Good day, and welcome to Sanderson Farms Incorporated Fourth Quarter 2020 Conference Call. [Operator Instructions]
At this time for opening remarks and introductions, I would like to turn the call over to Mr. Joe Sanderson. Please go ahead, sir.
Joe F. Sanderson
Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board
Thank you. Good morning and welcome to Sanderson Farms fourth quarter and fiscal year-end conference call. This morning, we reported net income of $27.9 million or $1.26 per share for our fourth fiscal quarter of 2020. During the fourth quarter of last year, we lost $22.9 million or $1.05 per share. For the year ended October 31, 2020, we reported net income of $28.3 million or $1.27 per share. For fiscal 2019, we reported net income of $53.3 million or $2.41 per share.
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Alissa Zhu and Maria Clark, The American South
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11:07 am UTC Dec. 14, 2020
In mid-April, an employee at one of the chicken processing plants in Mississippi’s poultry capital of Scott County noticed two coworkers showed up sick, one complaining about a headache and shortness of breath.
At that point about one month after Mississippi announced its first confirmed case of COVID-19 and outbreaks at meatpacking plants across the country began to make headlines his company had not yet taken precautions against the pandemic, said the worker, who asked not to be named out of fear of losing his job.