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The Sioux Falls plant was the site of one of the earliest major outbreaks in the industry, with the plant accounting for the large majority of coronavirus infections in the state of South Dakota in April 2020.

As California’s Drought Worsens, the Biden Administration Cuts Water Supplies and Farmers Struggle to Compensate The driest year in four decades for the state’s water supply hub is hitting its richest agricultural valley hard. May 28, 2021 In an aerial view, a tractor kicks up dust as it plows a dry field on May 25, 2021 in Madera, California. As California enters an extreme drought emergency, water is starting to become scarce in Californias Central Valley. Credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Im...

HUNTINGTON — Five Marshall University graduates have been selected for induction into the School of Journalism and Mass Communications Hall of Fame.

Fighting Attacks on Inconvenient Science—and Scientists The atrazine wars offer a cautionary tale for scientists whose work triggers blowback by regulated industries, and lessons for protecting scientific integrity. May 24, 2021 Tyrone Hayes, an endocrinologist at the University of California, Berkeley, speaks at King University. In 2002, Hayes reported that atrazine, manufactured by Swiss agrochemical giant Syngenta, turned male frogs into hermaphrodites. Credit: Earl Neikirk Related Share t...

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In California’s Farm Country, Climate Change Is Likely to Trigger More Pesticide Use, Fouling Waterways Warmer temperatures would boost pest populations, causing farmers to use more insecticides that, with more frequent and severe storms, turn into toxic runoff. May 10, 2021 A helicopter sprays insecticide on a field outside of El Centro, California in the Imperial Valley on Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2015. Credit: Sandy Huffaker/Corbis via Getty Images Related Share this article Every spring, Calif...

The poultry paucity comes after a tumultuous year in the meat industry, with the coronavirus pandemic upending supply chains and infecting tens of thousands of workers.

It seems the poultry paucity has arrived, heralded by a series of fast-food executives describing in earnings calls their stores struggles to stock enough chicken - nuggets, tenders, wings, patties, all shapes and sizes - to keep pace with legions of peckish Americans. "Demand for the new sandwich has been so strong that, coupled with general tightening in domestic chicken supply, our main challenge has been keeping up with that demand," said David Gibbs, CEO of Yum Brands, whose KFC restaura...

Print article It’s not like we weren’t warned. The doomsayers predicted this months ago: “A MASSIVE CHICKEN WING SHORTAGE IS BREWING,” blared the headline of one trade publication in early February. But it turned out to be so much worse. Bloomberg News, on Thursday: “Fried-Chicken Craze Is Causing U.S. to Run Low on Poultry.” In other words, not just wings, but chicken in general. Or, as Bojangles put it in a recent tweet about their tenders: “we’re experiencing a system-wid...

America is running low on chicken. Blame covid-19, a sandwich craze and huge appetite for wings. Reis Thebault © Eric Gay/AP Randy Estrada holds up his Popeyes chicken sandwich, shortly after the fast food chain introduced the menu item in 2019, which The Washington Post dubbed the Year of the Chicken Sandwich. (AP Photo/Eric Gay) It’s not like we weren’t warned. The doomsayers predicted this months ago: “A MASSIVE CHICKEN WING SHORTAGE IS BREWING,” blared the headl...