The Iowa Department of Agriculture destroyed about 1.3 million chickens it had assumed care for earlier this month after failing in efforts to find a buyer for the birds, the state said Friday.
Pure Prairie Poultry ran out of funds to care for over a million chickens across Minnesota, Iowa and Wisconsin. Farmers and state ag departments are left scrambling. Hundreds of thousands of ...
Pure Prairie Poultry shuttered its ... provided farmers with chicks and feed to raise until the birds were ready to be slaughtered and prepared for sale at the northeastern Iowa processing center.