"This is all part of our ongoing effort to operate more efficiently in light of the industry conditions that we're all facing, which is the higher feed costs and the oversupply of chicken," Ray Atkinson, director of corporate communications for Pilgrim's Pride, told Meatingplace.com.

The Franconia plant will continue to produce several types of chicken salads, Atkinson confirmed, but will move the production of its individually quick frozen items to other company facilities.

"We're moving our IQF lines to some of our other plants because there's more capacity in those plants," Atkinson said.

A total of 110 hourly positions and six salaried ones are being cut from the plant's staff of 217 workers. The company in August announced that it will idle a chicken processing plant in Clinton, Ark., as well as a further-processing facility in Bossier City, La.

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