The agency’s expanded guidance now governs inspections in animal processing facilities, aiming to address high injury rates, ...

The $45 million was used by Pure Prairie Poultry to help expand and renovate a shuttered processing plant in Charles City, Iowa. USDA issued a press release in July of 2024 to celebrate the ...

If yield starts at the hatchery, then uniformity is integral from the start. Once sexed birds arrive on the farm, raising males and females in separate houses allows producers to fine-tune management ...

USDA announced $20.2 million in awards to 26 projects through the Local Meat Capacity (Local MCap) grant program to expand ...

The safety of mass-produced food has improved dramatically in recent decades, but listeria, a common type of bacterium, ...

New Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidance goes beyond poultry barns to cover all animal slaughtering and processing ... dangerous equipment and machinery, slippery floors ...

The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship lats week announced it had culled over a million birds as a result of ...

It smelled and my head hurt, my throat was burning, my tongue was numb and I felt nauseous,” one poultry worker told The Bee.

Several chicken farmers in North Iowa are still struggling with the loss of Pure Prairie Poultry, a chicken processor which ...

Expanded inspection guidance for the animal slaughtering and processing industry replaces previous poultry-only guidelines.

USDA Deputy Secretary Xochitl Torres Small announced that her department is making investments to strengthen America’s farms ...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack speaks in his home state of Iowa at a press conference during the World Food Prize ...