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Poultry farms: The decreasing number of poultry farms raise fears that there might be a shortfall in the supply of poultry in the market, pushing the prices up further.

Latest awards include National Headliner Award and National Press Foundation recognition for Big Poultry, a series about a secretive and lightly regulated industry raising 1 billion birds across the state.

An investigation into poultry farming in North Carolina and related unregulated environmental hazards won the 2023 Victor K. McElheny Award in Science Journalism, an award honoring local and regional science journalism from the Knight Science Journalism Program at MIT.

Sort through what is the cause of the higher prices. >> neil: it could be supply and demand. it takes a lot to rig across an entire industry and world for that matter. at least if you can throw it out there, dont blame it on the white house or us, the party in charge, what is happening at the gas station and what is happening at your local retail store and grocery stores, even if you just throw it out there that there might be another villain out there, it does mitigate some of the finger pointi...

Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting commentator: This deal will not benefit farmers. Dont believe Cargills spin it will benefit the public.

Sen. Elizabeth (D-Mass.) is calling on the Justice Department (DOJ) to investigate Big Poultry because consumer costs are up and “Americans are paying record high prices for their Thanksgiving turkey.”

Her witch hunt is a distraction and a misguided, feeble attempt at pretending to do something about inflation.

In the old Soviet Union, whenever its state-controlled economy took an especially bad turn, government apparatchiks often responded by pinning the blame on vague bogeymen, dark and unseen forces that had supposedly conspired to sabotage an otherwise perfect society.