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    Exhibit
10.51

     

     

    WAIVER
AGREEMENT

     

     

    AND
SECOND AMENDMENT TO

     

     

    CREDIT
AGREEMENT

     

    THIS WAIVER AGREEMENT AND SECOND
AMENDMENT TO CREDIT AGREEMENT (the “Agreement”) is made
and entered into as of this 30th day of November, 2008 (the “Effective Date”), by
and among AVÍCOLA PILGRIM’S PRIDE DE MÉXICO, S. de R.L. de C.V., a sociedad de responsabilidad limitada
de capital variable organized under the laws of the United Mexican States
(the “Borrower”), PILGRIM’S
PRIDE CORPORATION, a Delaware corporation (the “Parent”), THE
SUBSIDIARIES OF THE BORROWER PARTY HERETO, as Guarantors, the several banks and
other financial institutions parties hereto which constitute Majority Lenders,
and ING CAPITAL LLC, as lead arranger and as administrative agent for the
Lenders.

     

     

    RECITALS

     

    A. Borrower,
Guarantors, Lenders and the Administrative Agent are parties to that certain
Credit Agreement dated as of September 25, 2006 (as amended, modified or
supplemented from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”),
pursuant to which Lenders agreed to make loans to Borrower from time to time
subject to the terms and conditions set forth therein.  Capitalized
terms not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings given such terms in
the Credit Agreement.

     

    B. Borrower
has advised the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that (i) Parent has
determined to file a case (the “Bankruptcy Filing”)
under Title 11 of the United States Code with a U.S. Bankruptcy Court (the
“Bankruptcy
Court”), and if such Bankruptcy Filing occurs, an Event of Default will
occur under Section 7.1(g) of the Credit Agreement (the “Bankruptcy Event”),
and (ii) Parent has defaulted as of the date hereof, or will default during the
Bankruptcy Filing, in the payment of principal or interest, beyond the
applicable period of grace, with respect to Indebtedness of the Parent in an
aggregate principal amount greater than US$20,000,000, and if such payment
default occurs, an Event of Default will occur under Section 7.1(f) of Credit
Agreement (the “Payment Event”; the
Payment Event, and the Bankruptcy Event shall be collectively referred to
hereinafter as the “Credit
Events”).

     

    C. As a
result of the occurrence of the Credit Events, Lenders would have no obligation
to make additional Revolving Loans under the Credit Agreement, and
Administrative Agent would have the full legal right to exercise its rights and
remedies under the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents.  Such
rights and remedies include, but are not limited to, the right to accelerate the
Obligations and the right to exercise its remedies under the Collateral
Documents.

     

    D. Borrower
has requested the Administrative Agent and Majority Lenders, for the Waiver
Period (defined below), to continue to make Loans (if available) and waive any
Events of Default arising from the Credits Events.

     

    E. Administrative
Agent and Majority Lenders are willing, for the Waiver Period (defined below),
to continue to make certain Loans (if available) to Borrower and to waive any
Events of Default arising from the Credit Events, subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement.

     

     

    AGREEMENT

     

    In
consideration of the Recitals and of the mutual promises and covenants contained
herein, Administrative Agent, Majority Lenders and Borrower agree as
follows:

     

    1. Waiver.  During
the period commencing on the date of a Bankruptcy Filing and ending on the
earlier of the Waiver Termination Date (defined below) and the date that any
Waiver Default (defined below) occurs (the “Waiver Period”), and
subject to the other terms and conditions of this Agreement, Administrative
Agent and Majority Lenders agree that they hereby waive any Default or Event of
Default arising under the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents by reason of
the Credit Events and agree that they will waive their rights and remedies that
arise upon the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default under the Credit
Agreement and the Loan Documents by reason of the Credit Events (the “Waiver”), including,
without limitation, waiving the right to (a) initiate judicial proceedings for
the collection of the Obligations, (b) initiate any judicial enforcement action
for the repossession and sale of the collateral as set forth in the Loan
Documents or (c) apply default interest to the Obligations in accordance with
Section 2.5(e) of the Credit Agreement.  Upon the expiration or
termination of the Waiver Period, the Waiver shall automatically terminate and
Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to exercise any and all
of their rights and remedies under this Agreement, the Credit Agreement and/or
the Loan Documents without further notice, subject to the terms of the Loan
Documents.  Borrower agrees that neither Administrative Agent nor any
Lender shall have any obligation to extend the Waiver Period.  “Waiver Termination
Date” shall mean the date that Parent exits any Insolvency
Proceeding.

     

    2. Amendments to Credit
Agreement.  To induce Administrative Agent and the Lenders to
enter into this Agreement, and as separately bargained-for consideration, each
of Borrower and the Guarantors agree to the following amendments to the Credit
Agreement:

     

    (a) Amendment to
Definitions.

     

    (i) The
definitions of “Applicable Margin”, “Change of Control”, “Eligible Assignee”,
“Loan Documents,” “Material Adverse Effect,” “Pledge Agreement”  and
“Pledgors” contained in Section 1.1 of the Credit Agreement are hereby
amended and restated to read in their entirety as follows:

     

    “Applicable Margin”
shall mean:

     

    (i)           prior
to the Parent Exit, the percentage set forth below for the applicable type of
Loan:

     

    
      	
              Applicable
      Margin for

              LIBOR Loans

            	
              Applicable
      Margin for

              Base Rate Loans

            	
              Applicable
      Margin for

               Peso Revolving Loans

            
	
              6.0%

            	
              4.0%

            	
              5.8%

            

    

     (ii)           from
and after the Parent Exit, the Applicable Margin for each of the LIBOR Loans and
the Base Rate Loans shall be 0.375% higher than the highest applicable interest
rate margin (in a pricing grid or otherwise) under the Replacement Loan Facility
and the Applicable Margin for Peso Revolving Loans shall be 0.20% less than the
Applicable Margin for LIBOR Loans hereunder.

