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APEA Spring Golf Tournament postponed

APEA Spring Golf Tournament postponed

APEA Spring Golf Tournament has been postponed till Friday, June 21 because of weather. If you need to adjust your team please reach out to Jennifer at 334-265-2732. We look forward to seeing everyone on June 21, 2024 for golf and lunch provided by K Supply. Thanks to...
APEA Host Big Bass Fishing Tournament

APEA Host Big Bass Fishing Tournament

Alabama Poultry and Egg Association’s allied committee host annual fishing tournament for 2+2 scholarships May 3, 2024. The “Big Bass Open Fishing Tournament” will launch from the Guntersville Municipal Park Boat Launch at first light. The tournament is open to...
Hightowers Named 2022 Alabama Poultry Farm Family

Hightowers Named 2022 Alabama Poultry Farm Family

Ken Hightower got into the poultry business in 2004, fully intent on getting out of the poultry business one day. What he’d do was, build four pullet houses behind his home in Calhoun County’s Rabbittown community, and he and wife Amanda would run those on top of...
Cooking Chicken with Brenda Gantt

Cooking Chicken with Brenda Gantt

By Caleb Hicks. Brenda Gantt’s house is filled with fixtures found in the home of a typical Southern lady. There are antique dressers, knick-knacks, hand-made pottery and a dining room table that could seat a small village. A homey kitchen is filled with...
Jones Takes Reins as APEA President

Jones Takes Reins as APEA President

By Caleb Hicks. The poultry industry is nothing new to incoming Alabama Poultry and Egg Association, or APEA, president Casey Jones of Hoover. As a third-generation industry employee, he’s been around the block a time or two. Jones, a longtime APEA board member, said...
Women Breaking into Poultry Industry

Women Breaking into Poultry Industry

By Caleb Hicks. Thirty-nine years ago, an 18-year-old Ramona Harris got a job hanging chickens on the processing line at what was then Spring Valley Poultry, now Koch Foods, in Gadsden. Today, Harris is still at the facility, but now as manager of the third shift,...
Ray Hilburn: The New Normal

Ray Hilburn: The New Normal

I joined the AP&EA staff in 2011, the same year the historic Tornado Super Outbreak tore a path of massive destruction across Alabama. In the aftermath of that disaster, I wrote a column recognizing the entire poultry industry for its tremendous support of those...