Associated Press WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — The union representing workers at chicken processing plants in six states sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday, saying its policy of allowing ...

SPRINGDALE, Ark. – Tyson Foods is closing four chicken processing facilities across the U.S., the company announced Monday. The four Tyson Foods plants closing are located in Corydon, Indiana; Dexter, ...

Farming livestock is a good way to celebrate life but it also requires dealing with death. That can be a problem for small-scale and beginning farmers, including the many people who decided to start ...

A shuttered northeast Iowa chicken processing plant will get new life, creating about 400 jobs, thanks in part to nearly $46 million in federal assistance designed to create competition in the ...

The Happy Halal processing facility project in Willmar, Minnesota, received more than a million dollars in grant money from the USDA for the construction of the plant. Goats raised for halal slaughter ...

Almost 10 years ago, the Department of Agriculture gave Chinese processing plants the greenlight to process raw poultry from the U.S. and export cooked products — such as canned chicken noodle soup ...

Tyson Foods' New Holland chicken processing facility could be getting more work late this year or early next year as the company closes a total of six plants due to a slump in business and to make ...

Despite rising demand for chicken, Sanderson Farms may decide to wait to build another chicken processing plant. On Tuesday, Sanderson Farms CEO Joe Sanderson spoke during the Goldman Sachs Global ...

In its recent third quarter sales and financial report, Tyson Foods announced it was closing four chicken processing plants including two in Missouri and one in Arkansas. “While current market ...

Margret Wanjiru at one of the chicken slaughtering exercises at Muruguru village in the outskirts of Nyeri Town constituency, 2022. [Mose Sammy, Standard] For poultry farmers, things can go wrong ...