Tyson Foods Inc. will invest $320 million in a new chicken-processing plant in northeastern Kansas employing 1,600 people so that it can keep up with a growing consumer demand for fresh poultry ...

Tyson closed chicken plants in Dexter and Noel, Missouri, with about 700 workers and 1,500 workers, respectively. Cal-Maine said it plans to initially employ about 100 people at the Dexter plant.

Seven former employees of Tyson Foods were convicted Tuesday of 22 counts of animal ... threw and otherwise abused chicken by putting plastic rods through their nostrils so that they would starve, and ...