McClatchy Newspapers
TURLOCK, Calif. — Foster Farms, which celebrated 75 years in the poultry business recently, is a relative latecomer in this city’s turkey history.
The Turlock area has been a major producer for nearly a century, with companies of various sizes turning out whole birds and other items. Foster Farms has operated here since 1982 and today employs about 1,300 people at a pair of plants, but other producers have made a mark, too.
“Turlock was always the turkey capital,” said Bill Mattos, president of the California Poultry Federation, based in Modesto. “The leaders of the. . .
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