Hundreds of Nash County, N.C., residents protested a proposed Sanderson Farms chicken processing plant. Residents say the plant would ruin their quality of life and could jeopardize the area’s drinking

President Barack Obama and his South Korean counterpart Lee Myung Bak failed to reach agreement on a free-trade accord as the two nations wrangled over automobile and beef imports to

A new comprehensive economic analysis of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s proposed regulation found it would be bad for farmers and ranchers, bad for consumers and bad for rural America,

A diverse coalition of farm and food trade associations today filed a suit in federal court to overturn the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent decision to allow gasoline containing 15 percent

Sara Lee Corp. reported lower operating income and diluted earnings per share from continuing operations for the first quarter of fiscal 2011, primarily due to higher commodity costs net of

APPA Fine Foods, a Corona, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 7,325 pounds of ready-to-eat chicken pasta salad products because they contain cilantro that may be contaminated with Salmonella, the U.S.

Bob Evans Farms announced that it is closing the fresh sausage production line at its Bidwell, Ohio, production facility, effective today. The company cites the difficult economics of the current

After opening up the country to chicken imports in September, A Russian official announced that the country would stop buying frozen chicken after Jan. 1. The head of Russia's consumer

PMMI, the producer and owner of PACK EXPO, and the American Meat Institute (AMI), sponsor and producer of the AMI International Meat, Poultry and Seafood Industry Convention and Exposition, announce

Allen Brothers chairman Bobby Hatoff was elected president of NAMP by the Board of Directors at its meeting last Wednesday before the Outlook Conference in Scottsdale, Ariz. In his remarks