     

    “Change of Control”
shall mean such time as:

     

    (a)           any
merger or consolidation of Borrower with or into any other Person or the merger
of another Person into the Borrower with the effect that immediately after such
transaction the Person or Persons who held Voting Stock in Borrower immediately
prior to such transaction shall hold less than 100% of the total voting power of
the Voting Stock generally entitled to vote in the election of directors,
managers or trustees of the Person surviving such merger or consolidation;
or

     

    (b)           any
sale, lease, exchange or other transfer (in one transaction or a series of
related transactions) is consummated with respect to all or substantially all of
the assets of the Borrower to any Person or group of Persons (other than in
compliance with the provisions hereof); or

     

    (c)           Parent
or its Subsidiaries shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, all of the
Voting Stock of Borrower; or

     

    (d)           any
liquidation or dissolution of Borrower; or

     

    (e)           after
the Parent Exit, any “Change of Control” (as such term, or similar term, is
defined in the Replacement Loan Facility) shall occur;

     

    provided
that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, no Change of
Control shall be deemed to have occurred as a result of any action permitted by
Sections 6.10 (other than Section 6.10(d) and 6.10(e)) and 6.11, so long as, the
Parent and/or a Subsidiary of the Parent shall own all of the Voting Stock of
the Borrower.

     

    “Eligible Assignee”
shall mean, with respect to any assignments by the Lenders, (a) a Mexican
Financial Institution, or (b) unless such registration with Hacienda no longer
enables them to have a reduced withholding tax:  (i) a financial
institution registered with Hacienda for purposes of Section I of Article 195 or
Section II of Article 196 of the Mexican Income Tax Law (or any successor or
replacement thereof), or (ii) a Person so registered with Hacienda that is
primarily engaged in the business of commercial banking and that
is:  (A) a Subsidiary of a Lender, (B) a Subsidiary of a
Person of which a Lender is a Subsidiary or (C) a Person of which a Lender
is a Subsidiary.  In any event, an Eligible Assignee shall be
headquartered in Mexico or a country that has a treaty with Mexico that limits
withholding in Mexico for financial institutions registered with Hacienda to a
rate no greater than 4.9%.

    

    “Loan Documents” shall
mean the collective reference to this Agreement, the Notes, the Collateral
Documents, any Lender Hedging Agreements, and any other agreements, documents
and instruments executed and delivered in connection with the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby.

    

    “Material Adverse
Effect” shall mean any of (a) a material
adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon the condition (financial or
otherwise), business, properties, or results of operations of (i) the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries who are Loan Parties, taken as a whole, or
(ii) Parent and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) a material
adverse change in the ability of (i) the Borrower and the Loan Parties, taken as
a whole or (ii) the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, to fulfill any of their
obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or (c) a material
adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability of
any Loan Document (other than the Parent Guaranty) or the rights or remedies of
the Administrative Agent or the Lenders thereunder; provided, however, that the
existence of the Credit Events shall not be taken into account in determining
whether there has been or will be, a Material Adverse Effect under clauses (a)
or (b) of this definition.”

    

    “Pledge Agreement”
shall mean, collectively, those certain Pledge Agreements by each of Parent,
Borrower and Pledgors in favor of Administrative Agent, as the same may be
amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, over the equity
interests representing the equity capital of all Guarantors (other than
Parent).

    

    “Pledgors” shall mean
each of (i) POPPSA 4, LLC, (ii) POPPSA 3, LLC, (iii) Pilgrim’s Pride, S. de R.L.
de C.V., (iv) Incubadora Hidalgo, S. de R.L. de C.V., (iv) Grupo Pilgrim ́s Pride
Funding Holdings, S de R.L. de C.V., (vi) Carnes y Productos Avícolas de México,
S de R.L. de C.V., (vii) Borrower and (viii) any Successor Person to a Pledgor
that becomes bound by a Pledge Agreement pursuant to Section 5.12.

     

    (ii) The
definition of “Permitted Liens”
shall be amended by the addition of a new subsection (p) as
follows:

    

    “(p)           any
liens securing the Obligations.”

    

    (iii) The
following definitions are added to Section 1.1 of the Credit Agreement in
their proper alphabetical order to read as follows:

     

    “Bankruptcy Filing”
shall have the meaning set forth in the Second Amendment.

     

    “Credit Events” shall
have the meaning set forth in the Second Amendment.

     

    “Collateral Document”
shall mean, collectively, the Pledge Agreement, Security Agreement, Mortgage,
and any other agreements, documents and instruments which secure the
Obligations.

     

    “DIP Loan Agreement”
shall mean that certain Post-Petition Credit Agreement, dated on or about
December 1, 2008, by and among Parent, various Subsidiaries of Parent, Bank of
Montreal as Agent and various lenders, as such agreement may be amended,
modified, supplemented or restated from time to time.

     

    “Gallina” shall mean
Gallina Pesada S.A. de C.V.

     

    “Mortgage” shall mean,
collectively, the Mortgage Agreements executed by Borrower or any Guarantor in
favor of Administrative Agent, as the same may be amended, restated or otherwise
modified from time to time.

     

    “Parent Exit” shall
mean when Parent is no longer in an Insolvency Proceeding as a result of the
Bankruptcy Filing (including, without limitation, as a result of any dismissal
of or emergence from such proceeding).

     

    “Prepayment Event”
shall mean (a) any Asset Sale described in Sections 6.10(c), 6.10(d)(iii) or
6.10(g), (b) any casualty or other insured damage to, or any taking under power
of eminent domain or by condemnation or similar proceedings of, any property or
asset of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (c) the incurrence by the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness not permitted under Section 6.8, or
(d) receipt of cash equity by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries from any
Peron other than Borrower and its Subsidiaries who are Loan
Parties.

     

    “Replacement Loan
Facility” shall mean any credit agreement pursuant to which any
Indebtedness of the Parent is issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of
which are used to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease or refund the
Indebtedness owing under the DIP Loan Agreement.

