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Midwest chicken farmers struggle to feed flocks after sudden closure of processor

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Pure Prairie Poultry shuttered its Charles City , Iowa , plant after filing for bankruptcy last month .

The Minnesota company provided farmers with chicks and feed to raise until the birds were slaughtered.

After Pure Prairie closed, checks and chicken feed for farmers raising the birds dried up.

The Iowa Department of Agriculture earlier this month pledged to feed and help care for about 1.3 million chickens at 14 Iowa farms.