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Iowa kills 1.3M chickens after sudden closure of processor Pure Prairie Poultry
Agriculture Dive ^ | Oct. 28, 2024 | Sarah Zimmerman

Posted on 10/29/2024 6:05:50 AM PDT by slag

Iowa has culled approximately 1.3 million chickens after being unable to find a market for the birds following the sudden closure of Midwest poultry processor Pure Prairie Poultry, which left many farmers stranded with the prospect of lost income.

Last year, Pure Prairie had been awarded a $38.7 million loan guarantee and a nearly $7 million grant from the USDA to reopen and expand the Iowa processing plant.

(Excerpt) Read more at agriculturedive.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agribusiness; agriculture; chicken; food; foodsupply; government; iowa; loanguarantees; meat; modernization; processingplant; processors; pureprairie; pureprairiepoultry; renovations; socialism; usda; waste
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1 posted on 10/29/2024 6:05:50 AM PDT by slag
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To: slag

What a waste.........................


2 posted on 10/29/2024 6:07:11 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegals are put up in 5 Star hotels....................)
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To: slag

Alert The Pure Prairie League.


3 posted on 10/29/2024 6:09:49 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: slag
--- "...Pure Prairie had been awarded a $38.7 million loan guarantee and a nearly $7 million grant from the USDA to reopen and expand the Iowa processing plant."

Translation: The government, not private capital. created the loss and assigns the loss to the taxpayer.

Cull flocks or herds? Nope. Time to cull government's "loan guarantees' and "grants."

Time to cull governments at all levels.

4 posted on 10/29/2024 6:10:18 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: slag

Criminal waste of resources.


5 posted on 10/29/2024 6:11:09 AM PDT by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: slag

Inept marketing on behalf of the Iowa government “workers”.


6 posted on 10/29/2024 6:11:36 AM PDT by yldstrk
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To: slag

“ Last year, Pure Prairie had been awarded a $38.7 million loan guarantee and a nearly $7 million grant from the USDA to reopen and expand the Iowa processing plant.”
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Somebody(-ies) very POLITICALLY CONNECTED has plundered the American taxpayers with the assistance of cooperative DEEP STATE employees.


7 posted on 10/29/2024 6:14:47 AM PDT by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA-PRO-MAX.)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

During sane times, a gallows would be constructed, and those responsible hanged at noon today.
Since we live in insane times, no one will be held responsible, and no one will try to recover the taxpayer’s money.


8 posted on 10/29/2024 6:14:50 AM PDT by Fireone ("and dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter." G. Washington 1783)
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To: slag
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9 posted on 10/29/2024 6:14:54 AM PDT by jonatron (Land of the Free, Home of the Brave)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time

Still trying to find where in that pesky constitution thingie, that the fed was granted the right to regulate chickens


10 posted on 10/29/2024 6:15:00 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: slag

Iowa is the top chicken grower in the US. Over 45 million annually.


11 posted on 10/29/2024 6:19:09 AM PDT by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: slag

What happens when you give easy government loans to large favored companies to process chickens?

Just guessing here: You encourage processors to hire illegals, skip safety protocols, wipe out any remaining private processors who are not large enough to compete, and prevent entrepreneurs from founding new or innovative processing companies?


12 posted on 10/29/2024 6:19:43 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: slag

How the hell does one kill 1.3 million chickens? Or deal with them afterwards? The horror. Not a job I would wish on anyone.


13 posted on 10/29/2024 6:19:57 AM PDT by montag813
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To: joe fonebone

I don’t know if it applies here, but the Commerce Clause gives Congress the power to regulate interstate commerce. And that power is often abused, because so many things can potentially cross state lines now.

Justice Clarence Thomas once remarked that if the Commerce Clause is not interpreted in a limited manner, Congress could regulate literally everything.


14 posted on 10/29/2024 6:27:45 AM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: slag

Another Bidenomics success story?


15 posted on 10/29/2024 6:30:00 AM PDT by antidemoncrat
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To: joe fonebone
--- "Still trying to find where in that pesky constitution thingie, that the fed was granted the right to regulate chickens"

Silly you. Those jackasses -- the mascot of the Democrat Party is a jackass -- don't refer to an actual Constitution, when they have themselves to adore.

Besides this is all about big money for the "temporary" CEOs and such that populate the "guaranteed loans" and "grants" companies that are erected only to fail. Pure Prairie's top cats were fat cats for awhile. "Search salaries for the company to see more. From Obama and Chu's Solyndra -- remember the "future" ? -- the scams are erected and then knocked down only to be erected again.

Corruption has never needed recourse to the Constitution.

16 posted on 10/29/2024 6:38:06 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: dfwgator

Vince Gill hayd already been summoned


17 posted on 10/29/2024 6:38:27 AM PDT by cport (How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
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To: slag

Communist government always destroy the food supply when attempting to solidify their revolutionary takeovers. We are ruled by marxist scum.


18 posted on 10/29/2024 6:40:41 AM PDT by wildcard_redneck (He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.f)
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To: slag

Mind boggling waste and meaningless destruction


19 posted on 10/29/2024 6:41:06 AM PDT by ZULU (Remember: ABBEY GATE, Kate Steinle, Joscelyn Nungary, Rachel Morin and Laken Riley. )
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To: slag
"O, the poultry!"

Regards,

20 posted on 10/29/2024 6:51:06 AM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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