Poultry Producers Love Corn Growers
Posted: January 29, 2009
Corn growers took a lot of flack from the poultry industry last year over the increase in ethanol production but at least poultry producers still recognize the important relationship they have with those who grow their feed.
I am at the International Poultry Expo in Atlanta this week and I spoke with Tom Hensley, president of Fieldale Farms in Baldwin, Georgia who presented “The Industry Outlook: An Executive Management Perspective” at the expo. While he believes that increased ethanol production has hurt the poultry industry, he says “We love our corn growers, without them we don’t exist – chickens can’t eat anything but corn.”
He does believe that corn prices will go down this year and that eventually there will be some equilibrium between the use of corn for ethanol and feed.
Listen to a brief interview with Hensley here:
