Ex-Official: Poultry Contract Revisions Needed

Posted: June 23, 2012

By CANDACE SIPOS

J. Dudley Butler (right), former administrator of the Grain Inspection Packers and Stockyards Administration, speaks to poultry growers at the Plains District Community Center in Timberville Thursday. (Photo by Michael Reilly)
TIMBERVILLE — Dennis Cubbage remembers when his father averaged 21 cents a chicken — in 1976.
 
Cubbage’s flock earned him only 15 cents per bird last year.
 
“I get five cents a pound if I’m...

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