Day has 35 years of experience at Perdue Farms, including more than two decades on the Perdue Foods side of the business.

Calls for farmer to implement a twice-daily bird health monitoring program.

Perdue Farms Inc. and The Humane Society of the United States have announced the settlement of two federal cases involving the claims.

The chicken breast and rib meat nuggets are breaded with cornmeal and salt, instead of flour.

Perdue Foods has announced that it has removed all antibiotics from its chicken hatcheries.

The chickens would be processed by Mountaire Farms and Perdue.

Randy Day has been named executive vice president of supply chain, and Mark McKay has been named executive vice president of sales and marketing.

The plant reached 1 million production hours without experiencing an OSHA recordable lost-time case.

A spokesman for Food & Water Watch estimates that the tax would raise about $15 million annually.

Closing the Booth Creek Natural Chicken plant in Fredericksburg will result in the loss of 650 jobs.