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 | 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...
