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INCENTIVE COMPENSATION | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2017
Disclosure of Compensation Related Costs, Share-based Payments [Abstract] |
INCENTIVE COMPENSATION | INCENTIVE COMPENSATION The Company sponsors a short-term incentive plan that provides the grant of either cash or share-based bonus awards payable upon achievement of specified performance goals (the “STIP”). Full-time, salaried exempt employees of the Company and its affiliates who are selected by the administering committee are eligible to participate in the STIP. The Company has accrued $44.8 million in costs related to the STIP at December 31, 2017 related to cash bonus awards that could potentially be awarded during 2018. The Company assumed responsibility for the JFC LLC Long-Term Equity Incentive Plan dated January 1, 2014, as amended (the “JFC LTIP”) through its acquisition of GNP on January 6, 2017. The Company has accrued $3.3 million in costs related to the JFC LTIP at December 31, 2017. The Company assumed responsibility for the Moy Park Incentive Plan dated January 1, 2013, as amended (the “MPIP”) through its acquisition of Moy Park on September 8, 2017. The Company has accrued $0.6 million in costs related to the MPIP at December 31, 2017. The Company also sponsors a performance-based, omnibus long-term incentive plan that provides for the grant of a broad range of long-term equity-based and cash-based awards to the Company’s officers and other employees, members of the Board and any consultants (the “LTIP”). The equity-based awards that may be granted under the LTIP include “incentive stock options,” within the meaning of the IRC, nonqualified stock options, stock appreciation rights, restricted stock awards (“RSAs”) and restricted stock units (“RSUs”). At December 31, 2017, we have reserved approximately 4.8 million shares of common stock for future issuance under the LTIP. The following awards were outstanding during 2017:
Award Type |  | Benefit Plan |  | Awards Granted |  | Grant Date |  | Grant Date Fair Value per Award(a) |  | Vesting Condition |  | Vesting Date |  | Vesting Date Fair Value per Award(a) |  | Estimated Forfeiture Rate |  | Awards Forfeited to Date |  | Settlement Method
RSU |  | LTIP |  | 449,217 |  |  | 02/19/2014 |  | $ | 16.70 |  |  | Service |  | 12/31/2016 |  | $ | 18.99 |  |  | 13.49 | % |  | 86,458 |  |  | Stock
RSU |  | LTIP |  | 223,701 |  |  | 03/03/2014 |  | 17.18 |  |  | Performance / Service |  | 12/31/2017 |  | 31.06 |  |  | 12.34 | % |  | 53,363 |  |  | Stock
RSU | (b) | LTIP |  | 45,961 |  |  | 02/11/2015 |  | 25.87 |  |  | Service |  | 12/31/2017 |  | 31.06 |  |  | 12.34 | % |  | 10,965 |  |  | Stock
RSU |  | LTIP |  | 251,136 |  |  | 03/30/2016 |  | 25.36 |  |  | Performance / Service |  | 12/31/2019 |  |  |  | — | % |  | 251,136 |  | (d) | Stock
RSU | (b) | LTIP |  | 74,535 |  |  | 10/13/2016 |  | 20.93 |  |  | Service |  | 12/31/2016 |  | 18.99 |  |  | 13.49 | % |  | — |  |  | Stock
RSU |  | LTIP |  | 389,424 |  |  | 01/19/2017 |  | 18.38 |  |  | Performance / Service |  | (e) |  |  |  | — | % |  | — |  |  | Stock
RSU | (c) | LTIP |  | 48,586 |  |  | 02/13/2017 |  | 20.52 |  |  | Service |  | 12/31/2016 |  | 18.99 |  |  | — | % |  | — |  |  | Stock
RSU | (c) | LTIP |  | 23,469 |  |  | 02/13/2017 |  | 20.52 |  |  | Service |  | 12/31/2017 |  | 31.06 |  |  | — | % |  | 652 |  |  | Stock
(a) | The fair value of each RSU granted or vested represents the closing price of the Company’s common stock on the respective grant date or vesting date.
(b) | On February 17, 2015, the Company paid a special cash dividend to stockholders of record as of January 30, 2015 totaling $5.77 per share. On January 27, 2015, the Compensation Committee of the Company’s Board of Directors agreed to grant Dividend Equivalent Rights (“DERs”) in the form of RSUs to reflect an additional $5.77 in value for each outstanding RSU.
(c) | On May 18, 2016, the Company paid a special cash dividend to stockholders of record as of May 10, 2015 totaling $2.75 per share. On October 27, 2016, the Compensation Committee of the Company's Board of Directors agreed to grant additional RSUs to LTIP participants that were equal to the amount of the dividend that would be awarded to them had their RSUs existing as of the dividend record date been vested. The additional RSUs that were granted to the LTIP participants are subject to the same vesting requirements as the underlying RSUs granted under the LTIP.
(d) | Performance conditions associated with these awards were not satisfied. Therefore, 100% of the awards were forfeited.
(e) | The subject RSUs will vest in ratable tranches on December 31, 2018, December 31, 2019, and December 31, 2020.
Compensation costs and the income tax benefit recognized for our share-based compensation arrangements are included below:
| 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
| (In thousands)
Share-based compensation cost: |  |  |  |  |
Cost of goods sold | $ | 256 |  |  | $ | 770 |  |  | $ | 596 |
Selling, general and administrative expenses | 2,763 |  |  | 5,332 |  |  | 2,379 |
Total | $ | 3,019 |  |  | $ | 6,102 |  |  | $ | 2,975 |
Income tax benefit | $ | 1,006 |  |  | $ | 1,858 |  |  | $ | 868 |
The Company’s RSA and RSU activity is included below:
| 2017 |  | 2016 |  | 2015
| Number |  | Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value |  | Number |  | Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value |  | Number |  | Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value
| (In thousands, except weighted average fair values)
RSAs: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Outstanding at beginning of year | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | 30 |  |  | $ | 8.72 |
Granted | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Vested | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |
Forfeited | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | (30 | ) |  | 8.72 |
Outstanding at end of year | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | — |  |  | $ | — |  |  | — |  |  | $ | — |
RSUs: |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Outstanding at beginning of year | 906 |  |  | $ | 20.00 |  |  | 774 |  |  | $ | 18.78 |  |  | 1,120 |  |  | $ | 11.97 |
Granted | 461 |  |  | 18.72 |  |  | 325 |  |  | 24.35 |  |  | 428 |  |  | 21.00 |
Vested | (714 | ) |  | 18.09 |  |  | — |  |  | — |  |  | (671 | ) |  | 8.81 |
Forfeited | (264 | ) |  | 25.33 |  |  | (193 | ) |  | 24.51 |  |  | (103 | ) |  | 18.90 |
Outstanding at end of year | 389 |  |  | $ | 18.39 |  |  | 906 |  |  | $ | 20.00 |  |  | 774 |  |  | $ | 18.78 |
The total fair value of awards vested in 2017 and 2015 was $16.3 million and $22.4 million, respectively. No awards vested in 2016. At December 31, 2017, the total unrecognized compensation cost related to all nonvested awards was $7.2 million. That cost is expected to be recognized over a weighted average period of 2.13 years. Historically, we have issued new shares to satisfy award conversions.

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