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Chickens Starve at California Farm as Corn Shipments Run Late
- Regulator orders Union Pacific to deliver corn-laden trains
- Foster Farms grapples with animal feed shortage over past year
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Millions of chickens have gone unfed as rail disruptions delay corn shipments to a California poultry farm, according to documents that provide unique details of how one shipper has suffered from poor rail service.
Foster Farms, which processes about 1 million chickens and 12,000 turkeys every day, has said it’s had to pause some operations because of delays from Union Pacific Corp., the second-largest freight railroad in North America.