Tyson Fresh Meats, a subsidiary of Tyson Foods, will pay a cattle feeder $2.57 million in damages as well as another $8 million in punitive damages, a final judgment in New Mexico federal court has ordered.
In the case, Zia Agricultural Consulting alleged that Tyson breached a cost-plus model contract for cattle it raised using Non-Hormone Treated Cattle (NHTC) and Global Animal Partnership (GAP)-certified programs, a program only marketed by Whole Foods.
The cost-plus model identified projected costs to finish the cattle…
