The plant, which had operated since the 1970s, was shuttered by Cargill on Aug. 1, 2025, leaving over 1,000 people without a ...

Commercial chicken farmers literally bet the farm, spending millions of dollars on land and enormous chicken houses to raise birds they never own — putting their livelihoods in the hands of a single ...

Debris is stacked by a fence at Amick Farms processing plant in Saluda County. The plant was heavily damaged by fire. Tracy Glantz [email protected] The blaze raged through the night and into the ...

William Taylor (center) pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, to hacking into a chemical cleaning system for chicken processing plants and changing the dosage. John Monk [email protected] ...

Consumer Reports has released details of an investigation highlighting the most contaminated poultry processing plants in the U.S., pinpointing those with persistently high levels of Salmonella ...

AlaTrade Foods, an Alabama-based poultry processing company, laid off 165 employees at its Phenix City plant. The layoffs, effective March 27, are under scrutiny for a potential violation of the WARN ...

Robotics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence could be game changers for poultry processors following promising results in research to integrate those technologies, according to Jeyam Subbiah, ...