Insights and Stories on Georgia

Six die in liquid nitrogen leak at U.S. poultry plant

Jan. 28, 2021 at 5:02 pm CST

Atlanta | Reuters — At least six people were killed and 12 others hospitalized on Thursday in liquid nitrogen leak at a northeastern Georgia poultry plant, officials said. Five people died at the Foundation Food Group plant in Gainesville, about 35 km northeast of Atlanta, before they could be taken […]

Who owned the chemicals that blew up Beirut? No one will say

Aug. 11, 2020 at 4:51 pm CDT

By Jonathan Saul Lisa Barrington Maria Vasilyeva

Irma whips orange trees, shuts meat plants

Sep. 11, 2017 at 7:47 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Top U.S. chicken-producing state sees first case of bird flu

Mar. 27, 2017 at 8:38 pm CDT

By Tom Polansek

Trump to name ex-Georgia governor as ag secretary

Jan. 19, 2017 at 3:40 am CST

By Reuters

U.S. farmers race to ready for Hurricane Matthew’s blast

Oct. 6, 2016 at 7:37 pm CDT

New York | Reuters — Hurricane Matthew, the fiercest Caribbean storm in nearly a decade, roiled commodities markets and forced companies from cane refiners to orange juice makers to shutter as it whipped its way toward the southeastern U.S. on Thursday. Southeastern companies were closing down operations ahead of a […]

By Chris Prentice

Georgia to accept Canadian breeding cattle, hogs

Feb. 2, 2016 at 6:21 pm CST

Canada may be able to move up to $2.5 million more in live breeding cattle and live breeding swine to the Black Sea region each year, with new market access to Georgia. The former Soviet country’s government will allow imports of Canadian breeding cattle and hogs effective immediately, Agriculture Minister […]

By Staff