Items Tagged with 'Sanderson Farms'

In this opinion piece, J. Dudley Butler, who was an administrator for the former Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, argues that the viability of rural America and its farms and ranches is at stake in the election.

Three poultry companies have agreed to pay $84.8 million to compensate processing plant workers under agreements with the Justice Department that would allow a major acquisition to go forward and could spell trouble for the industry’s “tournament system” of paying growers.

Cargill and Continental Grain completed their acquisition of poultry company Sanderson Farms on Friday, finishing a process that has been heavily scrutinized by the Justice Department.