Idaho News
Winds Sicken Chickens
A recent study of chicken farms in the West found that high winds increased the prevalence in outdoor flocks, of a bacterial pathogen in poultry that is the largest single cause of foodborne illness in the U.S. Researchers found that about 26% of individual chickens had the pathogen at the “open environment” farms in the […]
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Idaho News
3 Idaho Farmers Settle Suit
According to federal prosecutors, three farmers in Eastern Idaho have paid a total of $500,000 to settle allegations that they violated the False Claims Act by submitting fraudulent Coronavirus Food Assistance Program applications. The settlement resolves allegations that the three knowingly and impermissibly included millions of pounds of potatoes on applications by two of them […]
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