Processing the nearly 100,000 chickens that come through the plant each day is primarily automated, save for a few instances of manual work. It starts in what Kolterman described as the “kill/pick ...

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 ...

Two million chickens on several farms in Delaware and Maryland will be "depopulated" — meaning humanely killed — due to a lack of employees at chicken processing plants, according to a statement from ...

Sixty miles northeast of Atlanta, a chicken statue atop a 25-foot monument proclaims the small city of Gainesville the “Poultry Capital of the World.” In the rolling hills outside of town, white ...

SPRINGDALE, Ark. – Tyson Foods is closing four chicken processing facilities across the U.S., the company announced Monday. The four Tyson Foods plants closing are located in Corydon, Indiana; Dexter, ...