Currently, grass is mainly used directly as animal feed for cows and other ruminants. These animals have multi-compartmental ...

Supply chains both into and out of the processing plant need to be monitored with care if processors are to the supply the ...

CB Group and Devenish Nutrition will explore combinations of feed, housing and breeds to boost productivity and efficiency in the country's poultry sector.

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

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

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

Across the Midwest, meatpacking plants -- including Agri Star in Postville -- often pollute non-white communities and ...

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

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 ...

The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said Thursday the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state departments of ag ...

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack defends USDA's investment in now-bankrupt Iowa plant, saying the agency's default rate is ...