The Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship (IDALS) announced that it received permission from a court to kill approximately 1.3 million broiler chickens previously owned by a Minnesota ...
Vilsack, a former Iowa governor, said Thursday in a news conference that the $38.7 million loan guarantee and a nearly $7 million grant to reopen and expand Pure Prairie Poultry in Charles City ...
That’s after Pure Prairie Poultry said in late September that due to its bankruptcy, it could no longer afford to buy feed for its flock living on 14 Iowa farms. It’s estimated the process ...
Iowa said in court documents it learned that Pure Prairie Poultry also was unable to feed and care for about 400,000 chickens apiece in Minnesota and Wisconsin. "In Wisconsin, some of the birds ...
Congressmen Derrick Van Orden of Wisconsin, Brad Finstad from Minnesota, and Randy Feenstra of Iowa wrote a letter to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack regarding Pure Prairie Poultry’s shutdown. The ...
(ABC 6 News) — Two weeks after the closure of the Pure Prairie Poultry processing plant in Charles City, employees said they have still not been paid. Former employees said they were supposed to ...
Pure Prairie Poultry, of Minnesota, said a month ago it could not afford to feed them. The company filed for bankruptcy last month, citing between $100 million and $500 million worth of debt ...