SPRINGFIELD — A bill that would lift long-standing restrictions on small poultry farmers in Illinois, reducing red tape and transforming the way local farmers process and sell their products, is ...

SPRINGFIELD Starting Jan. 1, 2026, a new law supported by State Senator Christopher Belt will allow smaller poultry producers ...

Amidst the annual holiday boom in turkey sales, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is proposing a new rule to reduce salmonella in poultry. That's a laudable goal, but the actual ...

The Russell County Butchery submitted a petition that USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) took in on Sept. 5. It requests that FSIS change the guidance for determining whether a poultry ...

While news of an avian flu outbreak is for the birds in the minds of many people, the folks at the midvalley Rock Bottom Ranch are taking it seriously because of potentially foul (or maybe fowl) ...

COUNT YOUR CHICKENS: Foothills Meats owner Casey McKissick, left, sources his chickens from Melissa George, right, of Mountainside Family Farms in Swannanoa. George is able to process her poultry ...

The president of the Association of Small Poultry Producers of Moca-Licey (Approamoli), Ambiorix Cabrera, warned that the ...