Commercial chicken farmers literally bet the farm, spending millions of dollars on land and enormous chicken houses to raise birds they never own — putting their livelihoods in the hands of a single ...

Amicks Farms processing plant in Batesburg-Leesville was heavily damaged by fire. Workers at a Batesburg-Leesville chicken processing plant, one of the largest employers in the area, are set to return ...

William Taylor (center) pleaded not guilty on Wednesday, April 30, 2025, to hacking into a chemical cleaning system for chicken processing plants and changing the dosage. John Monk [email protected] ...

William Jason Taylor (right), 52, pleaded guilty in Columbia federal court on Wednesday, July 23, 2025, to using a computer to sabotage food cleaning operations at a Sumter chicken processing plant.

Robotics, virtual reality and artificial intelligence could be game changers for poultry processors following promising results in research to integrate those technologies, according to Jeyam Subbiah, ...

Federal investigators say they found six underage workers at a large poultry plant in north Alabama and are asking a judge to stop the sale of chicken produced with child labor. Lawyers representing ...