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“This is a serious threat to Georgia’s #1 industry and the livelihoods of thousands of Georgians who make their living in our state’s poultry industry,” Georgia Agriculture Commissioner ...
ATLANTA (AP) — For the first time since the 2022 countrywide outbreak, bird flu hit a poultry producer in Georgia, the nation's top state for chicken production. The state Department of Agriculture announced Friday that the agency has detected a case of Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza at a commercial poultry producer in Elbert County ...
Georgia produces the most chicken of any state in the U.S., with 1.3 billion chickens produced in 2022, according to World Population Review, based on USDA statistics.As of 2022, the industry ...
Bird flu was detected in a commercial poultry flock in Georgia for the first time since the current outbreak started in 2022, officials announced on Friday. The positive case of the H5N1 strain of ...
Wayne Farms LLC is an American producer and processor of poultry based in Oakwood, Georgia.. As a subsidiary of ContiGroup, Wayne Farms operates hatcheries, feed mills, finishing farms, and processing facilities to supply poultry to retail and foodservice customers worldwide.
Gainesville is a city and the county seat of Hall County, Georgia, United States. [6] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 42,296.Because of its large number of poultry processing plants, it has been called the "Poultry Capital of the World."
In the United States, chickens were raised primarily on family farms or in some cases, in poultry colonies, such as Judge Emery's Poultry Colony [1] until about 1960. Originally, the primary value in poultry keeping was eggs, and meat was considered a byproduct of egg production. [2]
For the first time since the 2022 countrywide outbreak, bird flu hit a poultry producer in Georgia, the nation's top state for chicken production. The state Department of Agriculture announced ...