After much discussion and getting a FFA Living to Serve grant, New Lothrop FFA had their project – they were going to raise 500 broilers.
Each week for a month, Sanderson Farms will release a new Women in Agriculture profile on its corporate blog and social media platforms.
These Sanderson Farms ad spots once again seek to dispel commonly held myths among consumers regarding poultry production in America.
Tyson Food has developed a Contract Poultry Farmers’ Bill of Rights to enhance communications and transparency with the thousands of independent farmers who grow the company’s chickens. Tyson is also forming an advisory council made up of poultry farmers and is investing in technology for additional communications. “We value the farmers who raise our chickens […]
The key to breeding pathogen-resistant chickens may be as easy as testing the rooster, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in College Station, Texas. The test identifies roosters whose blood contains naturally high levels of two key chemicals, cytokines and chemokines. These chemicals mobilize the birds’ innate immune response, according to ARS microbiologist Christi […]
More than 1 million layers died Monday night after a fire broke out at an egg-producing facility near North Manchester, Indiana.
Michelle Miller recently read an article in The Washington Post about organic eggs, and she had to question how truthful it was.
This is the worst fear for many farmers — that their livelihood and the animals that they’ve cared for are lost to tragedy. More than 100,000 chickens died in a fire at Hillandale Farms in Pennsylvania, a commercial egg operation. Though the blaze that destroyed the 600-foot barn is believed to be accidental, the cause is still […]
Our thoughts have been with the poultry industry these past few weeks as farms in Alabama, Tennessee, and Wisconsin have reported cases of avian influenza.
It’s #TattooTuesday and we just couldn’t resist sharing these farm-inspired tats from social media. Did your ink make the cut? ???#minimalism #wheat #plants #blacktattoomag #blacktattooart #blxckink #blackworkers #blackworkerssubmission #onlyblackart #equilattera #instainspiredtattoos #blxckink #taot #tattooistartmag #skinartmagazine #iblackwork #inkstinctsubmission #skinartmagazine #tattooistartmag #tatto2me #linework #lineworktattoo #taot #wiilsubmission #whichinkilike A photo posted by •Diana Severinenko (@dianaseverinenko) on Nov […]