     

    “Reporting Date” means, with respect to any,
month the date occurring the number of days after the last day of such month set
forth below opposite such month:

     

    
      	
              Month

            	
              Number
      of days after the last day of the month

            
	
              October

            	
              60

            
	
              November

            	
              30

            
	
              December

            	
              45

            
	
              January

            	
              45

            
	
              February

            	
              30

            
	
              March

            	
              45

            
	
              April

            	
              45

            
	
              May

            	
              30

            
	
              June

            	
              45

            
	
              July

            	
              45

            
	
              August

            	
              30

            
	
              September

            	
              90

            

    

    

     

    “Second Amendment”
shall mean that certain Wavier Agreement and Second Amendment to Credit
Agreement dated November 30, 2008 by and among Borrower, Parent, Administrative
Agent and Majority Lenders.

     

    “Security Agreement”
shall mean, collectively, (i) those certain Pledge Agreements Without the
Transfer of Possession executed and delivered by Borrower or any Guarantor
(organized under the laws of Mexico) in favor of Administrative Agent, as the
same may be amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time and (ii)
the Security Agreement executed and delivered by POPPSA 3, LLC, POPPSA 4, LLC,
and Pilgrim’s Pride, LLC, in favor of Administrative Agent, as the same may be
amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

     

    “Waiver Period” shall
have the meaning set forth in the Second Amendment.

     

    (b) Amendment to
Section 2.3.  Section 2.3 of the Credit Agreement is
hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:

     

    “Section
2.3                                Repayment.  The
principal of the Revolving Loans of each Lender shall be payable in full on the
Final Maturity Date.”

     

    (c) Amendment to
Section 2.4(b).  Section 2.4(b) of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended in its entirety to read as follows:

     

    “(b)                 Mandatory
Prepayments.

     

    (i)           If
on any date the Borrower or any of the Subsidiary Loan Parties shall receive Net
Cash Proceeds from any Prepayment Event described in clause (a) of the
definition thereof, the Borrower shall make a prepayment of the Revolving Loans
in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds received by the
Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan Parties in excess of US$2,500,000 (“$2,500,000
Threshold”) during any fiscal year in accordance with this Section 2.4(b)
within five (5) Business Days of receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds and the
Revolving Loan Commitment shall be permanently reduced by an amount equal to
such Net Cash Proceeds in excess of US$2,500,000; provided that, after the
$2,500,000 Threshold has been reached, there shall be no prepayment or Revolving
Loan Commitment reduction requirement for any Prepayment Event described in this
Section 2.4(b)(i) if the Net Cash Proceeds resulting therefrom are less than
$200,000; provided further that, the Borrower shall not be required to prepay
the Revolving Loans as a result of an Asset Sale permitted under Section
6.10(c), if, with respect to any Net Cash Proceeds received by the Borrower and
the Subsidiary Loan Parties from such Asset Sale, (x) the Borrower or one of the
Subsidiary Loan Parties uses such Net Cash Proceeds to replace the affected
property or asset, (y) the Borrower or a Subsidiary Loan Party enters into a
contract for such replacement within 120 days of the Prepayment Event, and (z)
such repair or replacement is effected within 360 days of the Prepayment
Event.

     

    (ii)           If
on any date the Borrower or any of the Subsidiary Loan Parties shall receive Net
Cash Proceeds from any Prepayment Event described in clause (b) of the
definition thereof, the Borrower shall make a prepayment of the Revolving Loans
in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds received by
Borrower in excess of US$500,000 during any fiscal year which shall be applied
to prepay the Revolving Loans in accordance with this Section 2.4(b)
within five (5) Business Days; provided that the
Borrower shall not be required to prepay the Revolving Loans as a result of such
Prepayment Event, if, with respect to any Net Cash Proceeds received by the
Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan Parties from such Prepayment Events, (x) the
Borrower or one of the Subsidiary Loan Parties uses such Net Cash Proceeds to
repair or replace the affected property or asset, (y) the Borrower or a
Subsidiary Loan Party enters into a contract for such repair or replacement
within 120 days of the Prepayment Event, and (z) such repair or replacement is
effected within 360 days of the Prepayment Event, and if such repair or
replacement is not so contracted for or effected at the end of such 120 or 360
day period, as applicable, such Net Cash Proceeds shall be applied within five
(5) Business Days of the end of such period to prepay the Revolving Loans in
accordance with this Section 2.4(b) and
the Revolving Loan Commitment shall be permanently reduced by an amount equal to
such Net Cash Proceeds in excess of US$500,000.

     

    (iii)           If
on any date the Borrower shall receive Net Cash Proceeds from any Prepayment
Event described in clause (c) or (d) of the definition thereof, the Borrower
shall make a prepayment of the Revolving Loans in an aggregate amount equal to
100% of such Net Cash Proceeds received by Borrower which shall be applied to
prepay the Revolving Loans in accordance with this Section 2.4(b)
within five (5) Business Days and permanently reduce the Revolving Loan
Commitment.

     

    (iv)           Amounts
to be applied in connection with prepayments made pursuant to clauses (i)-(iii)
of this Section 2.4(b) shall be applied to prepay the Revolving Loans, on a pro
rata basis.

     

    (v)           Pending
the final application of any such Net Cash Proceeds in accordance with this
Section 2.4, the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries may temporarily invest such Net Cash Proceeds in
any manner that is not prohibited by this Agreement.”

     

    (d) Amendment to Sections
2.12(e) and (g).  Sections 2.12(e) and (g) of the Credit
Agreement are hereby amended in their entirety to read as follows:

     

    “(e)           If
the Borrower is required to pay any amount to any Person pursuant to either
paragraph (b) or (c) in an amount greater than would otherwise be
applicable if such Person is registered with the Hacienda, then such Person
shall use reasonable efforts (consistent with legal and regulatory restrictions)
to change the jurisdiction of its Lending Office or other relevant office so as
to eliminate any such additional payment by the Borrower that may thereafter
accrue, if such change (in the sole judgment of such Person) is not otherwise
disadvantageous to such Person and shall cooperate with the Borrower to recover
any contested amount.

