The Land :: www.TheLandOnline.com Poultry 2012-02-05T07:25:21-06:00 urn:uuid:88e72437-829a-4051-af53-464b4b3066ce Cover story: 4-H poultry is taking flight By Dick Hagen urn:uuid:a9b30239-88e9-46e1-b757-8ced3e038e2c 2010-09-24T10:32:08-05:00 <p>Poultry numbers, breed diversity are on the rise in 4-H events across the state.</p> Commentary: HSUS - wolves in sheep's clothing urn:uuid:937675d0-fec3-42a6-88ac-9b4f2b4c6328 2010-06-18T09:10:06-05:00 <p> In 2008, Dan Mathews, vice president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals said, &quot;when you consider any movement for social change, it&#39;s really got to be seen as a generational one.</p> Farm and Food File: Alabama fried chicken - antitrust chief taking your calls urn:uuid:8440c6b7-4a3a-4e76-ae6d-c3511b84b170 2010-06-04T12:58:15-05:00 <p> In a morning session of the May 21 U.S. Department of Justice-Department of Agriculture workshop on ag and antitrust enforcement, Alabama poultry grower Garry Staples told officials he expected &quot;retaliation&quot; from the firm he grows chickens for because of his participation in that event&#39;s discussion of poultry contracts.</p> Farm and Food File: Why, oh why, couldn’t I have grown up to be a meatpacking executive? urn:uuid:4d6d51a1-9215-4c20-9a68-305a17be22e6 2010-01-15T03:12:20-06:00 <p>Rare is the new year that begins without me wondering how I took a wrong turn on the road of life and became a writer rather than a highly paid, universally respected, heaven-bound meatpacking executive.</p> USDA final rule to improve transparency and equity in poultry market urn:uuid:3856712d-b392-4e01-9b60-1b5b3ff2549e 2009-12-02T10:17:00-06:00 <p>U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the USDA's Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration will publish a final rule tomorrow to increase fairness and equity in the poultry industry by amending regulations under the Packers and Stockyards Act of 1921 to provide poultry growers with new information and improve transparency in poultry growing arrangements.</p> Latest AI detection prompts BAH to remind producers of need for strict biosecurity urn:uuid:a62b6a36-37fc-4e4b-a978-a4fa6e5fbbf7 2009-08-06T14:03:00-05:00 Minnesota Board of Animal Health is reminding poultry producers and owners of backyard flocks to observe sound biosecurity measures to prevent the spread of AI. Ashby opens new USDA inspected poultry processing plant By Dick Hagen urn:uuid:b53334c2-c11f-4716-82d1-e7589a89c9a1 2009-07-02T15:13:00-05:00 Entrepreneurs Darrin and Trent Froemming are launching a sparkling, stainless steel, custom poultry processing plant that they hope will soon be processing over 200,000 birds per year. Benson plant generates power from turkey litter By Dick Hagen urn:uuid:99080711-13b1-4226-b704-8f4ee2837da6 2007-08-31T02:14:00-05:00 The new turkey litter-fired power plant in Benson "... sits at the intersection of two national obsessions: an appetite for lean meat and a demand for alternative fuels.” Turkey growers sound off on new Fibrominn plant By Dick Hagen urn:uuid:2d5b144a-4b2d-466e-a93c-f431ad1e754f 2007-08-31T02:12:00-05:00 As you might expect, you’ll hear plenty of both pros and cons about the Fibrominn plant in Benson, and what it’s doing to the Minnesota turkey litter market. Egg processor hatching new products, fiscal growth By Dick Hagen urn:uuid:377b1743-756f-4c65-997d-427186a66116 2007-05-25T02:13:00-05:00 It’s not every corporate annual meeting where shareholders walk into the meeting room to find the wonderful smell of omelets being prepared by a chef, and egg product samples placed on the tables.