Researchers at Georgia Tech Research Institute created an automated solution to a tiresome poultry plant task.

Cantrell-Gainco specializes in high-quality, customizable evisceration equipment, wing segmenters, yield optimization and weighing systems, and vacuum transport systems. At IPPE, Cantrell-Gainco will ...

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 ...

As we approach the festive season, 12 million broilers will be slaughtered and ready for consumption in the next three months. About 80 per cent of this number will go through informal slaughtering ...

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 ...

In virtually all markets, it is a legal requirement to chill carcasses immediately after evisceration to prevent the growth of harmful pathogens. The temperature to which products must be cooled ...

Associated Press WEST DES MOINES, Iowa — The union representing workers at chicken processing plants in six states sued the U.S. Department of Agriculture on Tuesday, saying its policy of allowing ...

The Trump administration is working to finalize a rule that would allow poultry plants to increase slaughter speeds, an action that correlates with an increase in coronavirus infections, according to ...

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 ...