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Peco Foods closing Sebastopol feed millThursday, September 9, 2010 @ 10:56AMPeco Foods will build a new feed mill in Lake, Miss., closing down its similar operation in Sebastopol.

Peco moving feed mill to LakeThursday, September 9, 2010 @ 10:25AMLAKE, Miss. (AP) - Peco Foods will build a new feed mill in Lake, Miss., closing down its similar operation in Sebastopol. Peco CEO Mark A. Hickman says the new, $25 million mill is expected to begin operations in 2012.

Chicken sexing job opportunities in declineTuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 6:41PMTOKYO – Chicken sexers in Japan once enjoyed well-paid careers with overseas travel and job security, but industry changes mean their expertise is not needed so widely and fewer people are seeking to join the profession.

Eli Y. Adashi: The Incredible Inedible Egg: 500 Million Reasons for Senate ActionTuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 6:23PMOne would not normally expect anything of value to come out of rotten eggs. The case of the tainted Iowan shell eggs may well be the exception.

Chicken sexers lament industry declineTuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 12:22PMChicken sexers in Japan once enjoyed well-paid careers, but industry changes mean their expertise is not needed so widely and less people are seeking to join the profession.

Local eggs avoid salmonella scareTuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 6:46AMFRANCONIA - The recent nationwide salmonella outbreak has many consumers crying fowl over the safe edibility of eggs.

Chicken sexers in Japan lament the decline of an industryTuesday, August 31, 2010 @ 2:00AMTOKYO (Reuters Life!) - Chicken sexers in Japan once enjoyed well-paid careers with overseas travel and job security but industry changes mean their expertise is not needed so widely and less people are seeking to join the profession.

California's Egg Quality Assurance Program Enables Consumers to Buy With ConfidenceTuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 7:00AMAs more than 500 million Iowa-produced eggs are being recalled nationally, California-produced eggs have been free of Salmonella enteritidis for more than ten years and experts point to the state's California Egg Quality Assurance Program as the primary reason.

Egg recall comes at time of industry consolidationTuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 1:56AMSafety inspections have fallen through the cracks as a shrinking number of companies produce most of the eggs found on grocery shelves. Business - United States - Food and Drug Administration - Food and Related Products - Poultry