An attorney says the loss of a Tyson Foods poultry processing plant in southeast Missouri has been costly to local farmers and the company should be held accountable.
Russ Oliver with the Oliver Law Firm represents four poultry farmers who are suing Tyson to recoup losses from the closure. Read the lawsuit. Oliver tells Brownfield farmers made million-dollar investments to update to poultry barns, provided labor, land and equipment with the promise the facility would stay open and “the farms are tied to a couple of million dollars of debt they have no way to pay, because there’s no poultry producer in the area.”
He also says there was a lack of communication from Tyson Foods to farmers about the closure with the exception of a press release issued to the public in early August.
