My name is Reid Phifer, and I contracted with Cuddy Foods to grow heavy Tom turkeys in early 1986. Once I signed THEIR contract, I immediately saw differences in what they said my income would be versus my actual income.

I found the prospectus numbers Cuddy Foods furnished my lender in contractual form to be erroneous. This is when I began understanding how poultry companies use inaccurate numbers to coerce people into unfair contracts, enabling them to get their poultry grown cheaply. I immediately joined the NC Contract Poultry Growers’ Association to fight for fairness in poultry contracts, an undertaking I have now been involved with for 37 years.