Sanderson Farms has La Vega ISD warily counting its chickens.

Publication: Waco Tribune-Herald (Waco, Texas) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune Business News)

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COPYRIGHT 2006 Waco Tribune-Herald

Byline: Mike Copeland

Feb. 5--Sanderson Farms, which sells chicken products, could put nearly $1 million a year in the coffers of La Vega Independent School District with the proposed $62 million processing plant and hatchery it proposes to build locally.

That would make it La Vega's largest taxpayer, even ahead of the massive L-3 Communications plant that modifies military and commercial airplanes.

But La Vega officials talk cautiously of the plant. Although it could generate $930,000 a year for the district, that windfall could fade quickly.

"Every time local wealth goes up, state aid will go down proportionately. No good deed ever goes unpunished,"...

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