By CHRISTOPHER WALLJASPER
Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting. 

Poultry growers lean heavily on government-backed loans

 

December 16, 2018



After 20 years, Mississippi chicken farmer Kevin Kemp is getting out of the chicken business.

He raised millions of pounds of chicken since 1996, alongside his father and brother. But Kemp said even though he's done well as a poultry grower, raising chickens is "not all it's cracked up to be."

"The chicken industry has been good to a lot of people around here," Kemp said. "It just got to the point where I didn't enjoy raising chickens, because you had to put up with too much crap from the integrator."

By "integrator," Kemp means the big poultry companies, which deliver chickens to farmers a...



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