News / Starvation threat to chickens prompts emergency delivery order to UP

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For the second time in seven months the US Surface Transportation Board (STB) has issued an emergency service order to rail operator Union Pacific (UP) to deliver urgently needed feed after delays were putting the lives of millions of chickens and thousands of cattle at risk.

Foster Farms, one of the biggest US poultry producers which processes about a million chickens every day, as well as turkeys and cattle, filed a petition for an emergency service order on 29 December, citing “substantial, ...