Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., said it agreed to purchase a 60 percent interest in China's Shandong Xinchang Group.

Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., last week marked 50 years in poultry processing.

Why did the chicken cross the road? To get to the other side, of course. Then again, every day finds Tyson Foods’ chicken (and beef and pork) products crossing the nation and the globe en route to supermarket shelves and foodservice operators.

Why does Tyson do it? Naturally, it’s to grow and satisfy retail and foodservice customers and consumers. 

Just weeks after purchasing a majority stake in one of India's largest poultry companies, Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., acquired a 60-percent stake in one of China's largest poultry processors.

Just days after Sanderson Farms said it will delay plans for a new plant in North Carolina, Foster Farms, Livingston, Calif., said it will no longer build a poultry operation in northeastern Colorado.

Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., said it expects by October to sell the packing, feedyard and fertilizer assets of Lakeside Farm Industries Ltd.

Sanderson Farms Inc., Laurel, Miss., said it will spend $126.5 million to construct a new feed mill, hatchery and poultry processing plant in Kinston, N.C.