Farmer LeTicia Marshall grew up helping her grandparents grow tobacco on 40 acres in Metcalf County. She has fond memories of ...

Meat and poultry processors are under increasing pressure to balance throughput, yield and cut quality as product variability ...

Amirreza Davar, left, is a mechanical engineering graduate student in the Departments of Biological and Agricultural Engineering and Mechanical Engineering at the University of Arkansas. He designed ...

Salmonella is a common source of food poisoning that leads to potentially life-threatening illnesses, widespread food recalls ...

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, ...

The Agriculture Department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is proposing new rules that would allow faster line speeds at pork and poultry processing facilities. Under proposed rules released ...

In virtually all markets, it is a legal requirement to chill carcasses immediately after evisceration to prevent the growth of harmful pathogens. The temperature to which products must be cooled ...

Researchers in Arkansas and two other states will be using a $5 million grant to increase the use of artificial intelligence and robotics in chicken processing to reduce waste in deboning and detect ...

Researchers have assessed the impact of processing on the presence and transfer of antimicrobial resistant bacteria on chicken meat. Findings showed that while Campylobacter and E. coli were present ...

Data reveals which poultry plants have a greater risk of contamination — but experts say that processing isn't what matters ...