LITTLE ROCK, AR – The Poultry Federation (TPF) awarded $166,000 in scholarships for the 2020-2021 academic year to 21 graduate and 40 undergraduate students majoring in poultry related studies at Arkansas, Missouri and Oklahoma universities.

HUNTSVILLE, AL – Global poultry breeding company Aviagen^® has loaned a molecular diagnostic testing machine to a medical facility in Mobile, AL.

SPRINGDALE, AR — On the same day it announced its fiscal third quarter results, Tyson Foods Inc. also said the company is appointing a new chief executive officer.

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, AR - Safe Foods Corporation announced Monday that Blake Broadaway has been promoted to the newly created role of Chief Commercial Officer, effective immediately. Broadaway has been with Safe Foods since 2018, most recently as the company's Director of Sales, North America.

WALBRIDGE, OH—Jones‐Hamilton Co. announces the promotion of Blake Gibson to the role of Division Manager for the Agricultural Division. Gibson joined the company in 1994 as the Agricultural division’s founding employee, where he worked to introduce to the poultry industry to PLT® ‐ Poultry Litter Treatment one farm at a time.

Peco Foods, the nation’s eighth largest poultry company, has created three new positions after restructuring the sales and marketing department.

Today, Governor Mike Parson and Missouri Director of Agriculture Chris Chinn announced the creation of the Missouri Meat & Poultry Processing Grant in an effort to quickly increase food supply chain resilience in our state.

Peco Foods, the nation’s eighth largest poultry company, is announcing Steve Evans as its Chief Commercial Officer. In this position, Evans will be responsible for driving progress in developing and implementing the corporate commercialization strategy, building a cutting-edge infrastructure to grow the market for Peco’s products and increasing revenue growth.

Global poultry breeding company Aviagen® will break ground this month on a new state-of-the-art feed processing facility (feed mill) in Pikeville, Tenn.