Perdue Farms has delivered a $25,000 grant to support the Foodbank of Southeastern Virginia and the Eastern Shore school backpack program and 10,000 pounds of nutritious chicken products to feed food insecure families in rural Virginia.
West Liberty, Iowa-based West Liberty Foods, the community's largest business, announced that it is giving the West Liberty School District a monetary donation of $500,000 to support its new athletic complex.
A $2,500 grant from the Franklin P. and Arthur W. Perdue Foundation will help support the construction of a duck pond at Hope Springs Farm in Hershey, PA, to enhance education about environmental preservation and the importance of protecting wildlife.
As part of a commitment to environmental stewardship, Perdue Farms associates recently joined Oyster Recovery Partnership (ORP) representatives to build oyster cages to support the Marylanders Grow Oysters program to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
As part of a commitment to improve quality of life in its communities, Perdue Farms has awarded The Fall Creek Community Volunteer Fire Department (FCCVFD) in East Bend, N.C. a $8,510 grant to purchase a new 1,500-foot fire hose.
Wayne Farms has announced a $500,000 donation to contribute toward a $7 million state-of-the-industry research feed mill for Mississippi State University’s Department of Poultry Science.