CHICAGO—Tyson Foods is shutting four more chicken plants—in Arkansas, Indiana and Missouri—to cut costs, a blow to small communities in the U.S. heartland that depend on the meatpacker for nearly 3,000 jobs. The company, which reaped big profits as meat prices soared during the COVID-19 pandemic, is now adjusting to a decline and to slowing […]
A Broward County jury has awarded a Florida family $800,000 in a civil lawsuit against McDonald’s and one of its franchisees after a toddler was burned by hot chicken nuggets. In May, the jury found that McDonald’s and franchise owner Upchurch Foods were liable for failing to properly warn or provide reasonable instructions on the […]
CHICAGO—Tyson Foods Inc. will close two U.S. chicken plants with almost 1,700 employees on May 12, the company said on Tuesday. The closures show that the biggest U.S. meat company by sales is still trying to figure out how to improve its chicken segment that has struggled for years. Tyson Foods will shut a plant […]
In Colorado, a community farm is keeping the environment in mind, with chickens tilling soil rather than traditional farming equipment. OwlTree Farms is working on moving back to small localized regenerative food systems. While large-scale machine tillage improves short-term soil fertility, it speeds up erosion and soil runoff. Chickens’ tilling the soil removes the need […]
Foster Farms is recalling around 148,000 pounds of fully cooked frozen chicken breast patty products over possible plastic contamination, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on Oct. 29. The American poultry company, headquartered in Livingston, California, produced the frozen breaded chicken breast patties on Aug. 11, 2022. They were then shipped to Costco distribution centers in Arizona, California, Colorado, Utah, and Washington, […]
CHICAGO—The U.S. state of Nebraska reported on Tuesday an outbreak of highly lethal bird flu in a flock of 570,000 chickens being raised for meat. Millions of U.S. broiler chickens being raised for meat, egg-laying chickens and turkeys have been infected with bird flu since February or culled to prevent the spread of the disease. […]
Serenade Foods is recalling nearly 60,000 pounds of frozen, raw, breaded, and pre-browned stuffed chicken products that could be contaminated with Salmonella Enteritidis, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Monday. The products were produced on Feb. 24 and Feb. 25, 2021, and were shipped to distributors across the country, the service said. They include specific […]
With the price of chicken soaring, the third-largest poultry producer in the United States is being bought for $4.53 billion. Cargill and Continental Grain have formed a joint venture to acquire Sanderson Farms, paying $203 per share in cash for a company that last year processed more than 4.8 billion pounds of meat. The companies […]
Tyson Foods Inc. is recalling nearly 8.5 million pounds of ready-to-eat chicken products because they may be contaminated with Listeria, the USDA Food Safety and Inspection Service announced Saturday. “The frozen, fully cooked chicken products were produced between December 26, 2020 and April 13, 2021,” the agency said in a statement. “The products subject to […]
A restaurant owner from Buffalo, New York, told Fox Business on Monday that chicken wings are getting more expensive because farms are struggling to deal with a national labor shortage. Greg Duell, the co-owner of Duff’s Famous Wings, told Fox Business that wing prices from his supplier were up 99 percent and that they couldn’t keep […]
Chickens are in short supply. Part of the blame goes to Tyson’s roosters. The meat processor, which sells poultry along with beef and pork, said that its chicken volumes have been low in part because the roosters it uses for breeding are not meeting expectations. “We’re changing out a male that, quite frankly, we made […]
Pilgrim’s Pride Corp, one of the largest U.S. poultry producers, pleaded guilty and was sentenced to pay a $107.9 million fine on Tuesday to settle federal charges it conspired to fix chicken prices and passed on the costs to consumers and other purchasers. Chief Executive Fabio Sandri entered the guilty plea on the company’s behalf […]
Do you store chicken in your freezer? You might want to take a look at the label.
In late September, Tip Top Poultry, Inc. issued a voluntary recall of all “cooked, hot deboned fowl meat” due to possible Listeria contamination. On Tuesday, Tip Top expanded it to include additional products and retailers.
