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Canada's Sunrise Farms Planning New C$100 Million Ontario Poultry Plant
4+ hour, 4+ min ago (245+ words) Canada's Sunrise Farms has announced plans to build a new C$100. 5 million, 155, 000-square-foot poultry processing facility in Woodstock, Ontario. The project is being supported by a $4-million grant from the Invest Ontario Fund and is expected to create 100 new jobs…...
USDA Opens $60 M in New Grants for Beef Processors
1+ week, 1+ day ago (104+ words) Peter Thomas Ricci is the Managing Editor at Meatingplace magazine, where he brings over a decade of journalism experience to covering the American meat processing industry. His role encompasses writing feature articles, contributing to the publication's twice-daily newsletter, and visiting…...
Poultry Processor Expanding Nugget Production with State Incentives
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (201+ words) DG Foods, a custom poultry processor based in Hazlehurst, Miss. , is investing $1. 19 million in a capacity expansion, supported by state and local tax incentives. For the project, the company is installing new automated chicken nugget portioning equipment to expand chicken…...
Broad HPAI Losses Reported Coast to Coast
2+ mon, 1+ week ago (205+ words) Broiler farms have lost flocks of 32, 800 in Kent County, Del. , and 95, 600 broilers and 59, 900 in Caroline County, Md. In Illinois, turkey farms with 52, 600 and 7, 900 birds were struck by H5 N1 in Lawrence County, and another with 49, 700 turkeys in Crawford County. The table egg industry…...
Bankrupt Poultry Processor Fined for Animal Mistreatment
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (358+ words) A Wisconsin circuit court deemed bankrupt chicken processor Pure Prairie Poultry liable for 30 counts of mistreatment of animals after its abrupt closure in 2024 left thousands of birds in that state without feed. Buffalo County Circuit Judge Thomas W. Clark imposed $13, 575 in…...