Robotics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence could be game changers for poultry processors following promising results in research to integrate those technologies, according to Jeyam Subbiah, ...

Researchers in Arkansas and two other states will be using a $5 million grant to increase the use of artificial intelligence and robotics in chicken processing to reduce waste in deboning and detect ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced is has invested more than $43 million in meat and poultry processing research, innovation and expansion in an effort to transform the food system at ...

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 ...

William Taylor (center) pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, to hacking into a chemical cleaning system for chicken processing plants and changing the dosage. A criminal case before U.S.

Researchers have assessed the impact of processing on the presence and transfer of antimicrobial resistant bacteria on chicken meat. Findings showed that while Campylobacter and E. coli were present ...

The small handful of companies that make up the hyper-consolidated poultry processing industry rely heavily on contracted farmers—the farmers they pay raise the birds for them on their own farms ...

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 ...

Tyson Foods Inc. is closing four chicken processing plants as it looks to lower costs. The company said Monday that the plants being closed are located in North Little Rock, Arkansas; Corydon, Indiana ...

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.

Tyson Foods Inc. is closing four chicken processing plants as it looks to lower costs. The company said Monday that the plants being closed are located in North Little Rock, Arkansas; Corydon, Indiana ...