Arkansas-based Tyson Foods Speaks on Poultry to Agriculture Officials. (Originated from Tulsa World, Okla.)

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News,  June, 1994  by Lee, Mark

Tags: FARMERS, T-shirts, Tyson Foods Inc.

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Jun. 15--When Don Tyson views a western Oklahoma wheat field, he sees Oreo cookies, and when he views an Arkansas cotton farm, he sees T-shirts. "You can't make any money out of wheat. You have to make something else out of it. Farmers have to be responsible for their own marketing," said Tyson, chairman and chief executive of Tyson Foods, the world's largest poultry growing and processing company, based in Springdale, Ark.

Tyson took the idea of enhanced food processing and grew the chicken company his father founded into the nation's fourth largest meat processor. Tyson ...

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