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Missouri firm offers $120,000 to get out of poultry litter suit
BY ROBERT J. SMITH Posted on Friday, May 15, 2009 URL: One of eight poultry companies sued over pollution in the Illinois River watershed wants the U.S. District Court in Tulsa to approve a settlement that would drop the firm from the lawsuit. Willow Brook Foods Inc., a Springfield, Mo., company purchased by Cargill Value Added Meats in March 2008, cut a deal with Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson to pay $120,000 as part of a consent decree.