Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At an event last summer, Jefferson County farmer LeTicia Marshall explained how small scale poultry operations can work. A new ...

STACYVILLE, Iowa — Farm Service Agency leaders toured a plant designed to be the model for independent poulty processing plants nationwide, as they looked for solutions in the wake of Tyson Foods ...

Tyson Foods has been closing plants, sometimes driving chicken farmers out of business. Some farmers allege that the company put their life’s work in jeopardy in order to raise the price of chicken.