by - September 7, 2016 8:06 pm
Fort Smith-based OK Foods has won in a recent breach of contract suit filed against the company by poultry grower Earl Oldham of Stigler, Okla. Oldham sued the company for…
by - May 10, 2016 4:36 pm
Chicken companies like Tyson Foods, Simmons Foods and other players are making plenty of money these days but they are not making much of it in China. That market is…
by - March 7, 2016 6:27 pm
With industry wage pressures growing, Fort Smith-based OK Foods is raising its base pay rate to $10 per hour impacting more than 2,500 workers in its poultry processing plants. The…
by - January 5, 2016 12:15 pm
The 2016 market outlook bodes well for everyone from small cattle and poultry farmers to large multinational companies like Tyson Foods. Cattle markets improved in 2015 and 2016 could be…
by - October 13, 2015 5:07 pm
While most U.S. businesses have been shut out of Cuba for 55 years, Arkansas’ poultry industry has exported broiler meat to the tiny island nation for more than a decade….
by - September 22, 2015 2:34 pm
Thomas Lionel Barton, a long-time poultry specialist at the University of Arkansas and friend to the local poultry industry, died Sept. 19 at age 78 in his Fayetteville home. Barton…
by - March 10, 2015 10:59 am
Ozark Mountain Poultry (OMP) plans to acquire a chicken processing plant that ConAgra Foods intends to close in July, according to company release. ConAgra announced March 6 that the company…
by - March 5, 2015 6:05 pm
Antibiotic use in animal production has long been an issue of debate among health officials and agricultural groups. But under consumer pressure, restaurant giant McDonald’s announced its commitment to end…
by - August 13, 2014 5:24 pm
Blue Rooster is finalizing plans to open a poultry deboning operation at the former H&L Poultry plant in Warren, and anticipates 100 new jobs will be created, according to the…
by - February 25, 2014 5:23 pm
Peco Foods Inc. has acquired Townsends’ poultry plant, feed mill and hatchery in Batesville. Peco also said it will purchase selected inventories, according to an announcement by Mark Hickman, CEO…
by - January 29, 2014 11:42 pm
Casey Wilson, a poultry grower near Huntsville, Ark., said three of his seven houses are heated with propane gas and with two-week old birds and frigid temperatures he is quickly…
by - January 14, 2014 1:14 pm
Poultry companies like Tyson Foods and Pilgrim’s Pride along with independent firms such as Simmons and OK Foods are expected to pull back poultry production in hopes of bolstering prices…
by - November 5, 2013 2:03 pm
A three-year low price in corn this week is helping to fuel the competitive fires among Tyson Foods Inc. and other major chicken processors as they seek to gain marketshare…
by - September 27, 2013 9:14 pm
Arkansas was a big winner in the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s additional poultry purchase program announced earlier this month. Tyson Foods and O.K. Foods garnered contracts for 66.12 million pounds…
by - September 18, 2013 10:27 am
The University of Arkansas and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff have agreed to form a partnership they hope will help fill a need for more graduates in the…
by - September 9, 2013 1:56 pm
Poultry companies like Tyson, Simmons and O.K. Foods should benefit from the U.S. government’s stepped up purchases of dark meat chicken that is now sitting in cold storage. The U.S….
by - August 26, 2013 5:39 pm
Investors of Tyson Foods got cold feet on Monday (Aug. 26) amid concerns of steep production increases that will most certainly pressure poultry margins in the coming quarters. Shares of…
by - July 25, 2013 5:20 pm
A Pilgrim’s Pride processing plant in DeQueen, Ark., was cited for 11 safety violations by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The poultry processing plant was…
by - June 18, 2013 6:17 pm
Rain is seen as a blessing from the heavens unless it keeps farmers from planting or harvesting on time. As the rain continued to fall throughout the spring planting season,…
by - June 9, 2013 9:52 pm
Meat giant JBS, parent company of Pilgrim’s Pride, said it will pay as much as $3 billion in cash and assumed debt of Seara Brasil poultry to expand its footprint…
