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Tyson Foods Inc. is investing in Malayan Flour Mills Berhad (MFM), a Malaysian flour, grain and poultry company. Tyson is planning specifically to invest in the company’s vertically integrated poultry division. Tyson is purchasing a 49 percent stake in MFM’s…

Alabama-based Peco Foods will be adding operations to its Pocahontas plant as part of a company-wide realignment. This realignment is aimed at realigning the family-owned poultry company with “changing customer needs and economic conditions,” according to a Peco Foods release.…

by Lauren McLemore More than 49,000 farms are operated in Arkansas, 97 percent of them family-owned, according to Arkansas Farm Bureau. Sixteen percent of farms produce 92 percent of production. Here’s a look at what’s being produced on Arkansas farms:…

A legislative bill that requires edible agricultural products to be truthfully labelled will be headed to Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s desk soon. The Arkansas Senate voted to approve HB 1407, which prohibits a person from “misbrand[ing] or misrepresent[ing] an agricultural product…

By Caleb Talley | Historic photos courtesy of Shiloh Museum of Ozark History John W. Tyson was born in the northwest Missouri community of Mound City. In 1931, during the height of the Great Depression, Tyson moved his family south to…

Tyson Foods is buying Tecumseh Poultry, the Nebraska-based company that makes the Smart Chicken brand of air-cooled chicken. According to Tyson, the company plans to keep Tecumseh Poultry’s nearly 600 workers and allow the company to operate as a separate…