Shortly before 7:45 a.m., the slaughterhouse workers trudged inside the nondescript building at the end of a dirt road and headed to what they called the "kill floor." There, when no one was looking, ...

U.S. catfish producers hope a recent Department of Commerce determination will level the playing field in their long-running fight over cheaper imported Vietnamese catfish. “The frustrating thing as a ...

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) may have to get in the Catfish business. It’s all part of a relentless campaign by the Catfish Farmers of America to get USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection ...

NATCHEZ, Miss.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--More than 250 catfish farmers from across the Southeast met here March 5-7 for the 2009 Catfish Farmers of America Annual Convention and Research Symposium, which was ...

JACKSON, Miss.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A traveler making his way through the South from other parts of the country might come upon the unfamiliar sight of acres upon acres of similarly shaped, man-made ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala -- Some Alabama catfish farmers are getting out of the business as soaring commodities prices make it tough to profit anymore. Catfish feed that was selling for $250 a ton has shot up ...

Ten days away from the beginning of full enforcement of USDA catfish inspections, the department’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is doing a little remedial training for “wild-caught” producers.

ABELZONI, Miss. (AP) - Catfish pond owners used to hate to see scum growing across their waters. Now though, some farmers are changing that scum into cash. Some farmers are giving up catfish and ...

MONTGOMERY, Ala. -- Upstate catfish farmers have received nearly $9 million in federal stimulus money since mid-July, Alabama Agriculture and Industries Commissioner Ron Sparks announced ...

What, exactly, is a catfish? That’s the question that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is being forced to consider, thanks to the efforts of American catfish farmers to get Vietnamese catfish ...

As the 2012 farm bill moves to the Senate floor, a scuffle has intensified over the inspection of catfish. The battle pits the southern catfish industry and its supporters against a wider coalition of ...

ATLANTA - They don't look too much like catfish. They don't taste like them, either — at least to catfish connoisseurs. But Vietnamese basa and tra fish often fool consumers in the U.S., where they're ...