LONG-TERM DEBT AND OTHER BORROWING ARRANGEMENTS (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2017

Debt Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Long-term Debt

Long-term debt consisted of the following components:

	Maturity	December 31, 2017			December 25, 2016
Long-term debt and other long-term borrowing arrangements:		(In thousands)
Senior notes payable, net of unaccreted premium at 5.75%	2025	$	754,820		$	500,000
Senior notes payable at 5.875%	2027	600,000			—
Senior notes payable at 6.25%	2021	403,444			369,736
U.S. Credit Facility (defined below):
Term note payable at 2.61%	2022	780,000			500,000
Revolving note payable at 2.84%	2022	73,262			—
Mexico Credit Facility (defined below) with notes payable at TIIE rate           plus 0.90%	2019	76,307			23,304
Moy Park Multicurrency Revolving Facility with notes payable at           LIBOR rate plus 2.5%	2019	9,590			11,985
Moy Park Receivables Finance Agreement with payables at LIBOR           plus 1.5%	2020	—			—
Moy Park France Invoice Discounting Revolver with payables at           EURIBOR plus 0.8%	2018	1,815			8,918
Chattels mortgages at weighted average of 3.74%	Various	873			1,432
Term Loan Agence L’eau	2018	—			6
Capital lease obligations	Various	9,239			14,600
Long-term debt		2,709,350			1,429,981
Less: Current maturities of long-term debt		(47,775		)	(15,712		)
Long-term debt, less current maturities		2,661,575			1,414,269
Less: Capitalized financing costs		(25,958		)	(18,145		)
Long-term debt, less current maturities, net of capitalized      financing costs:		$	2,635,617		$	1,396,124