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Judge rules against Pure Prairie Poultry

A Wisconsin judge has ruled against a defunct poultry company that didn’t supply feed to their contracted growers.

Buffalo County Judge Thomas Clark found Charles City, Iowa based Pure Prairie Poultry guilty of thirty counts of mistreatment of animals.  Pure Prairie Poultry owned the chickens raised on contract farms and was responsible for delivering feed, which they failed to do in October of 2024.  As a result, some farms were giving away thousands of chickens.  Prosecutors say hundreds of chickens also starved to death.

Pure Prairie Poultry was fined $13,575 Tuesday, but the bankrupt company is unlikely to pay.

Pure Prairie Poultry went out of business after receiving nearly 39-million dollars in USDA loans.  More than 2 million chickens and 50 farmers across Iowa, Minnesota, and Wisconsin were affected by the company’s actions.