In 2007, North Carolina permanently banned new or expanded hog farms that collect waste in lagoons and spray it on fields as fertilizer. The idea was to shift to cleaner disposal methods at these ...

DG Foods is expanding its Hazlehurst operations with a $1.19 million investment, creating 32 new jobs in Copiah County.

Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins addresses the National Association of Counties legislative conference, March 4 (USDA photo) Agriculture Department officials said Thursday they're focusing their efforts to ...

HAMILTON — Ohio leads the nation in recent bird flu cases among commercial poultry operations, with more than 4.1 million chickens and turkeys affected so far this year. All of the state’s confirmed ...

GORDON COUNTY, Ga. — A case of Bird Flu was confirmed at a commercial poultry operation in Gordon County, according to officials with the USDA and Georgia Department of Agriculture. The USDA's Plant ...

Poultry producers in Bartholomew County are keeping a wary eye on their birds after a major outbreak of avian flu was reported in Jackson County. This week, officials at Rose Acre Farms’ Cort Acres ...

TasFoods has received two proposals for its Nichols poultry business as the Australian group continues to reassess the business unit. In a statement yesterday (18 December), the Launceston, ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded $1.9 million to a researcher at the University of Arkansas to study the ...