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 ...

President Trump wants countries to buy more American chicken. That's just one of the issues to surface in an escalating global trade war. NPR's Will Stone explains why. WILL STONE, BYLINE: For decades ...

Tyson Foods says it will close its meat processing plant in Emporia employing 800 people. U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, said the decision will have a significant impact on the regional economy.

Pure Prairie Poultry ran out of funds to care for over a million chickens across Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Farmers and state ag departments are left scrambling. Hundreds of thousands of chickens ...

The plant, which had operated since the 1970s, was shuttered by Cargill on Aug. 1, 2025, leaving over 1,000 people without a ...

William Jason Taylor (right), 52, pleaded guilty in Columbia federal court on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, to using a computer to sabotage food cleaning operations at a Sumter chicken processing plant.