More than 7,900 retail stores carry the new items

Dale T. Smith & Sons mulls $7.5 million project.

Ready-to-cook weight totaled 3.68 million lbs.

January placements increased 9 percent.

Efforts to avoid closing the Brawley, Calif., plant fall short.

Eggs set climb 1 percent.

The company contracted with Rancho Feeding to process some cattle.

Poults placed drop 5 percent in January.

Lawsuit claims chickens are treated no differently than other mass-produced chickens on the market.

Dale T. Smith & Sons to relocate to Idaho from Utah.