5-21 news: Poultry growers want processors to pay more
Mike Weaver, president of the Contract Poultry Growers Association of the Virginias, said that the current system places most of the responsibility with growers to pay rising costs for raising flocks, upgrading plants and equipment.
“A lot of growers are going bankrupt,” he told Bloomberg news service, and he is asking the U.S. government to help. He is speaking at a poultry industry workshop coordinated by the Agriculture and Justice departments.
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