Get all the latest news on coronavirus and more delivered daily to your inbox. Sign up here. Farmers in North Carolina are being forced to euthanize 1.5 million chickens following outbreaks of the ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 2 million chickens from farms in Maryland and Delaware had to be killed last week. Poultry industry officials said staffing shortages at processing plants due to the coronavirus, ...

HARDWICK – Chicken pot pies sell faster – and for a higher price per pound – than chickens. Sausage brings in more money per pound than a side of pork. And beef processed into jerky is more profitable ...

President Joe Biden rejected a proposal that would have ramped up production at U.S. poultry plants by 25%. The executive action puts a stop to the poultry processing speed increase rule that the ...

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 ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The federal government promised Friday to spend $500 million to encourage the construction of smaller meat processing plants located closer to farmers who raise chickens, pigs ...

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 ...

A meat processing plant in Durant finds itself at the center of a nationwide recall of nearly 12 million pounds of meat and poultry products distributed to a vast number of retailers, institutions and ...

Over the Labor Day weekend, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it was going to ease wastewater regulations on meat processing plants. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a final action ...