     

    (g)           The
Lender shall promptly reimburse to the Borrower an amount in Dollars equal to
the amount, if any, of any Taxes, Other Taxes or Further Taxes deducted or
withheld by the Borrower hereunder and actually used by the Lender to offset its
tax liabilities in the United States of America or any other
jurisdiction.  On July 1 of each calendar year, each Lender will
give notice to the Borrower regarding the amount, if any, of the tax credit
obtained by the Lender for the prior calendar year pursuant to the above, and
the Lender will advance the corresponding Dollar amount to the Borrower, if any,
within ten Business Days following the date of such notice.  The
Borrower’s indemnification and reimbursement rights and the Lender’s
reimbursement obligations under this Section 2.12 shall survive the termination
of this Agreement until six months after all of the Lenders’ tax returns for the
years during which the Agreement was in existence are originally filed with the
U.S. Internal Revenue Service or the applicable Governmental Authority in any
other jurisdiction.”

     

    (e) Amendment to Section
4.20.  During the Waiver Period, Section 4.20 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended by deleting each reference to the words “Loan Party”
and substituting in lieu therefor the words “Loan Party (other than the
Parent)”.

     

    (f) Amendment to Section
4.23.  Section 4.23 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended
by deleting the phrase “subject to Section
2.4(b)(viii),”
therefrom.

     

    (g) Amendment to Section
5.2(b).  Section 5.2(b) of the Credit Agreement is hereby
amended in its entirety to read as follows:

     

    “(b)           as
soon as available but in no event later than the applicable Reporting Date for
each calendar month, a copy of the consolidated balance sheet of Borrower and
its Subsidiaries and of Parent and its Subsidiaries and the consolidated
statements of income and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and of
Parent and its Subsidiaries for the month and for the fiscal year-to-date period
then ended, each in reasonable detail showing in comparative form the figures
for the corresponding date and period in the previous fiscal year, prepared by
the Borrower (but not necessarily in accordance with GAAP) and certified by
their Responsible Officers;”

     

    (h) Amendment
to Section 6.2(b).  Section 6.2(b) of the Credit Agreement is hereby
amended in its entirety to read as follows:

    

    “(b)           so
long as no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or
would result therefrom, the Borrower may make non-cash dividends to the holders
of its Equity Interests solely in Equity Interests of the Borrower or options,
warrants and other rights to purchase Equity Interests of
Borrower;”

     

    

    (i) Amendment to Section
6.10.  Section 6.10 of the Credit Agreement is hereby
amended in its entirety to read as follows:

    

    “Section
6.10                                Limitation on Asset
Sales.  Consummate any Asset Sale, except:

     

    (a)           sales
or other dispositions of inventory, receivables and other current assets, in the
ordinary course of business;

     

    (b)           sales
or other dispositions of Temporary Cash Investments if the Net Cash Proceeds
thereof are delivered to Borrower or its Subsidiaries;

     

    (c)           sales,
transfers, assignments or other disposition of any property or equipment that
has become damaged, worn out, obsolete or otherwise unsuitable for use in
connection with the business of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries if the Net Cash
Proceeds thereof are delivered to Borrower or its Subsidiaries;

     

    (d)           sales,
transfers or other dispositions: (i) from any Loan Party to a Loan Party that is
party to a Security Agreement; (ii) from any Loan Party to a Loan Party in the
ordinary course of business in accordance with past practice; and (iii) to any
Person in an amount not to exceed $10,000,000 in the aggregate, in any fiscal
year for all such sales, transfers or other dispositions (excluding sales,
transfers or other dispositions permitted under (i) or (ii) above);

     

    (e)           an
issuance of Equity Interests by the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s
Subsidiaries to one or more of the Loan Parties;

     

    (f)           the
sale, lease or other disposition of any assets or rights to the extent
constituting a Restricted Payment permitted by Section 6.2 or
an Investment that is permitted by Section 6.3
hereof; and

     

    (g)           sales,
transfers and other dispositions of assets (other than Equity Interests in a
Subsidiary) that are not permitted by any other clause of this Section; provided that (i) the
consideration received by the Borrower or such Subsidiary is at least equal to
the fair market value of the assets sold or disposed of, (ii) at least 80%
of the consideration received consists of cash or Temporary Cash Investments,
and (iii) the Net
Cash Proceeds of such Asset Sale are applied to the extent required by Section 2.4(b).

     

    After
giving effect to any merger, sales, transfers, or other dispositions permitted
by Section 6.10(d)(i) or (ii) or 6.11(a) or (b), Comercializadora de Carnes
de México, S. de R.L. de C.V., Pilgrim’s Pride, S. de R.L. de C.V., Inmobliaria
Avicola Pilgrim’s Pride, S. de R.L. de C.V., and Incubadora Hidalgo, S. de R.L.
de C.V. must continue to have a book value of “customer” accounts receivable,
inventory and equipment (including autos and trucks) of at least
P$1,467,244,992.05 as determined in
accordance with Mexican GAAP (on an aggregate basis)
(all without giving effect to any depreciation) (the “Initial Minimum Collateral
Amount”); provided that the Initial Minimum Collateral Amount shall be
reduced from time to time as a result of reductions in the amount of the
Revolving Loan Commitment (as so reduced, the “Adjusted Minimum Collateral
Amount”).  The Adjusted Minimum Collateral Amount in effect
from time to time shall be an amount equal to (i) the Initial Minimum Collateral
Amount less
(ii) an amount equal to 90% of the difference between
(A) Initial Minimum Collateral Amount and (B) the product of
(x) the Initial Minimum Collateral Amount times (y) the Peso
amount of the then-current reduced Revolving Loan Commitment divided by
P$557,415,000.”

     

    (j) Indenture.  Section 6.15
of the Credit Agreement is hereby deleted.

