The Importance of Farmers and Animals
We want farmers to be successful.
We’ve been working with independent poultry farmers on a contract basis since the late 1940s. The average farmer has been raising chickens for Tyson Foods for 15 years. Some farm families have been raising chickens for us for three generations. We provide the birds, feed and technical advice, while farmers provide the farm, housing and care. It’s been a relationship we believe works well for both the farmer and the company to increase efficiency and quality, while maintaining affordable prices for consumers. If farmers succeed, we succeed.
We share farmer stories to honor what they do.
We are committed to the proper treatment of farm animals.
Caring about animals and delivering excellence in animal welfare is part of our internal culture. Every day, we have more than 50 animal welfare specialists who come to work with the purpose of ensuring the safety of the animals in our supply chain. We also have an Animal Welfare Advisory Panel that includes experts across academia, producers and scientists. Our goal is to accelerate progress and lead the industry in animal experience research and innovation, while also advancing transparency.
Our animal experience research looks at living conditions, environmental enrichments, lighting, nutrition, growth and litter management.
We know that consumers want to know where their food comes from, and we’re committed to transparency. Our industry leading third-party audit program, FarmCheck, ensures that livestock and poultry suppliers are monitored for proper animal access to food and water, a comfortable environment, human-animal interaction and worker training. We’ve also implemented the U.S. meat industry’s most expansive third-party Remote Video Auditing (RVA) system to assist in monitoring live bird handling during catching and in our poultry plants, to ensure birds are handled in a humane manner as they are transported to our facilities.
We are passionate about making a positive impact in the lives of the animals and we are dedicated to becoming the leader in animal welfare, research and transparency.
To learn more about contract poultry farming, visit https://www.chickencheck.in/faq/chicken-contract-growers/.