Turkey - chicken contracts getting pulled

Rumor is Butterball is terminating contracts around here, along with chicken contracts out of our county,, thats a huge hit for the close economy- one guy just sunk 2.5 million in a set up and now has nothing to put in the buildings ,, sad deal

I know thats what I thought, ive just heard of this - trying to get more info

Let's hope this is only a temporary thing having to do with the closing of processing faculties because of a shortage of workers.

Im sure theres more to it , they cant just let you high and dry,,

thendrix wrote:

I don't know how it is there or with Butterball but with our contract Pilgrim can't just pull out without we've done something to break the contract. They can leave but they would have to pay compensation.

A lot of food suppliers are having issues. Even the potato companies. They have to much inventory for the large consumer ie restaurants, schools ectra and not enough for the small family consumer. Now they can't properly staff to repackage because of distancing and what not

We are under attack by our own government sure looks that way. Until we start standing up for our rights they will keep right on doing it. Randy

Doug have you heard anything else? I have heard of some temporary plant closures around here due to the virus and sales being down but nothing permanent. Mostly it's the plants that supply fast food. And thanks guys for your support. I'll get back if I hear anything about this

"Farming is a business that makes a Las Vegas craps table look like a regular paycheck" Ronald Reagan

Dad says when he was a kid my great grandma told him you will see a day when people starve to death with bushel baskets full of money.

It's kinda happening in a way. Maybe not bushels of money but credit cards. The people that are so far removed from the farm and depend on big companies an gov to feed them.

I cant find anything about Butterball on the internet.. No new news ? as BOSS said, some of the PACKAGING is getting to be a problem as Schools and Restaurants buy in 100# bags and pallets... Not the same as grocery stores... Other than that, have not heard.

Like them all, but love the "B"s.

It's in the Bible.....

No local news or rumors but did see where Seaboard Foods , Butterballs 50 % owner lost 21 million on them last year-

Edited by DougG - 27 Apr 2020 at 8:45am

DougG wrote:

No local news or rumors but did see where Seaboard Foods , Butterballs 50 % owner lost 21 million on them last year-

Nobody going to convert that to denarius for me. LOL

When this crud expanded you could see where food supplies were not considered, plus the fact that processors for some foodstuffs were set up for x-amount institutional and x-amount consumer packaging and we were gonna get into trouble.

My brother takes the dairy products delivered to his school and delivers them as purchased under contract, with a school mini van. Many of those kids get their best meal of the day while at schooland management approved of these home deliveries as they were bound to the purchasing contracts anyway. Let them know what time it was coming and left it on their doorsteps so no direct contact.

Makes a fella wonder why someone in the gov't. did not see this coming as packagers said they could not increase their consumer packaging enough because of a lack of that type of equipment.

Could the institutional size packages be delivered to the food banks where they could have worked right out of the back of the large reefer truck? Divide it up and tell participants that they had to bring their own containers and work off st./stl. work benches as it came out of the reefers? No, not always practical but you would think at least milk, cheeses, butter and yogurt could be divided up safely/efficiently as ambient temps are still somewhat cool as compared to peak summer temps.

Meat issues with workers at the plants is entirely different but it seems they could have gotten in front of the dairy products vs. dumping.

Seems lines for food at the food banks are quite long and it would not take very long to empty a reefer if it was organised.

Vent/rant over.

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