Apr. 10—SAYBROOK — Saybrook Township Hall was packed for a meeting Monday night to discuss a variance for a chicken-processing plant. Jim and Beth Buck shared their plans with the Saybrook Zoning ...

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, ...

Almost 10 years ago, the Department of Agriculture gave Chinese processing plants the greenlight to process raw poultry from the U.S. and export cooked products — such as canned chicken noodle soup ...

Researchers in Arkansas and two other states will be using a $5 million grant to increase the use of artificial intelligence and robotics in chicken processing to reduce waste in deboning and detect ...

In a typical poultry processing facility, much of the waste is simply dumped in a landfill or incinerated. Two experimental new processes, however, make use of the feathers, blood and bones – plus one ...

GOBBLERS GONNA GOBBLE: Hickory Nut Gap Farm in Fairview is raising 450 turkeys in preparation for the Thanksgiving holiday. Photo courtesy of Hickory Nut Gap Farm Fall is always busy on Western North ...

President Joe Biden rejected a proposal that would have ramped up production at U.S. poultry plants by 25%. The executive action puts a stop to the poultry processing speed increase rule that the ...

The coronavirus pandemic has taken a toll on the poultry industry — especially those who work at the processing plants. Hundreds of workers, most of whom are immigrants, have contracted COVID-19. Meat ...

A shuttered northeast Iowa chicken processing plant will get new life, creating about 400 jobs, thanks in part to nearly $46 million in federal assistance designed to create competition in the ...