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Pilgrims mayfield ky3/27/2023 ![]() Photos on Twitter showed yellow corn visible from the tops of bins that lost their roofs. That’s enough corn to fill two Panamax vessels - each ship the length of two football fields. Mayfield Grain Company, a grain handler, had roofs pulled off of parts of a storage system that holds 6 million bushels of grain in Mayfield, Quarles said. ![]() Some small feed mills have damage with indefinite timelines,” said Andrew Jackson, broker at Producers Hedge, in Lancaster, Kentucky. corn stocks in December 2020, the USDA said. Department of Agriculture data, though the state is not a top grain producer. Mayfield is in Kentucky’s top county for agricultural sales, accounting for 6% of the state’s total farm sales, according to U.S. Pilgrim’s Pride, which is mostly owned by Brazilian meatpacker JBS SA, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. President Joe Biden will visit the state on Wednesday to survey the damage.Ī Pilgrim’s Pride hatchery in Mayfield, Kentucky, that supplied chickens to local farmers was wiped out, Quarles said.ĭamage to the hatchery “automatically triggers a multi-month delay in the processing and raising of chickens because the hatchery simply is not there anymore to supply the farmers,” Quarles said. Environmental Protection Agency to properly kill and dispose of injured chickens housed in barns that were destroyed, he said. Poultry is Kentucky’s top agricultural commodity, and at least a dozen chicken barns collapsed, Quarles said. The destruction in the Midwest could further raise already high chicken prices and add to supply-chain headaches that have made it difficult for farmers to replace tractor parts. “We have a 200-mile swath through Kentucky that has pulled-down grain systems, destroyed chicken hatcheries and of course blown-over barns,” said Ryan Quarles, Kentucky’s agriculture commissioner. CHICAGO (Reuters) – A Deere & Co dealership and a Pilgrim’s Pride Corp chicken hatchery were destroyed when deadly tornadoes swept through Kentucky on Friday, while silos holding millions of bushels of corn suffered damage, the state’s agriculture commissioner said on Monday.Īt least 64 people, including six children, lost their lives in Kentucky after a raft of tornadoes tore through six states.
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