FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- A long-time poultry processor is shutting down after over 47 years of operation in the Valley. For several decades, Zacky Farms has processed turkey and chicken products ...

At the time, Zacky’s debt was estimated at $50 million to $100 million. Record high feed prices were taking a toll on the company. It was spending about $1.8 million weekly to feed 2.5 million ...

Rick Potter, Zacky Farms complex field supervisor, walks among some of the 100,000 turkeys (16,000 in this barn) at the Zacky Farms American Grown farm near Kerman.

Foster said that Zacky complied with the terms of their agreement for 11 years, but that Zacky began selling branded chicken again around the time of its October bankruptcy filing.

What experience has prepared you to take over leadership of the world’s fifth-largest economy? Spending my life in and around the agriculture and food industries in California. Having been vice ...