BUSINESS SEGMENT AND GEOGRAPHIC REPORTING (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 28, 2014

Schedule of Net Sales and Long-lived Assets

Net sales to customers by customer location and long-lived assets are as follows:



	2014		2013		2012
	(In thousands)
Net sales to customers by customer location:
United States	$	7,067,408	$	6,816,246	$	6,600,206
Mexico	1,075,764		1,108,308		988,712
Asia	246,141		301,545		262,455
North America	80,121		51,275		111,305
Africa	49,810		38,809		62,642
Europe	44,377		73,349		79,101
South America	18,102		19,224		13,775
Pacific	1,642		2,392		3,186
Total	$	8,583,365	$	8,411,148	$	8,121,382



	December 28, 2014		December 29, 2013
	(In thousands)
Long-lived assets^(a):
United States	$	1,085,856	$	1,066,963
Mexico	96,939		84,848
Total	$	1,182,795	$	1,151,811


(a)	For this disclosure, we exclude financial instruments, deferred tax assets and intangible assets in accordance with ASC 280-10-50-41, Segment Reporting. Long-lived assets, as used in ASC 280-10-50-41, implies hard assets that cannot be readily removed.

Schedule of Sales by Product Lines

The following table sets forth, for the periods beginning with 2012, net sales attributable to each of our primary product lines and markets served with those products. We based the table on our internal sales reports and their classification of product types.



	2014		2013		2012
	(In thousands)
U.S. chicken:
Prepared chicken	$	1,787,389	$	2,046,747	$	2,239,289
Fresh chicken	4,703,993		4,123,087		3,583,854
Export and other chicken by-products	620,082		715,970		817,723
Total U.S. chicken	7,111,464		6,885,804		6,640,866
Mexico chicken	900,360		864,454		758,023
Total chicken	8,011,824		7,750,258		7,398,889
Other products:
U.S.	535,572		614,409		608,619
Mexico	35,969		46,481		113,874
Total other products	571,541		660,890		722,493
Total net sales	$	8,583,365	$	8,411,148	$	8,121,382