Source: Chris Torres, FARM PROGRESS, 6/26/19


In June 2018, the last broilers were put on a tractor trailer and shipped out from Dunmore Heath Farm in Cordova, Md. For Vicki and Mark Sump, who have been raising broilers on the farm since the late ’80s, it was the end of a tough road. For two years they were raising broiler chickens for Perdue Farms but had their number of flocks reduced to two a year. They once grew five flocks of chickens a year and had the security of knowing they would get a steady paycheck for their work. But their security blanket was gone.

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