     

    (k) Defaults.  Section 7.1(j)
of the Credit Agreement is amended and restated as follows:

     

    “(j) a
Change of Control or Material Adverse Effect shall occur; or”

    

    (l) Amendment to Guarantor
List.  Schedule 1.1(b) of the Credit Agreement shall be and
hereby is amended and restated and replaced in its entirety with Schedule 1.1(b)
attached hereto.

     

    3. Covenants of
Borrower.  Borrower and Guarantors covenant and agree until
such time as all of the Obligations have been paid in full in cash and all
Commitments have been terminated:

     

    (a) No Commencement of
Proceeding. Borrower and Guarantors (other than Parent) will not (i) file
any petition for an order for relief under the Bankruptcy Code, (ii) make
an assignment for the benefit of creditors, (iii) make any offer or agreement of
settlement, extension or compromise to or with Borrower’s and Guarantors’ (other
than Parent’s) unsecured creditors generally or (iv) suffer the appointment of a
receiver, trustee, custodian or similar fiduciary.

     

    (b) Compliance with Credit
Agreement, Collateral Documents and Loan Documents.  Each of
Borrower and Guarantors will continue to comply with all covenants and other
obligations under this Agreement, the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents,
subject to the applicable cure or grace periods, if any, provided
therein.

     

    (c) Fees. In
consideration of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders agreement hereunder,
Borrower shall pay to Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, on a
pro rata basis based upon their Revolving Loan Commitments, a waiver fee in the
amount of 1% of the Revolving Loan Commitment, which shall be deemed fully
earned and non-refundable on the date hereof.

     

    (d) Grant of Additional
Collateral.  In consideration of Administrative Agent and
Lenders agreements hereunder, on the date hereof, and at all times thereafter,
(i) Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries agree to grant to Administrative
Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, a Lien on all assets and other personal
property (including, without limitation, accounts receivable, inventory and
equipment) owned by Borrower and each Subsidiary of Borrower (other than
Gallina) pursuant to a Security Agreement, (ii) each Subsidiary of Borrower
whose Equity Interests are not pledged to Administrative Agent pursuant to a
Pledge Agreement shall cause the owner of its Equity Interests to pledge such
Equity Interests (as to Pilgrim’s Pride, LLC, it shall not be required to pledge
its interest in Borrower) to Administrative Agent, for the benefit of Lenders,
in each case, pursuant to documentation, in form and substance satisfactory to
Administrative Agent and the Lenders (collectively, together with the Real
Property Collateral (as defined below) the “Additional
Collateral”, together with the collateral currently existing under the
Pledge Agreements, the “Collateral”) and
(iii) Pilgrim’s Pride, LLC, POPPSA 3, LLC and POPPSA 4, LLC agree to execute a
Guarantor Accession Agreement.  Within ten (10) Business Days after
the date hereof, Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries agree to grant to
Administrative Agent, for the benefit of Lenders, a Lien on certain real
property owned by Borrower or its Subsidiaries identified by Administrative
Agent to Borrower on or before December 1, 2008, and, at any time after the date
hereof, subject to the Filing Fee Cap,  within a reasonable period of
time after written request from Administrative Agent, Borrower and its
Subsidiaries agree to grant to Administrative Agent, for the benefit of Lenders,
a Lien on any other real property owned by Borrower or its Subsidiaries
(collectively, the “Real Property
Collateral”).  Notwithstanding anything in this Section 3(d) to
the contrary, Borrower shall not be required to pay any Perfection Expenses in
connection therewith on or after such time as the aggregate amount of the
Perfection Expenses exceed an amount equal to US$1,000,000 (“Filing Fee
Cap”).  For the purposes of this Section 3(d), “Perfection Expenses”
shall mean any filing costs, recording costs, notary costs or taxes incurred in
recording or perfecting a Lien on any Additional Collateral in favor of
Administrative Agent; provided, however, that Perfection Expenses shall not
include attorneys fees.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
herein or in the Loan Documents, any Perfection Expenses in excess of the Filing
Fee Cap shall be borne by Administrative Agent.

     

    (e) Cash Flow
Forecast.  During the Waiver Period, Borrower hereby agrees to
deliver to Administrative Agent on Friday of each week, a rolling 13 week cash
flow forecast (the “Cash Flow Forecast”)
for Borrower and its Subsidiaries, which Cash Flow Forecast shall be in form and
substance satisfactory to Administrative Agent.

     

    (f) Trade Credit with
Parent.  During the Wavier
Period, Borrower and Parent hereby covenant to maintain trade credit between
Parent and Borrower consistent with past practices and in the ordinary course of
business to the extent the same is permitted under the DIP Loan
Agreement.

     

    4. Conditions Precedent to
Effectiveness of Agreement.  This Agreement shall not be
effective unless and until each of the following conditions shall have
occurred:

     

    (a) Administrative
Agent shall have received evidence reasonably satisfactory to Administrative
Agent that all corporate proceedings of the Borrower necessary to authorize the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement have been taken and all documents,
instruments and other legal matters incident thereto shall be satisfactory to
Administrative Agent;

     

    (b) Borrower
shall have paid the Administrative Agent all of Administrative Agent’s costs and
expenses (including Administrative Agent’s reasonable attorney’s fees) incurred
prior to or in connection with the preparation of this Agreement or related to
Borrower or Parent;

     

    (c) Administrative
Agent shall have received a copy of all written agreements between Parent and
Borrower (or its Subsidiaries) relating to any intercompany financing and/or
purchasing of goods and services by Parent for Borrower or its
Subsidiaries;

     

    (d) Borrower
and its Subsidiaries shall have each executed a Security Agreement in favor of
Administrative Agent;

     

    (e) Borrower
and its Subsidiaries shall have executed a Pledge Agreement pledging the equity
in their Subsidiaries in favor of Administrative Agent; and

     

    (f) Pilgrim’s
Pride, LLC, POPPSA 3, LLC and POPPSA, 4, LLC shall have executed a Guarantor
Accession Agreement.

