Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 09:06:53 -0400
From: “Jeannette Beranger”
Subject: RE: Chicken plant in Pittsboro
Regarding the chicken plant in Pittsboro, if the plant that is being referred to is the JBF Processing plant on Jay Shambly road then folks need to know a few things about poultry processing. First, this plant is an extremely rare commodity in the farming community on a nation wide level. Lack of access to processing is often the reason there are entire regions in the US where farmers can’t think of raising poultry to market. (What, a farmer can’t raise a chicken?????) Not too many folks outside of the farming community realize that it’s not a simple thing for a farmer to raise and market poultry outside of them becoming a commercial producer that uses large houses for their birds. Unless you are an industrial farm, it’s not so easy.
