by APEA Comm. Staff | Feb 9, 2024 | News
From USDA Agricultural Marketing Services. The Transparency in Poultry Grower Contracting and Tournaments Final Rule amending the regulations under the Packers and Stockyards Act (Act) was published in the Federal Register on November 28, 2023. On December...
by APEA Comm. Staff | Aug 26, 2022 | Feature
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...
by APEA Comm. Staff | Aug 26, 2022 | Recipes
It’s grilling season, so fire up the grill for some delicious chicken dishes. Easy Grilled Chicken Thighs are a flavorful and economical way to serve chicken this summer alongside your favorite Southern sides like pasta salad, sliced tomatoes and fried okra. Or, make...
by APEA Comm. Staff | Jul 7, 2022 | News
In direct response to the need for more maintenance technicians in Alabama’s multi-billion-dollar forestry, poultry and egg industries, the Alabama Community College System, or ACCS, is collaborating with both the Alabama Forestry Association, or AFA, and Alabama...
by APEA Comm. Staff | Feb 8, 2022 | News
Auburn University poultry science students received $57,500 in Alabama Poultry and Egg Association, or APEA, scholarships for the 2021-22 academic year. This is the largest amount ever rewarded on behalf of APEA. A program recognizing the students was held Nov. 1 at...
by APEA Comm. Staff | Sep 24, 2021 | News, Recipes
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...
by APEA Comm. Staff | Jul 29, 2021 | News
By Caleb Hicks. When Greenville native Beth Chapman heard her home church was auctioning off an iconic 10-foot-tall fiberglass chicken to benefit its food pantry ministry, she knew she’d win. Chapman, a political and public relations consultant and former Alabama...
by APEA Comm. Staff | Jul 29, 2021 | News
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...
by APEA Comm. Staff | Mar 1, 2021 | News
By Caleb Hicks. In January 2018, Noel Welch was eight credit hours away from completing his master’s degree in agronomy from Auburn University. By month’s end, he had decided he’d rather be a full-time farmer. This, from a guy who grew up in a non-farming family from...
by APEA Comm. Staff | Oct 20, 2020 | News
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,...
by APEA Comm. Staff | May 28, 2020 | News
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...
