The Happy Halal processing facility project in Willmar, Minnesota, received more than a million dollars in grant money from the USDA for the construction of the plant. Goats raised for halal slaughter ...

WASHINGTON — Nearly 2 million chickens from farms in Maryland and Delaware had to be killed last week. Poultry industry officials said staffing shortages at processing plants due to the coronavirus, ...

Republican lawmakers have called on USDA to provide explanations regarding the oversight of Pure Prairie Poultry, Inc., which filed for bankruptcy shortly after receiving substantial USDA funding. The ...

SPRINGDALE, Arkansas, Feb. 1 (Reuters) - Tyson Foods Inc. , the largest U.S. meat company, said on Friday it has signed a deal with a Chinese company to raise and process Tyson brand name chicken in ...

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 ...

VINELAND — A former poultry-processing plant here is in line for a second life as a marijuana-growing facility, although the new owners are facing a lot of renovations. The property, almost 7 acres on ...