STACYVILLE, Iowa — Farm Service Agency leaders toured a plant designed to be the model for independent poulty processing plants nationwide, as they looked for solutions in the wake of Tyson Foods ...

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 ...

TREMPEALEAU COUNTY, Wis. (WEAU) - The abrupt closure of a poultry plant in Iowa is resulting in a dire situation for chicken broiler farmers in Western Wisconsin. “We just got to get the birds out.

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 ...