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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION (Details)	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 28, 2014 segment grower country lb state employee
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
Number of countries in which entity exports products	80
Number of states in which entity operates	12
Number of employees	35,400
Maximum processing capacity of employees per week (in birds)	34,000,000
Maximum annual processing capacity of employees (in pounds)	10,000,000,000
Number of contract growers	3,750
Percentage of beneficial ownership by holding company	75.50%
Number of reportable segments	1

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Maximum number of birds produced in a week by the employees as per processing capacity of the entity.

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Represents the number of contract growers who supply poultry for the operations.

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The number of countries the entity exports products as of the balance sheet date.

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Number of persons employed by the Entity.

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Percentage of beneficial ownership by holding company.

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Number of segments reported by the entity. A reportable segment is a component of an entity for which there is an accounting requirement to report separate financial information on that component in the entity's financial statements.

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The number of states the entity operates in as of the balance sheet date.

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