Mississippi poultry industry hit by Easter tornadoes
Tornadoes and damaging storms that swept through the Mississippi on Easter Sunday afternoon and evening killed 11 people and caused devastating losses to growers in the poultry industry. Tom Tabler, […]
Feathers in the Spring fundraise postponed but drawing still April 25
Due to the current situation with COVID-19, we are postponing the Feathers in the Spring fundraiser to later in the year (date TBD). We are still going to hold the […]
Poultry producers race to catch up with retail ‘chicken run’
Poultry processors are ramping up production to restock bare coolers at grocery stores, where consumer demand has surged even as restaurant demand has plummeted during the COVID-19 shutdown. The pandemic […]
Foster Farms: Community approach key to managing coryza spread in poultry
Tackling endemic poultry diseases as a community rather than as individual producers can play an important role in controlling and limiting their spread. And while that can sometimes result in […]
CPF 2020 Summer Golf Tournament and Meeting June 29-30
The California Poultry Federation (CPF) Summer meeting will be held on June 29-30, 2020 at The Cliffs Resort & Spa in Pismo Beach, CA. As you know, this is one […]
Foster Farms donates more than two million servings of poultry to COVID-19 hunger relief efforts
Foster Farms is partnering with food banks to help provide more than two million meals to families impacted by the economic consequences of COVID-19. In the coming days, the family-owned […]
USDA confirms Highly Pathogenic H7N3 Avian Influenza in a commercial flock in Chesterfield County, South Carolina
The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed the presence of highly pathogenic H7N3 avian influenza (HPAI) in a commercial turkey flock […]
Reducing the risk of salmonella re-contamination in feed
Deploying risk mitigation strategies across the feed-to-food production chain can help assure safe animal feed and poultry production. However, certain processes, such as the desiccation (drying out) of salmonella cells, […]
Three chickens a second: USDA gives poultry slaughterhouse green light to speed up processing
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) gave a Washington State poultry plant permission to significantly increase its processing speeds-a move some fear may jeopardize worker and food safety. Foster Farms, the biggest […]
U.S. poultry industry fulfilling its role as ‘essential’ during crisis
During this unprecedented time of health crisis stemming from the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the nation’s poultry and agriculture industries are working non-stop to meet the nutritional needs of not only […]