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Close to 5000 North Carolina families produce poultry on their farms, with another 25,000 directly employed in some aspect of poultry production or processing.
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Mountaire Farms holding Thanksgiving food drive 9/01/23
Wayne-Sanderson donation helps purchase drug detection K-9 in N.C. 7/25/23
Poultry communities support poultry farmers 6/23/23
Dawn Lynch, accomplished professional leads House of Raeford's food saftey team 6/09/23
Don Taber House of Raeford recognized 5/12/23
Tyson Foods launches wellness initiatives at North Carolina poultry plant 4/26/23
New VP of operations joins Butterball 4/21/23
Perdue Farms CEO Randy Day Announces Retirement 4/19/23
NTF Food Safety Leaders Talk Turkey 3/28/23
Mountaire Farms awarded AFIA's Integrator Feed Facility of the Year 3/17/23
Over 110,000 pounds of food from Tyson given out 12/21/22
Perdue Foundation’s $50K grant supports expansion of N.C. YMCA 12/21/22
Tyson Foods to donate 80,000 pounds of protein to support North Carolina Community without power 12/08/22
Governor Cooper Pardons Two Turkeys from the Thanksgiving Table 11/22/22
North Carolina Turkeys Head to the White House 11/20/22
Turkey raised in NC to receive President Bidens Thanksgiving Pardon 11/17/22
Agribusiness pioneer Bill Prestage passes at age 87 10/14/22
NCPF Annual Meeting 2022 10/12/22
Passion, Poultry, and a lot of Firsts 7/29/22
Perdue Farms Supports Daughters of Zion Restoration Inc. 7/25/22
Wayne Farms supports N.C. homeless shelter with $5K gift 7/05/22
Dr. Patricia Curtis receives the North Carolina Poultry Federation Appreciation Award 7/01/22
House of Raeford announces scholarships – WATT Poultry 7/01/22
A N.C. cattle farmer describes inflation's impact on his operations 5/21/22
Poultry Sciences Curtis Praised for tranformative leadership 5/20/22
Butterball receives work safety certification in North Carolina 3/25/22
NC Poultry Federation Holds 1st Quarter Board of Directors Meeting 3/16/22
NC State Names New Dean of College of Veterinary Medicine 3/15/22
Parker to Serve as 2022 Nationsl Turkey Federation Chair 3/01/22
Tyson recognized as one of the World's Most Admired Companies by Fortune 2/02/22
What is 'Bird Flu'? Do I need to worry about it? 2/02/22
Case Farms Recognized as Business of the Year by Burke County Chamber of Commerce 2/02/22
Jim Sumner receives Harold E. Ford Lifetime Achievement Award 1/27/22
Prestage Farms chooses Marel's end-to-end turkey solutions 12/09/21
Mountaire names year's top growers 12/03/21
How inflation may gobble up Thanksgiving budgets 11/19/21
House of Raeford Farms FLOCK Cares honors those who serve 10/27/21
NC Poultry Federation's Annual Meeting convenes after a 2020 voluntary cancellation due to Covid-19 10/12/21
N.C. Plant Earns GreenCircle Zero-Waste-To-Landfill Re-Certification 9/30/21
Five questions with State Veterinarian Dr. Mike Martin (ncagr.gov) 9/09/21
Dr. Michael Martin Named as North Carolina's New State Veterinarian 8/14/21
New Poultry Learning Center Focuses on Education... 8/06/21
Case Farms Morganton Facility Reaches One Million Man Hours Without a Lost-Time Accident 8/02/21
House of Raeford Farms awards $35,000 in scholarships 7/16/21
Tyson Foods Announces Donnie King to Succeed Dean Banks as President and CEO 6/02/21
Carving out a strategy 4/26/21
Perdue Farms Driver Alvin Smith Achieves Four Million Consecutive Accident-Free Driving Miles 4/26/21
Laying the Foundation for an Agricultural Career 4/01/21
NC Poultry Federation recognized as a "Fouding Funder" of NC Plant Sciences Initiative 2/16/21
Meet Jarrod Lowery-Mountaire's Community Relations Manager and recent NCPF Board of Directors member 2/12/21
NC Governor Roy Cooper virtually pardoned two turkeys just in time for Thanksgiving. 11/29/20
Researchers Investigate Novel Method for Enumeration and Characterization of Coccidia in Poultry 11/11/20
Announcement of Retirement: Donald James of Prestage Farms 10/27/20
Case Farms Receives NCDOL Safety Award for Third Consecutive Year 10/20/20
Trey Braswell, of Braswell Family Farms, recognized by Business North Carolina as a 2020 Trailblazer 10/14/20
Perdue chairman elected to the Meat Industry Hall of Fame 10/06/20
Blake Lovette, poultry industry executive and North Carolina Poultry Federation Hall of Fame inductee dies 10/01/20
Columbus County Board of Commissioners remove permit and look to State for intensive livestock regulation 9/22/20
Tyson Foods to Pilot Health Clinic in Wilkesboro, North Carolina 9/22/20
Dr. Patricia Curtis, Department Head of the Prestage Department of Poultry Science at NC State University, appointed to serve on National Advisory Committee for the US Department of Agriculture 8/24/20
Wayne Farms Fundraiser Supports Virtual Learning 8/12/20
NCPF & NCC Op-Ed June 2020 6/13/20
Butterball Donates 500,000 Meals to Food Bank of Central and Eastern North Carolina 4/28/20
Clint Rivers installed as 2019-2020 chairman of the National Chicken Council 10/31/19
Perdue Farms' Lewiston, N.C., Associates Continue Legacy of Giving to the American Cancer Society 10/08/19
NC Poultry Federation's Annual Meeting 9/03/19
Alexandra Lee 2019 Scholarship Winner 6/24/19
NCPF holds 1st Quarter Board Meeting 4/05/19
NC Poultry Federation at the recent Midwest Poultry Federation Meeting 3/20/19
Prestage, New U.S. Poultry & Egg Association Chairman - (PDF 282KB) 2/11/19
Wilkes Community College recipient of recruiting grant from US Poultry & Egg Association 11/27/18
Windell Talley recently named honorary alumnus at Wingate University 11/13/18
NC Poultry and NC State University congratulate Windell & Judy Talley 11/01/18
USPOULTRY Foundation Check presentation to Dr. Patricia Curtis 10/31/18
Hurricane Florence Relief efforts 10/16/18
Construction begins on NCDA&CS Agricultural Sciences Center 7/31/18