Ammonia leak reported at Pitman Farms poultry plant in Sanger. Here’s what we know
It smelled and my head hurt, my throat was burning, my tongue was numb and I felt nauseous,” one poultry worker told The Bee.
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Ensuring strong supply chains in poultry processing
Supply chains both into and out of the processing plant need to be monitored with care if processors are to the supply the ...
A Million Culled Chickens Show Pitfalls of Biden’s Meatpacking Revamp
A bankrupt poultry supplier and construction delays on processing plants reflect hurdles to boosting agriculture startups.
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GOP lawmakers decry millions loaned by USDA to poultry producer that went bankrupt
The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship lats week announced it had culled over a million birds as a result of ...
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U.S. Representatives want answers from USDA regarding suddent shutdown by Pure Prairie Poultry
Pure Prairie Poultry shuttered its Charles City, Iowa, plant after filing for bankruptcy last month (Sept. 2024). The ...
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Lawmakers Demand Answers After Iowa-Based Poultry Processor That Received $45 Million From USDA Goes Bankrupt
That's after Pure Prairie Poultry said in late September that due to its bankruptcy, it could no longer afford to buy feed ...
GOP lawmakers demand USDA responses to Pure Prairie Poultry situation
Lawmakers from several states, including Arkansas, questioned the U.S. Department of Agriculture on its oversight of Pure ...
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EPA data: Meatpacking plants mostly pollute low-income, communities of color
Across the Midwest, meatpacking plants -- including Agri Star in Postville -- often pollute non-white communities and ...
Iowans in Congress seek investigation after 1.3 million chickens put down
Despite USDA financial backing, Pure Prairie Poultry closes plant in Charles City. Stuck with 1.3M chickens, Iowa ag department has them euthanized.
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Shuttered Iowa poultry plant leaves birds unfed, producers uncertain
30 amid financial struggles that ended with the plant being shuttered ... but a $6.9 million grant from USDA's Meat and Poultry Processing and Expansion Program provided “gap financing ...
Secretary Vilsack discusses Pure Prairie Poultry closure, bird flu dairy testing program
The U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack said Thursday the U.S. Department of Agriculture and state departments of ag ...