5-24 news: Attorney General hears from poultry growers
Fifty-seven-year-old Gary Staples of Steele raises birds for Pilgrim's Pride, one of the nation's biggest poultry companies. He says farmers are seeing poultry companies demand more but pay less, AP reports.
Staples and other farmers said they have been putting up with more demands and smaller payments from the poultry companies. In some regions, farmers only have one or two potential buyers, so it's hard to make demands. Staples owes more than $1 million on his farm, and he doesn't want to upset Pilgrim's Pride.