Farmer Focus CEO Stephen Shepard on the power of paying farmers above-market rates, why traceability matters, and disrupting ...

Their grandfathers all came to the Shipyard around 1943, pushed out by Jim Crow in the South and pulled in by the promise of ...

ABIDJAN, IVORY COAST — The third US Grains Council (USGC) African Buyers and Sellers Conference in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, ...

A celebration and panel discussion honoring Dr. Matilda Evans, South Carolina's first African American female physician, with book unveiling and exhibition. Limited complimentary tickets available.

He broke racial barriers as the first African American principal in Brevard Public Schools following desegregation, leading Cocoa High School for 23 years.

The U.S. also should boost H5N1 surveillance efforts — on dairy and poultry farms, and among farm workers and the general population. The U.S. could consider vaccinating poultry, too.

Right now, said Bhadelia, the CDC’s assessment is that the risk to the general public from bird flu is low. The people at highest risk of contracting H5N1 right now are those whose occupations involve ...

ABSTRACT The current study was conducted on eight poultry farms in Lahore and Sheikhupura to monitor environmental conditions, determine workers’ health status and assess the implementation of ...

No PPE. Just blood stains and feathers In July 2024, hundreds of workers descended on two poultry farms in rural Colorado, an hour northeast of Denver, to kill over 3 million egg-laying chickens.

Some 350,000 birds at Daybreak Farms sites in Mpumalanga, an hour east of Johannesburg, were left starving after the company ran out of money to buy feed and pay its workers.

It’s quickly taken a number of actions that directly benefit the meat industry, at the expense of the environment, animals, slaughterhouse workers, and the American consumer.

When a poultry farm tests positive for bird flu, the clock starts. Within the first 72 hours, farmers start depopulating, an industry term for killing contaminated flocks. Despite the sweltering heat ...