Poultry farming

At the 2026 Georgia Precision Poultry Farming Conference, University of Georgia poultry scientist Ramesh Selvaraj said nutrition-based, pre-harvest interventions can lower Salmonella loads in layer flocks but cannot eradicate pathogens entirely. He identified Salmonella enteritidis as the princip...

Tyson Foods reported second-quarter fiscal 2026 sales of $13.65 billion, a 4.4% increase from the prior year, with gains led by its chicken business and market-share improvements in retail and foodservice channels. The company singled out chicken as the primary engine of momentum, and said the se...

The U.S. poultry industry is more than three years into an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) with no clear end in sight, and understanding what fuels transmission has become an operational priority for commercial producers. Erica Spackman, acting research leader at USDA’s Natio...

The National Chicken Council filed formal comments with the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service backing the agency's proposed 18-month delay to the Poultry Grower Payment Systems and Capital Improvement Systems rule. 18-month delay proposed was the council's central demand as AMS...

U.S. broiler chicken numbers kept rising this week, with the USDA reporting 256.077 million broiler-type eggs set into incubation, an increase of 317,000 from the prior week and 3% above last year. 256.077 million eggs were set, while the reported average hatchability edged down ...

For years U.S. livestock producers have been measured against generic global averages that often understate the efficiencies of modern domestic production. The Meat Institute released a report in April 2026 titled Emissions Factors Brief that lays out methods for companies to doc...