     

    5. Representations and
Warranties.  Borrower hereby represents and warrants to
Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, as follows:

     

    (a) Recitals.  The
Recitals in this Agreement are true and correct with respect to the Loan Parties
in all material respects.

     

    (b) Incorporation of
Representations.  All representations and warranties of
Borrower and the Guarantors in the Credit Agreement are incorporated herein in
full by this reference and are true and correct, in all material respects, as of
the date hereof, except to the extent that such representations and warranties
specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and
correct as of such earlier date.

     

    (c) Power;
Authorization.  Each of the Borrower and Guarantors has the
corporate power, and has been duly authorized by all requisite corporate action,
to execute and deliver this Agreement and to perform its obligations
hereunder.  This Agreement has been duly executed and delivered by
Borrower and Guarantors.

     

    (d) Enforceability.  This
Agreement is the legal, valid and binding obligation of Borrower and each
Guarantor, enforceable against Borrower and each Guarantor in accordance with
its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by bankruptcy,
insolvency, reorganization, moratorium, fraudulent transfer or other similar
laws relating to or affecting the enforcement of creditors’ rights generally and
general principles of equity.

     

    (e) No
Violation.  Borrower’s and each Guarantors’ execution, delivery
and performance of this Agreement does not and will not (i) violate any law,
rule, regulation or court order to which Borrower or such Guarantor is subject;
(ii) conflict with or result in a breach of Borrower’s or such Guarantors’
organizational documents or any agreement or instrument to which Borrower or any
Guarantor is party or by which it or its properties are bound, or (iii) result
in the creation or imposition of any lien, security interest or encumbrance on
any property of Borrower or such Guarantor, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired, other than liens in favor of Administrative Agent, for the benefit of
the Lenders, or as permitted by the Credit Agreement.

     

    (f) Obligations
Absolute.  The obligation of Borrower to repay the Loans and
the other Obligations, together with all interest accrued thereon, is absolute
and unconditional, and there exists no right of set off or recoupment,
counterclaim or defense of any nature whatsoever to payment of the
Obligations.

     

    (g) Full Opportunity for Review;
No Undue Influence.  This Agreement was reviewed by each of
Borrower and Guarantors which acknowledges and agrees that each of Borrower and
Guarantors (i) understands fully the terms of this Agreement and the
consequences of the issuance hereof; (ii) has been afforded an opportunity to
have this Agreement reviewed by, and to discuss this Agreement with, such
attorneys and other persons as Borrower may wish; and (iii) has entered into
this Agreement of its own free will and accord and without threat or
duress.  This Agreement and all information furnished to
Administrative Agent and the Lenders is made and furnished in good faith, for
value and valuable consideration.  This Agreement has not been made or
induced by any fraud, duress or undue influence exercised by Lenders or
Administrative Agent or any other person.

     

    (h) No Other
Defaults.  As of the date hereof, no Event of Default (other
than the Credit Events) exists under the Credit Agreement, or any of the Loan
Documents and each of Borrower and the Guarantors is in full compliance with all
covenants and agreements contained therein, as amended hereby.

     

    6. Default.  Each
of the following shall constitute a “Waiver Default”
hereunder:

     

    (a) Borrower
shall suffer the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian or similar
fiduciary, or shall make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, or any
petition for an order for relief shall be filed by or against Borrower or any
Guarantor (other than the Parent) under any Bankruptcy Law, or Borrower or any
Guarantor (other than the Parent) shall make any offer or agreement of
settlement, extension or compromise to or with such person’s unsecured creditors
generally; or

     

    (b) any
representation or warranty of Borrower or any Guarantor contained in this
Agreement proves to have been false or misleading in any material respect when
made or furnished (or reaffirmed in connection with any Loan); or

     

    (c) Borrower
or any Guarantor shall fail to keep or perform any of the covenants or
agreements contained herein (including, without limitation, the terms and
conditions of Section 3(d)); or

     

    (d) Borrower
or any Guarantor shall fail to keep or perform any of the covenants or
agreements contained in the Credit Agreement, or the Loan Documents (other than
the Credit Events), subject to the applicable cure or grace periods, if any,
provided therein; or

     

    (e) the
existence of any Event of Default (other than the Credit Events) under the
Credit Agreement; or

     

    (f) the
occurrence of an event of default under the DIP Loan Agreement or the
Replacement Loan Facility that has not been cured after the delivery of all
required notices and the expiration of any applicable period of
grace.

     

    7. Conditional Permanent
Waiver; Effect and Construction of Agreement.  Upon the Waiver
Termination Date, if a Bankruptcy Filing has occurred but no Waiver Default has
occurred, Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby permanently waive any
Events of Default that occurred as a result of the Credit Events as long as
Parent’s obligations, for claims before, during and after the Bankruptcy Filing,
under the Parent Guaranty are not discharged in any Bankruptcy
Filing.  Except as expressly provided herein, the Credit Agreement and
the Loan Documents are hereby ratified and confirmed and shall be and shall
remain in full force and effect in accordance with their respective terms, and
this Agreement shall not be construed to: (i) impair the validity, perfection or
priority of any lien or security interest securing the Obligations; (ii) waive
or impair any rights, powers or remedies of Administrative Agent or the Lender
under the Credit Agreement or the Loan Documents upon termination of the Waiver
Period; (iii) constitute an agreement by Administrative Agent or the Lenders or
require Administrative Agent or the Lenders to extend the Waiver Period, or
grant additional waiver periods, or extend the term of the Credit Agreement or
the time for payment of any of the Obligations; or (iv) make any Loans or
other extensions of credit to Borrower.  In the event of any
inconsistency between the terms of this Agreement and the Credit Agreement or
the Loan Documents, this Agreement shall govern. Borrower and Guarantors
acknowledge that they have consulted with counsel and with such other experts
and advisors as it has deemed necessary in connection with the negotiation,
execution and delivery of this Agreement.  This Agreement shall be
construed without regard to any presumption or rule requiring that it be
construed against the party causing this Agreement or any part hereof to be
drafted.

