Chickens in North Carolina Can No Longer Afford to Eat Corn | SolveClimate.com

The price of corn reached a record $5.795 a bushel last week in Chicago as a result of U.S. mandates promoting ethanol production. That has pushed the price of feed for its chickens too high for Pilgrim's Pride Corp., the world's biggest poultry processor, which announced last week it would close a chicken plant in Siler City, North Carolina as a result.