INVENTORIES (Tables)

6 Months Ended

Jul. 01, 2018

Inventory Disclosure [Abstract]

Schedule of Inventories

Inventories consisted of the following:

	July 1, 2018		December 31, 2017
	(In thousands)
Raw materials and work-in-process	$	751,534	$	722,083
Finished products (a)	345,158		444,796
Operating supplies	38,770		35,442
Maintenance materials and parts	54,555		52,749
Total inventories	$	1,190,017	$	1,255,070

(a) Finished products contains a $54.4 million reclassification related to both in-transit and non-chicken finished products that were previously presented in Feed, eggs and other on our annual report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2017 to conform to the inventories presented as of July1,2018.