The Surface Transportation Board has ordered Union Pacific to improve its service to chicken farms in California.
Foster Poultry Farms, a chicken grower and processor, told STB last Wednesday that since February, it has had challenges getting the animal feed it needs from the Midwest to the company’s facilities in Traver and Turlock, Calif.
UP’s service failures “have resulted in numerous instances where Foster Farms has suspended its production and distribution of feed for tens of thousands of...