From Miami to San Diego, schools around the U.S. are seeing big drops in enrollment of students from immigrant families. In ...

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It was just before 3 a.m. in March when the hum of machinery at the OK Foods poultry plant in Heavener was broken by a haunting scream, according to one worker. That night, the sanitation crew ...

OK Foods poultry processing facility in Heavener, Oklahoma, is shown. OK Foods is owned by the Mexican company Industrias Bachoco. photo by Brianna Bailey, The Frontier This story was originally ...

Current and former employees describe a punishing pace of work and questionable safety standards at a Heavener plant where recent immigrants fill a constant need for laborers. OK Foods poultry ...

On October 10, 2025, a settlement was filed in an information sharing case that highlights the antitrust risks of exchanging information with competitors and sheds light on the relatively aggressive ...

Tanmiah Food Company launched two new facilities in the central region of Saudi Arabia: a poultry processing plant in Al Majmaa and a feed mill in Dahna. These additions complement Tanmiah's existing ...

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, ...

A research team at the Arkansas Agricultural Experiment Station is proving how artificial intelligence, robotics, and virtual reality can reshape poultry processing. Professor Jeyam Subbiah leads the ...

An autonomous robot that takes swabs and analyzes them for pathogens in a poultry processing facility was developed by the Arkansas team of the Center for Scalable and Intelligent Automation in ...