Poultry integrator files for bankruptcy in US

In the US a poultry integrator  business has filed for bankruptcy, Allen's Family Foods is struggling after 91 years as a poultry integrator, the CEO and President Robert Turley has set in motion 60 days of business restructuring and industry change. Turley said "the increase in corn from US$3.50 (€2.453) to US$8.50 (€5.958) was to blame, with poultry feed being it's highest input cost".

The company employs 2,273 people and packs about eight million pounds of poultry a week. Allen's Family Foods own 28 grow out farms and has contracts with 271 producers between Delmarva and North Carolina. a purchase agreement with Millsboro-based Mountaire Farms would buy Allen hatcheries in Seaford and Dagsboro, the Seaford administrative office, a Seaford feed mill, processing plants in Harbeson and Cordova and a rendering plant called JCR Enterprises in Linkwood. Read more ...

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