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WASHINGTON — As the days grow longer and temperatures rise, it is time to shelve the coats and boots and dust off the grill. USDA’s Food Safety & Inspection Service offers a few helpful tips to avoid unwelcome fooborne bacteria at your next cookout. “When you fire up the grill to cook out this...
RALEIGH, N.C. — The Southeastern Grain & Feed Association has announced that it again will award eight $2,000 scholarships in 2013 to qualifed applicants. Employees, children and grandchildren of full-time employees of active members of the association are eligible. Eligible candidates must be enrolled as a student in an accredited college or technical school...
The Associated Press RAEFORD, N.C. — House of Raeford Farms has set the closing date for a turkey plant in Hoke County. The company said the plant in Raeford will close by July 27, putting about 1,060 people out of work. The company had said in March it would close the plant later this...
COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Texas A&M University has begun a new online Poultry Meat Production Certificate program available to anyone with Internet access. Participants do not have to be accepted or registerd as a Texas A&M student. The four poultry science courses include General Avian Sciences, offered spring and fall semesters; Poultry Meat Production,...
WOOSTER, Ohio — Patented technology developed at Ohio State University’s Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center (OARDC) has led to the creation of a startup company for the production of diagnostic tools and vaccines to combat poultry and livestock diseases. LARAD Inc. is the result of Ohio State research conducted by Daral Jackwood, a...
