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Document and Entity Information - USD ($)
 12 Months Ended
Oct. 03, 2020
Mar. 28, 2020
Document Annual Report true  
Document Period End Date Oct. 03, 2020  
Document Type 10-K/A  
Document Transition Report false  
Entity File Number 001-14704  
Entity Registrant Name TYSON FOODS, INC.  
Entity Incorporation, State or Country Code DE  
Entity Address, Address Line One 2200 West Don Tyson Parkway,  
Entity Address, City or Town Springdale,  
Entity Address, State or Province AR  
City Area Code (479)  
Entity Tax Identification Number 71-0225165  
Entity Address, Postal Zip Code 72762-6999  
Local Phone Number 290-4000  
Title of 12(b) Security Class A Common Stock  
Entity Listing, Par Value Per Share $ 0.10  
Trading Symbol TSN  
Security Exchange Name NYSE  
Entity Well-known Seasoned Issuer Yes  
Entity Voluntary Filers No  
Entity Current Reporting Status Yes  
Entity Interactive Data Current Yes  
ICFR Auditor Attestation Flag true  
Entity Filer Category Large Accelerated Filer  
Entity Small Business false  
Entity Emerging Growth Company false  
Entity Shell Company false  
Entity Central Index Key 0000100493  
Current Fiscal Year End Date --10-03  
Document Fiscal Year Focus 2020  
Document Fiscal Period Focus FY  
Amendment Flag true  
Amendment Description Tyson Foods, Inc. (collectively, the “Company,” “we,” “us,” “our,” “Tyson Foods” or “Tyson”) (NYSE: TSN) is filing this Amendment No. 1 on Form 10-K/A (this “Amendment") to our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 3, 2020, which was filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) on November 16, 2020 (the “Original Form 10-K”) to make certain changes, as described below. The Company recently completed an investigation relating to one of its cattle suppliers and determined that this supplier made misrepresentations regarding the number of cattle the supplier had purchased on behalf of the Company's Beef segment. This misappropriation of Company funds by the supplier caused the Company to overstate live cattle inventory in its previously issued annual and interim financial statements. The Company has evaluated the materiality of the misstatements in live cattle inventory and has concluded that they did not, individually or in the aggregate, result in a material misstatement of the Company’s previously issued consolidated financial statements. However, the Company determined it would revise its consolidated financial statements to correct the recording of live cattle inventory in the periods impacted.Due to the discovery of the misrepresentations by the supplier, the Company re-evaluated the effectiveness of the Company’s internal control over financial reporting (“ICFR”) and identified a material weakness in the Company’s ICFR. As a result, the Company is filing this Amendment to restate management's assessment of the Company’s ICFR and its disclosure controls and procedures to indicate that they were not effective as of October 3, 2020 because of the identification of a material weakness in ICFR. The Company’s independent registered public accounting firm, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (“PwC”), has also restated its opinion on the Company’s ICFR to state that the Company’s ICFR as of October 3, 2020 was not effective. This Amendment also reflects the revision of our previously issued financial statements for the fiscal years ended 2020, 2019 and 2018, as well as relevant unaudited interim financial information for the quarterly periods in fiscal 2020 and 2019, to correctly state live cattle inventory described above. For a more detailed description of this revision, refer to the section entitled "Revision" in Part II, Item 8, Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements, Note 1: Business and Summary of Accounting Policies.Item 6, Item 7, Item 8 and Item 9A of Part II of the Original Form 10-K are hereby deleted in their entirety and replaced with the Item 6, Item 7, Item 8 and Item 9A included herein. Part IV, Item 15, “Exhibits and Financial Statement Schedules,” also has been amended as required by Rule 12b-15 under the Securities Act of 1934, as amended, to provide new currently dated certifications by the Company’s Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer pursuant to Sections 302 and 906 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002. The certifications are attached to this Amendment as Exhibits 31.1, 31.2, 32.1 and 32.2. In addition, the Company is filing a new consent of PwC. Accordingly, Item 15 of Part IV of the Original Form 10-K is hereby amended to reflect the filing of the new consent.Except as described above, this Amendment does not amend, update or change any other items or disclosures in the Original Form 10-K and does not purport to reflect any information or events subsequent to the filing thereof. As such, this Amendment speaks only as of the date the Original Form 10-K was filed, and the Company has not undertaken herein to amend, supplement or update any information contained in the Original Form 10-K to give effect to any subsequent events. Accordingly, this Amendment should be read in conjunction with the Original Form 10-K and any subsequent filings with the SEC.  
Class A [Member]    
Entity Public Float   $ 16,867,056,474
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding 294,125,924  
Class B [Member]    
Entity Public Float   $ 606,699
Entity Common Stock, Shares Outstanding 70,010,355