Contract growers demand higher per-pound pay

The Contract Poultry Growers Association of the Virginias, which includes poultry and egg producers in West Virginia and Virginia, is calling on consumers to demand that poultry processors pay higher prices to farmers.
In a statement, the association argues for a $0.02 per pound increase on the price that processors pay to farmers, up from an average of $0.05, according to the association. The statement says that the average per-pound price farmers were paid in 1985 was $0.0485 in non-adjusted dollars and that, adjusted for inflation, real pay has decreased by more than half.