     

    8. Expenses. Borrower
and Guarantors agree to pay all reasonable out-of-pocket costs, fees and
expenses of Administrative Agent, Lenders and Administrative Agent’s and
Lenders’ attorneys incurred in connection with the negotiation, preparation,
administration and enforcement of, and the preservation of any rights under,
this Agreement and/or the Loan Documents, and the transactions and other matters
contemplated hereby and thereby, including, but not limited to, Perfection
Expenses and the out-of-pocket fees, costs and expenses incurred by
Administrative Agent and Lenders in the employment of auditors and/or
consultants to perform work on Lenders’ behalf to audit, appraise, monitor and
otherwise review any and all portions of the assets of Borrower of its
Subsidiaries (subject to the Filing Fee Cap, as applicable).

     

    9. Miscellaneous.

     

    (a) Further
Assurances.  Borrower and Guarantors agree to execute such
other and further documents and instruments as Administrative Agent may request
to implement the provisions of this Agreement and to perfect and protect the
liens and security interests created by the Credit Agreement and the Loan
Documents.

     

    (b) Benefit of
Agreement.  This Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to
the benefit of and be enforceable by the parties hereto, their respective
successors and assigns.  No other person or entity shall be entitled
to claim any right or benefit hereunder, including, without limitation, the
status of a third-party beneficiary of this Agreement.

     

    (c) Integration.  This
Agreement, together with the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents,
constitutes the entire agreement and understanding among the parties relating to
the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior proposals, negotiations,
agreements and understandings relating to such subject matter.  In
entering into this Agreement, each of Borrower and Guarantor acknowledges that
it is relying on no statement, representation, warranty, covenant or agreement
of any kind made by the Administrative Agent or any Lender or any employee or
agent of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, except for the agreements of
Administrative Agent or any Lender set forth herein.

     

    (d) Severability.  The
provisions of this Agreement are intended to be severable.  If any
provisions of this Agreement shall be held invalid or unenforceable in whole or
in part in any jurisdiction, such provision shall, as to such jurisdiction, be
ineffective to the extent of such invalidity or enforceability without in any
manner affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other
jurisdiction or the remaining provisions of this Agreement in any
jurisdiction.

     

    (e) Governing
Law.  This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the internal substantive laws of the State of New York, without
regard to the choice of law principles of such state.

     

    (f) Counterparts; Telecopied
Signatures.  This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by different parties to this Agreement on separate
counterparts, each of which, when so executed, shall be deemed an original, but
all such counterparts shall constitute one and the same
agreement.  Any signature delivered by a party by facsimile
transmission shall be deemed to be an original signature hereto.

     

    (g) Notices.  Any
notices with respect to this Agreement shall be given in the manner provided for
in Section 10.06 of the Credit Agreement.

     

    (h) Survival.  All
representations, warranties, covenants, agreements, undertakings, waivers and
releases of Borrower and Guarantors contained herein shall survive the
termination of the Waiver Period and payment in full of the
Obligations.

     

    (i) Amendment.  No
amendment, modification, rescission, waiver or release of any provision of this
Agreement shall be effective unless the same shall be in writing and signed by
the parties hereto.

     

    (j) No Limitation on
Administrative Agent. Nothing in this Agreement shall be deemed in any
way to limit or restrict any of Administrative Agent’s and Lenders’ rights to
seek in a bankruptcy court or any other court of competent jurisdiction, any
relief Administrative Agent may deem appropriate in the event that a voluntary
or involuntary petition under any Bankruptcy Law is filed by or against
Borrower

     

    10. Ratification of Liens and
Security Interest.  Borrower and each Guarantor hereby
acknowledge and agree that the liens and security interests of the Credit
Agreement and the Loan Documents are valid, subsisting, perfected and
enforceable liens and security interests and are superior to all liens and
security interests other than Liens permitted under Section 6.7 of the Credit
Agreement.

     

    11. No
Commitment.  Borrower and Guarantors agree that Administrative
Agent and Lenders have made no commitment or other agreement regarding the
Credit Agreement or the Loan Documents, except as expressly set forth in this
Agreement.  Borrower and Guarantors warrant and represent that
Borrower and Guarantors will not rely on any commitment, further agreement to
waive or other agreement on the part of Administrative Agent or Lenders unless
such commitment or agreement is in writing and signed by Administrative Agent
and Lenders.

     

    12. RELEASE.  FOR
VALUE RECEIVED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE AGREEMENTS OF THE AGENT AND
MAJORITY LENDERS IN THIS AGREEMENT, THE BORROWER AND GUARANTORS HEREBY RELEASE
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND EACH LENDER, THEIR RESPECTIVE CURRENT AND FORMER
SHAREHOLDERS, DIRECTORS, OFFICERS, AGENTS, EMPLOYEES, ATTORNEYS, CONSULTANTS,
AND PROFESSIONAL ADVISORS (COLLECTIVELY, THE “RELEASED PARTIES”) OF
AND FROM ANY AND ALL DEMANDS, ACTIONS, CAUSES OF ACTION, SUITS, CONTROVERSIES,
ACTS AND OMISSIONS, LIABILITIES, AND OTHER CLAIMS OF EVERY KIND OR NATURE
WHATSOEVER, BOTH IN LAW AND IN EQUITY, KNOWN OR UNKNOWN, WHICH SUCH BORROWER OR
GUARANTOR HAS OR EVER HAD AGAINST THE RELEASED PARTIES FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE
WORLD TO THIS DATE ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE EXISTING FINANCING ARRANGEMENTS
AMONG THE BORROWER, THE GUARANTORS, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND/OR THE LENDERS
IRRESPECTIVE OF WHETHER ANY SUCH CLAIMS ARISE OUT OF CONTRACT, TORT, VIOLATION
OF LAW OR REGULATIONS OR OTHERWISE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO, ANY
CONTRACTING FOR, CHARGING, TAKING, RESERVING, COLLECTING OR RECEIVING INTEREST
IN EXCESS OF THE HIGHEST LAWFUL RATE APPLICABLE, THE EXERCISE OF ANY RIGHTS AND
REMEDIES UNDER THE LOAN DOCUMENTS, OR THE NEGOTIATION FOR AND EXECUTION OF THIS
AGREEMENT.  THE BORROWER AND GUARANTORS FURTHER ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, AS
OF THE DATE HEREOF, THEY, JOINTLY OR SEVERALLY, DO NOT HAVE ANY COUNTERCLAIM,
SET-OFF, OR DEFENSE AGAINST THE RELEASED PARTIES, EACH OF WHICH SUCH BORROWER OR
GUARANTOR HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVES.

