Peco Foods Inc.

In the ongoing nationwide outbreak, avian influenza has been detected in half the states that border Arkansas. read more >

A federal appeals court revives a legal challenge to an Arkansas law that farm organizations have used to shield themselves from undercover investigations by animal rights groups. read more >

In the biggest sector of Arkansas’ biggest industry, the mission these days is not counting your chickens, but counting your workers. read more >

Alan Risley, plant manager for Peco Foods in Pocahontas, says the company has risen to the test of the COVID-19 pandemic. read more >

U.S. immigration officials raided seven Mississippi chicken processing plants Wednesday, arresting 680 mostly Latino workers in the largest workplace sting in at least a decade. read more >

With a boost from business and business friendly policies, Independence County has vaulted to the top of the Arkansas Economic Development Commission's incentive tier rankings. read more >

Communities in northeast Arkansas saw record growth in 2017, including sales tax revenue and employment gains across the region. read more >

One staffing company in northeast Arkansas, Onin Staffing, is going above and beyond to find employees — and employee housing — for Peco Foods. read more >

The arrival of large-scale employers like Peco Foods Inc., Allegis Corp. and American Silica has brought an economic boom to rural communities in northeast Arkansas. But housing has struggled to keep pace with the influx of business and population. read more >

The opening of the Peco feed mill in Corning earlier this year broke a long dry spell of big industrial development news for Corning and provided a glimmering counterpoint to the closing of the 44-year-old L.A. Darling plant. read more >

In 2014, Peco Foods Inc. announced it was building a massive poultry processing plant in Pocahontas. That project is now nearing completion and is expected to spur economic activity in the area. read more >

Work on the new $200 million integrated poultry operation of Peco Foods Inc. is changing the landscape in northeast Arkansas. The nearly 200-acre poultry plant complex site near Pocahontas, assembled in three buys totaling almost $1.4 million in February 2014, is the centerpiece of construction activity. read more >

The city of Hoxie left the Northeast Arkansas Regional Intermodal Facilities Authority, an economic development group, because it couldn’t afford the annual fees. read more >

Real estate agents in northeast Arkansas say they're seeing more business after last week's announcement that a $165 million poultry operation is headed to the area. read more >

Gov. Mike Beebe and executives from Peco Foods announce plans for a new $165 million poultry operation in northeast Arkansas that will employ 1,000. read more >

Officials in Randolph County have signed an agreement with Peco Foods Inc. allowing up to $135 million in revenue bonds for a new poultry plant in northeast Arkansas. read more >

Peco Foods Inc. of Tuscaloosa, Ala., will unveil plans for a new integrated poultry operation in northeast Arkansas that weighs in at more than $165 million. The development is viewed as the best manufacturing news in years for Randolph and Clay counties. read more >