U.S. rules proposed for poultry industry hatch clashing views
Posted: October 23, 2011 at 4:04 a.m.
Dwain Asbill of Watts, Okla., is a poultry farmer for Tyson Foods Inc. of Springdale and built two new poultry houses last year, bringing his total to eight. The new houses hold 31,000 birds.
Tommy Choate of El Dorado said he didn’t know a thing about the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration when he borrowed more than $1 million to get into poultry farming in 2005.
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You and I bailed out Pilgrim's Pride growers to the tune of $60-million when the company went bankrupt and was bought by a Brazilian corporation. The U.S,. Agricultture Dept. paid about $12-million to Arkansas PP growers. Is this a great country or what?
E.B.
Oklahoma
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