Pure Prairie Poultry declared bankruptcy and shut down with little notice, affecting workers at a processing plant in Iowa and contract growers in Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Farmers Union says this has left farmers in dire straits, with tens of thousands of birds to feed and no feed or compensation coming. The growers are reporting that they will have to euthanize thousands of birds because it’s too expensive to feed that many out of their own pockets.
