Articles Tagged with ''National Chicken Council''

Mark Munger has been hired as the senior director of marketing for Ocean Mist Farms and Ken Melban has been elevated to vice president of industry affairs and operations at the California Avocado Commission.

The Consumer Brands Association has picked David Chavern to serve as the organization’s new president and chief executive officer, while Jacqlyn Schneider is a new partner at FGS Global’s food and agriculture practice.

Comments submitted to USDA revealed sharp divisions over the department's proposed rule aimed at improving transparency in poultry contracts and the tournament payment system used in the industry.

USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service is collecting comments on a proposed rule and an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking related to poultry grower contracts and the use of a tournament-style system that ranks producers and impacts how much they get paid.

Growers of the nation’s broiler chickens say there should be plenty of wings and dummies available for hungry football fans watching Sunday’s Super Bowl matchup.

The House is scheduled to vote today on both a $1.2 trillion bipartisan infrastructure bill and the larger Build Back Better package of climate measures and social spending.

Chuck Magro has been tapped to serve as the new CEO at Corteva and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation has selected Hilary Harp Falk as the organization’s next CEO and president.

The U.S.-China trade relationship is so incendiary that any misstep could have dire ramifications, U.S. Trade Representative Katherine Tai told a gathering of American chicken industry officials Thursday in Washington.

The Department of Agriculture has announced new key staff positions, and the former CEO of the American Soybean Association, Ryan Findlay, has joined Farmers Edge.