INVENTORIES

9 Months Ended

Sep. 30, 2018

Inventory Disclosure [Abstract]

INVENTORIES

INVENTORIES

Inventories consisted of the following:

	September 30, 2018		December 31, 2017
	(In thousands)
Raw materials and work-in-process	$	734,289	$	722,083
Finished products (a)	355,736		444,796
Operating supplies	42,350		35,442
Maintenance materials and parts	50,587		52,749
Total inventories	$	1,182,962	$	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 September 30, 2018.