During the 2020 Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg last year, Johanna Kiska and her father, Jack Kiska, earned more than 60 ribbons in the poultry competition, including a reserve grand champion and several best of breed.
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In the poultry industry, robots could be used to disinfect and measure temperature, humidity, carbon monoxide and carbon dioxide, and more. Read more
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State Extension is offering a new online course, Raising Poultry in Your Backyard, for people who are considering or are currently raising a flock for pets, home consumption of eggs or meat, or exhibition. This course will lead to a better understanding for flock … Read more
U.S. poultry exports are increasing in major markets like China and Mexico, despite and even because of the coronavirus pandemic. Read more
A grant from the National Fish & Wildlife Foundation will help Delmarva Poultry Industry, Inc. build and market an online and app-based chicken litter matching tool, connecting farmers who need litter to grow crops with chicken growers who have litter to sell. Read more
The Pennsylvania Poultry Sales and Service Conference and the 92nd Northeastern Conference on Avian Diseases will be held virtually Sept. 15-16. Read more
If you are in ninth grade and know that you want to graduate from high school and go straight from the classroom to a job in the poultry industry, congratulations. There are plenty of jobs waiting for you. Read more
In the last decade, pasture-raised poultry has firmly surpassed the trend stage and carved itself out a permanent space in the arena of agricultural production. It even has its own commodity association, the American Pastured Poultry Producers Association. Read more
A four-alarm fire killed an estimated 42,000 chickens Tuesday, according to Rawlinsville Volunteer Fire Company chief Carl Strickler Jr. Read more
Editor's note: This article was originally published April 23. On May 22 and May 27 Gov. Tom Wolf announced new guidelines for the phases. This story has been updated to show these changes. Read more
Editor's Note: This story was originally published May 18. Read more