Shuttered Iowa poultry plant leaves birds unfed, producers uncertain. 10/16/24 6:04 AM By Noah Wicks. ... Some 50 poultry growers held contracts with Pure Prairie, based in Charles City, Iowa.

Iowa agriculture officials plan to introduce legislation in response to a case where a bankrupt poultry company left the state with more than a million chickens that couldn’t be sold.

Minnesota-based Pure Praire Poultry closed its processing plant in Charles City, Iowa. Wisconsin State Veterinarian letter to Pure Prairie Poultry (Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and ...

Iowa takes emergency action to care for 1.3 million chickens after ... a Minnesota company that filed for bankruptcy last month after trying to restart a Charles City poultry processing plant. ...

The plant and other assets were sold to a bank that was a creditor to the defunct poultry processor, as well as a former company board member.

Following the sale of the chicken processing plant Pure Prairie Poultry two weeks ago, officials in Charles City are speaking out about the ongoing problems the company has caused the city.

It cost the state of Iowa about $2.3 million to maintain and ultimately depopulate more than 1.3 million healthy chickens that were abandoned by a former Minnesota-based poultry company in October ...