On June 3, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins launched the Small Processors Action Plan (PDF, 2.3 MB), a new set ...

Workers at poultry plants suffer some of the highest rates of occupational injury in the U.S. and advocates worry things could get worse. Chickens travel down a conveyor belt from the chiller and are ...

Consumer Reports analyzed USDA data and identified 56 poultry plants in 22 states with high Salmonella contamination levels. Some of the worst-performing plants supply major brands like Tyson, Perdue, ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - Hurricane Helene shut at least two poultry plants in Georgia and North Carolina and twisted cotton crops in South Carolina in blows to U.S. food and fiber production, company and ...

The company plans include increasing capacity at its Ellijay plant and shuttering the aging Chattanooga operation.