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DESCRIPTION OF BUSINESS AND BASIS OF PRESENTATION - Additional Information (Details) bird / WK in Millions, lb in Billions | 9 Months Ended |
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Sep. 24, 2017 employee bird / WK state grower country lb | Sep. 08, 2017 employee bird / WK
Business Acquisition [Line Items] |  |
Number of countries in which entity exports products | country | 85 |
Number of states in which entity operates | state | 14 |
Number of employees | employee | 52,000 |
Maximum processing capacity of employees per week (in birds per week) (more than) | bird / WK | 45.2 |
Maximum annual processing capacity of employees (in pounds) (more than) | lb | 12.8 |
Number of contract growers | grower | 5,100 |
Percentage of beneficial ownership by holding company | 78.60% |
Moy Park |  |
Business Acquisition [Line Items] |  |
Number of employees | employee |  | 10,100
Maximum processing capacity of employees per week (in birds per week) (more than) | bird / WK |  | 6.0
Percentage of equity acquired |  | 100.00%

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- Definition Percentage of voting equity interests acquired at the acquisition date in the business combination. + References Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef -Publisher FASB -Name Accounting Standards Codification -Topic 805 -SubTopic 10 -Section 50 -Paragraph 2 -Subparagraph (c) -URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=79982066&loc=d3e1392-128463 + Details
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