Top 10 poultry stories, blogs of August 2018

Find out what the ten most-read poultry-related news stories and blogs were on WATTAgNet during the month of August:

Eduardo Mota Silva, Freeimages.com
Eduardo Mota Silva, Freeimages.com

Find out what the ten most-read poultry-related news stories and blogs were on WATTAgNet during the month of August:

1. Video prompts Kroger to suspend Mahard egg supply

Supermarket chain Kroger and Mahard Egg Farms were targeted in an undercover video that was allegedly filmed at a Mahard facility in Sulphur, Oklahoma.

2. Tyson Foods to acquire Keystone Foods from Marfrig

Tyson Foods has reached a definitive agreement to buy the Keystone Foods business from Marfrig Global Foods for $2.16 billion in cash.

3. Tyson vaguely answers question on possible Keystone buy

Tyson Foods CEO Tom Hayes did not directly answer a reporter’s question concerning Tyson’s potential acquisition of Keystone Foods, but did imply that purchasing the tenth largest poultry company in the United States is consistent with the company’s growth strategy.

4. West Liberty to close Crystal Lake Farms poultry plant

The Crystal Lake Farms poultry processing plant in Jay, Oklahoma, will cease its operations on September 10, the company announced.

5. Infographic: 12 months of Tyson mergers, acquisitions

The past 12 months have been busy for Tyson Foods in terms of mergers and acquisitions, divestitures and investments in other companies.

6. How free-range access impacts poultry health, welfare

After years of agricultural progress placed the bird inside a cage or barn in the name of efficiency and food safety, the chicken is heading back to the barn yard. However, is this the best move for the animal?

7. Tyson: Keystone a great platform for international growth

Tyson Foods executives said that the thought of acquiring Keystone Foods was particularly attractive because Tyson saw the business as a great way to expand its international reach.

8. BLOG: Is plant closure bad omen for Global Animal Partnership?

Roy Graber: The slower-growing broiler and Global Animal Partnership (GAP) movements recently suffered a setback, as it was announced that the Crystal Lake Farms poultry processing plant in Jay, Oklahoma, would be shutting down.

9. APHIS finalizes avian flu indemnity payment conditions

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is issuing a final rule outlining the conditions under which USDA will pay indemnity to farms affected by highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI). It includes updates to USDA’s February 2016 interim rule.

10. West Liberty Foods is suing Blue Apron for US$26 million

West Liberty Foods filed a lawsuit against Blue Apron over a $26 million dispute last month. The dispute is over the meal kit company supposedly failing to pay for half of the cost affiliated with purchasing and operating a free-range chicken company in Arkansas.

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