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High feed prices forcing closure of Turklock chicken producer

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McClatchy Newspapers

TURLOCK, Calif. — High feed-corn costs will force a premium chicken producer to close early next year, putting about 185 people in the Northern San Joaquin Valley out of work.

The company, Fulton Valley Farms, has been sold to a Chinese buyer that does not plan to keep it going at least in the near future, Chief Executive Officer Andrew Carlson said Oct. 4.

"(Feed) prices have disallowed us from running our business model like we would like to run our business model," he said.

The Turlock-based company, which also goes by Central Coast Farms, raises poultry. . .

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