Source: https://georgiarecorder.com/, May 5, 2025
By: Stanley Dunlap

Agriculture is Georgia’s top industry, and broilers are the state’s top farm product.

But the mess that large-scale poultry farming causes can create tensions between residents and corporate owners. And that is playing out in a northeast Georgia community, where a proposed poultry rendering plant has residents up in arms about the potential fouling of the Broad River, a source of water and recreation for Royston and nearby communities. Read more.