised to learn, however, is ...

Fear in laying hens is a measurable welfare and production risk, not just a behavior, according to a recent review from the Poultry Extension Collaborative. According to the authors, while domestic ...

The Arkansas House of Representatives passed a resolution expressing support for the state's poultry producers amid a long-running legal and regulatory dispute over water quality in the Illinois River ...