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June is usually recognized as Pride Month for the LGBTQ+ community, but Westminster is showing its “Pride” in July instead.

In May, President Trump raised tariffs on imported Chinese goods, taxes paid by the U.S. companies that important them and potentially passed on to consumers.

Perdue Farms is recalling more than 31,000 pounds of chicken as the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture says some patties, tenders and nuggets may contain bone material.

We have to make a choice — allow industrial farms to continue overusing antibiotics as they have for decades or get routine antibiotic use out of our food system. The Maryland legislature has chosen, again, to preserve these drugs and protect public health. Gov. Hogan should make the same choice.

Perdue's president of prepared foods, Steve Evans, has left the company, the company said.

Maryland-based Perdue is expanding its organic offerings amid growing demand.

A guide to Maryland's six minor league ballparks.

As President Donald Trump weighs trade policies that could provoke China to impose tariffs on U.S. soybean exports, Eastern Shore farmers fear what the ripple effects could be on what is Maryland's largest crop by acreage.

Under legislation proposed in the General Assembly, the Maryland Department of the Environment would begin testing air quality in communities with large concentrations of chicken farms. Farmers say such testing is unnecessary because they haven't observed any negative health effects.

The farmhouse of the family behind Perdue Farms has been added to a state historical registry.

The family farmhouse of the third-largest chicken producer in the United States has been named a landmark after it was built a century ago.

Perdue makes first report on animal welfare efforts

In the few years, Holly Poultry plans to quadruple volume and nearly double the workforce to meet a growing demand for poultry

Poultry workers on the Eastern Shore are willing to endure the arduous conditions and do what they can to make the industry as productive as possible: They work hard and long, and contribute to the local and national economy. Each year, they process over a quarter of a billion chickens, adding up to over $1 billion for the Maryland economy. In return, they would like the poultry companies, particularly Perdue, to take their responsibilities to the workers just as seriously.

When Perdue Farms named its new CEO earlier this month, a chicken company with a taste for innovation and taking risks embraced something different: stability.

State lawmakers voted Monday to ban routine use of antibiotics in poultry.

The case for strictly limiting use of antibiotics on farms isn't just compelling; it's terrifying.

Jim Perdue has stepped aside as CEO of Perdue Farms, promoting Randy Day to become the second non-family member to lead the company.

Jim Perdue has stepped aside as CEO of Perdue Farms, promoting Randy Day to become the second non-family member to lead the company.

Giant Food launches pilot sustainability ratings program as more and more consumers want to know how their food is grown and made, and retailers look for ways to give them information in a digestible way. One grocery analyst dubbed sustainability one of the year's top grocery trends as consumers begin to embrace the idea much as many started seeking organic products in recent years.

In one end of the long green warehouse come heaps of powdery, malodorous chicken manure. Out the other goes garden-ready fertilizer sold to golf courses or companies like Scotts, which bags it and markets it as Miracle Gro Organic Choice and other products.

Perdue is the first major American poultry supplier to stop using routine, low dose antibiotics in their agricultural operation. If Perdue, which processes approximately 13 million chickens each week, can make this change, why can't everyone?

To chicken magnate Jim Perdue, chickens aren't the biggest problem facing the Chesapeake Bay. And oysters are the solution.

I sidled over to a man in a white Perdue lab coat who had joined us on a farm. "Jim," his name tag said (yes, that Jim). I plied him with questions about how to increase yield and profits before hitting him with my big question. What about music? Do chickens like music? Stunned silence followed.

Perdue Foods plans to announce an overhaul this morning of its animal welfare policies, which the nation's fourth largest poultry producer says will be a first-of-its-kind effort in the industry and impact about 700 million animals.

Steve Evans will rejoin Perdue Farms Inc. as president of Perdue Foods LLC, the Salisbury-based company announced Thursday.

Massive chicken farms are sprouting across the Eastern Shore by the dozens, putting the largest segment of Maryland's agriculture industry in conflict with neighbors used to a more pastoral setting.

Claim that chicken processing plant workers are denied bathroom breaks doesn't hold water

A recent survey of over 60 poultry workers at several plants in the Delmarva region, shows workers endure cold, wet, slippery and dangerous conditions; they incur a lot of damage to their bodies; they struggle to keep pace with the line; and they earn low wages.

A group of state lawmakers wants to require big poultry companies to be responsible for the manure from their chickens that are grown on family farms – forcing a change in practice that the industry has opposed.

Some lawmakers have come up with a bright idea — shift the burden of excess manure from farmers to the big poultry companies

Protecting the Bay

Chickens destined for Perdue packages suffer from the beginning to the end of their shortened lives, despite the fact that they are just as sensitive and intelligent as our dogs and cats. Perdue can do better, and we should expect it.

Animal rights activists are criticizing Salisbury-based Perdue Farms after watching a video showing a worker squeezing a chicken under his boot and throwing another bird against a wall at a North Carolina farm under contract with Perdue.

Maryland must take additional steps to protect Eastern Shore tributaries from millions of pounds of chicken manure

Agriculture officials and poultry farmers in Maryland are taking extra precautions against bird flu after outbreaks have devastated flocks in other states.

Driving home to Baltimore from a meeting with a potential new customer one cold February afternoon, my wife and I chuckled when we crossed the state border. In addition to "Maryland Welcomes You," our state's "Enjoy Your Visit!" sign on Route 15 now read, "We're Open for Business," followed by Gov. Larry Hogan's signature. I'd like to make our new Maryland greeting a bit more honest by inserting one word toward the end. It should read: "We're open for big business."

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Drawing on her own notes and interviews, Frank Perdue's widow, Mitzi Perdue, has published a book of business and life lessons based on the Eastern Shore businessman's experience.

Gov. Larry Hogan's pursuit of 'rain tax' repeal is not only nonsensical, it's delighting his opponents in Annapolis

As Maryland companies were interested in Cuban prospects when President Jimmy Carter eased some restrictions in the late 1970s, they are again watching to see how new developments unfold.

Sunday column on Hogan, O'Malley and chicken manure

Regulators must protect consumers from seafood fraud and help put an end to illegal fishing overseas

Organic fertilizers a better choice for Maryland farms

Better late than never, Maryland takes needed steps to curb phosphorus pollution from poultry manure and protect the Chesapeake Bay

Eastern Shore farmers don't oppose phosphorous management — if it's science based.

Unfair to criticize Perdue Farms for its efforts to reduce the impact of poultry manure

Jim Perdue says he has no voice in Maryland yet the evidence suggests otherwise