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BUSINESS SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC REPORTING (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 30, 2012
Segment Reporting [Abstract] |
Schedule of Revenue from External Customers and Long-Lived Assets, by Geographical Areas [Table Text Block] | Net sales to customers by customer location and long-lived assets are as follows:
|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010
|  | (In thousands)
Net sales to customers by customer location: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
United States |  | $ | 6,600,206 |  | $ | 6,108,797 |  | $ | 5,740,563
Mexico |  |  | 988,712 |  |  | 827,186 |  |  | 669,870
Asia |  |  | 262,455 |  |  | 353,368 |  |  | 223,240
North America |  |  | 111,305 |  |  | 88,900 |  |  | 82,026
Europe |  |  | 79,101 |  |  | 82,261 |  |  | 130,635
Africa |  |  | 62,642 |  |  | 56,741 |  |  | 23,363
South America |  |  | 13,775 |  |  | 14,224 |  |  | 8,252
Pacific |  |  | 3,186 |  |  | 4,221 |  |  | 3,680
Total |  | $ | 8,121,382 |  | $ | 7,535,698 |  | $ | 6,881,629
|  | December 30, 2012 |  | December 25, 2011
|  | (In thousands)
Long-lived assets(a): |  |  |  |  |  |
United States |  | $ | 1,106,482 |  | $ | 1,157,410
Mexico |  |  | 83,439 |  |  | 84,342
Total |  | $ | 1,189,921 |  | $ | 1,241,752
(a) |  | For this disclosure, we exclude financial instruments, deferred tax assets and intangible assets in accordance with ASC 280-10-50-41, Segment Reporting. Long-lived assets, as used in ASC 280-10-50-41, implies hard assets that cannot be readily removed.
Schedule of Product Information [Table Text Block] | The following table sets forth, for the periods beginning with 2010, net sales attributable to each of our primary product lines and markets served with those products. We based the table on our internal sales reports and their classification of product types.
|  | 2012 |  | 2011 |  | 2010
U.S. chicken: |  | (In thousands)
Prepared chicken |  | $ | 2,239,289 |  | $ | 2,135,337 |  | $ | 2,262,107
Fresh chicken |  |  | 3,583,854 |  |  | 3,160,429 |  |  | 2,834,972
Export and other chicken by-products |  |  | 817,723 |  |  | 808,038 |  |  | 581,303
Total U.S. chicken |  |  | 6,640,866 |  |  | 6,103,804 |  |  | 5,678,382
Mexico chicken |  |  | 758,023 |  |  | 720,333 |  |  | 615,433
Total chicken |  |  | 7,398,889 |  |  | 6,824,137 |  |  | 6,293,815
Other products: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
U.S. |  |  | 608,619 |  |  | 674,923 |  |  | 558,675
Mexico |  |  | 113,874 |  |  | 36,638 |  |  | 29,139
Total other products |  |  | 722,493 |  |  | 711,561 |  |  | 587,814
Total net sales |  | $ | 8,121,382 |  | $ | 7,535,698 |  | $ | 6,881,629

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