After a long, hard year, we are all in need of a little Christmas cheer. We continued our annual tradition this year by decking out Harrison Poultry in festive lights for all of our employees, customers and community to enjoy! Our roughly 75,000 LED lights are shining brightly and provide plenty of Christmas spirit to all of our employees and the Bethlehem community! A huge thank you to our Refrigeration Department headed up by Tony Jewell who made this spectacular show a reality! Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Happy New Year from Harrison Poultry, Inc.! https://video.wixstatic.com/video ..read more

Camp Amplify is a 100% scholarship-based summer camp in East Tennessee. The camp launched in 2018 and their goal this year was to host 150 campers and fill 25 cabins. Camp Amplify serves underprivileged youth, 8-12 years old, in the community, by treating them to a week of fun and spiritual discovery. Each year Camp Amplify relies on funding from personal and corporate sponsors to sponsor individual campers, provide camp kits with toiletry items and to “Fill-A-Cabin” which supplies the funding for six campers and two counselors. Campers never pay a dime to attend Camp Amplify. Due to the ongoi ..read more

Congratulations to our CEO, David Bleth, for being elected Chairman of the Georgia Poultry Federation for 2021-2022! What will your role entail as the chairman of the Georgia Poultry Federation? I will oversee from a board's perspective the Federation's activities and finances How long have you been a member of GPF? 12 years Do you have any specific goals for this following year? Medical insurance for our industry's growers was our biggest goal which we accomplished recently. Another is to get edible cull eggs approved for food bank distribution. Do you anticipate any challenges due to COVID ..read more

Each year the PSCA (Plan Sponsor Council of America) hosts a Signature Awards program to honor excellent retirement plan education and communications across seven categories. This year Harrison Poultry was awarded second place in the Overcoming Obstacles category. Harrison Poultry desired to raise awareness and communicate the value of our profit-sharing plan. Digital communications can be a hurdle in reaching our factory employees so we utilized print materials with catchy taglines that reflected our brand and website. Our favorite tagline was "a nest egg for your retirement" as a nod to our ..read more

“Worker safety is not something that’s new to the chicken industry,” shares Ashley Peterson, PhD and the National Chicken Council’s Senior VP of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs. “It’s something that has been part of our culture for decades.” Watch the video below, created by the National Chicken Council, to see how companies like Harrison Poultry are continuing to pursue high safety standards to keep our customers and employees safe. At Harrison, we have implemented many of the safety protocols in the video including: Physical Distancing Personal protective equipment Temperature monitoring ..read more

Congratulations to poultry immunologist, Rami Dalloul, who was recently has named the R. Harold Harrison Distinguished Professor in Poultry Science at UGA! "The R. Harold Harrison Distinguished Professorship was established through the generosity of the Luther and Susie Harrison Foundation to strengthen the CAES Department of Poultry Science. Dalloul is the first faculty member to hold the newly established professorship. Follow the link to learn more: https://newswire.caes.uga.edu/story.html?storyid=8376&story=Distinguished-Professorshipy=Distinguished-Professorship ..read more

In Fall 2021, Allen Fort, the superintendent of Taliaferro County, shared his vision with Harrison Poultry’s CEO, David Bleth, to establish a garden and green house for their school. Mr. Fort has experience in a previous school system that designed an agriculture program and believed it would benefit Taliaferro’s students and community. Harrison Poultry, Inc. strives to be leaders in the community through service and community development and was excited to collaborate with Taliaferro County Schools in a corporate sponsorship. Recently, I had the chance to chat with Taliaferro Country’s Agricu ..read more

An interview with Julieta Moore (HPI Human Resources) and her daughter, Briana Moore We are pleased to share that Briana Moore broke her own national record last month in the 25 meter shoot in Statesboro, Georgia! Last year she shot a 575/600 and this year a 582/600. Briana is preparing now for her upcoming shoots for 2023. Julieta, what is your role at the company? How long have you been at HPI? I work in Human Resources, I am part of the hiring process and orientation of new hires. I am in charge of the supply room and other daily duties such as handling Department of Labor claims and hearin ..read more

Re-post written by Lily Baucom at the Georgia Foundation for Agriculture 875 third through fifth grade students were challenged to put their science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) skills to work while exploring Georgia agriculture when the Georgia Ag Experience (GAE) recently visited their schools. The GAE, an innovative and interactive mobile classroom managed by the Georgia Foundation for Agriculture (GFA) recently spent eight days at Lincoln and Oconee County public schools taking students on a deep dive into the state’s largest economic sector with state-of-the-art STEM curriculu ..read more

The R. Harold and Patsy Harrison Foundation has recently shared that they have pledged to donate over $2.6 million to establish a Distinguished Professorship in poultry science at the University of Georgia. This donation is in addition to a pledge made earlier this year for $1 million to go toward the Poultry Science Building that is estimated to be completed by Fall 2023. Mr. Harrison, Harrison Poultry’s founder, graduated from UGA’s CAES (College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences) department in 1941 and UGA’s Poultry Science program continues today to be one of the best programs in ..read more