The incentive package would give Sanderson Farms land valued at $1.2 million and annual cash payments worth nearly 40 percent of the property taxes paid by the company on all buildings, improvements and equipment each year for 15 years.
The U.S. chicken industry may become unprofitable in the fourth quarter because feed costs have surged as a drought wilts cornfields across the Midwest.
Mexico's economy ministry has accused the United States of engaging in price dumping with its chicken exports but added that it would not take action for the time being.
Representatives of Foster Farms, along with university faculty, students and community leaders, broke ground on the new Foster Farms Poultry Education and Research Facility.