     

    [Signature
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    IN
WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have executed this Agreement as of the day
and year first above written.

     

     

    AVÍCOLA
PILGRIM’S PRIDE DE MÉXICO, S. de R.L. de C.V.

     

     

    a Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada
de Capital Variable

     

     

    By:    /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Name:  Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Title:  Attorney-in-Fact

     

     

    PILGRIM’S PRIDE CORPORATION, a
Delaware corporation

     

     

    By:    /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Name:  Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Title:  Attorney-in-Fact

     

     

    INCUBADORA
HIDALGO, S. de R.L. de C.V.

     

     

    a Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada
de Capital Variable

     

     

    By:    /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Name:  Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Title:  Attorney-in-Fact

     

     

    PILGRIM’S
PRIDE, S. de R.L. de C.V.

     

     

    a Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada
de Capital Variable

     

     

    By:    /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Name:  Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Title:  Attorney-in-Fact

     

     

    INMOBLIARIA
AVÍCOLA PILGRIM’S PRIDE,  S. de R.L. de C.V.

     

     

    a Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada
de Capital Variable

     

     

    By:    /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Name:  Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Title:  Attorney-in-Fact

     

     

    SERVICIOS
ADMINISTRATIVOS PILGRIM’S PRIDE, S. de R.L. de C.V.

     

     

    a Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada
de Capital Variable

     

     

    By:   
/s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

                                     
Name:  Richard A. Cogdill

                                 
Title:  Attorney-in-Fact

     

     

    GRUPO
PILGRIM’S PRIDE FUNDING HOLDINGS, S. de R.L. de C.V.

     

     

    a Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada
de Capital Variable

     

     

    By:    /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Name:  Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Title:  Attorney-in-Fact

     

     

    COMERCIALIZADORA
DE CARNES DE MÉXICO, S. de R.L. de C.V.

     

     

    a Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada
de Capital Variable

     

     

    By:     /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill                                        

      Name:  Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Title:  Attorney-in-Fact

     

     

    GRUPO
PILGRIM’S PRIDE FUNDING, S. de R.L. de C.V.

     

     

    a Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada
de Capital Variable

     

     

    By:     /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

    Name:  Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Title:  Attorney-in-Fact

     

     

    OPERADORA
DE PRODUCTOS AVÍCOLAS, S. de R.L. de C.V.

     

     

    a Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada
de Capital Variable

     

     

    By:    /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Name:  Richard A.
Cogdill

                                 
Title:  Attorney-in-Fact

     

     

    CARNES
Y PRODUCTOS AVICOLAS de MEXICO, S. de R.L. de C.V.

     

     

    a Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada
de Capital Variable

     

     

    By:     /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Name:  Richard A.
Cogdill

                                 
Title:  Attorney-in-Fact

     

     

    POPPSA
3, LLC

     

     

    By:      /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

                       Name:  Richard
A. Cogdill

                                   Title:  CFO, Secretary
and Treasurer

     

     

    POPPSA
4, LLC

     

     

    By:    /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Name:  Richard A.
Cogdill

                                  Title:  CFO, Secretary
and Treasurer

     

     

    PILGRIM’S
PRIDE, LLC

     

     

    By:    /s/ Richard A.
Cogdill

                                    
Name:  Richard
A. Cogdill

                                   
 Title:  CFO,
Secretary and Treasurer

     

     

    ING CAPITAL LLC,

     

     

    as
Administrative Agent and Sole Lead Arranger

     

     

    

     

     

    By:    /s/ William B.
Redmond

                                  Name:  William B.
Redmond

                                     
Title:  Managing Director

     

     

    ING BANK N.V., acting through
its Curaçao Branch

     

     

    By:    
/s/ Maricella
Bonafacio

                                      
Name:  Maricella
Bonafacio

                               Title:  Head
Transaction Processing

     

     

    By:      /s/ A. C.
Maduro

       Name:  A.
C. Maduro

       Title:  Risk
Managerex10_52.htm

    

      
        
           

        

        
           

          
            

          

        

        
           

        

      

      Exhibit
10.52

       

      Post-Petition
Credit Agreement

       

      

       

      

       

      

       

      

       

      Dated as
of December 2, 2008

       

      

       

      

       

      

       

      

       

      among

       

      

       

      

       

      

       

      Pilgrim’s
Pride Corporation, as Debtor and Debtor-in-Possession,

       

      

       

      

       

      

       

      the
guarantors from time to time parties hereto,

       

      

       

      

       

      

       

      

       

      the
Lenders from time to time parties hereto,

       

      

       

      

       

      

       

      

       

      and

       

      

       

      

       

      

       

      

       

      Bank
of Montreal,

       

      as
DIP Agent

      
        

      

       

      

      
        
          
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            DB1/62267045.3

            

            

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            TABLE
OF CONTENTS

            

            Page

             

          

        

      

      

        
          	
                  Section
      1.

                	
                  The
      Credit Facilities.

                	
                  1

                
	
                   
      Section 1.1

                	
                   
      DIP Commitments

                	
                  1

                
	
                   
      Section 1.2

                	
                   
      Letters of Credit

                	
                  2

                
	
                   
      Section 1.3

                	
                   
      Applicable Interest Rates

                	
                  5

                
	
                   
      Section 1.4

                	
                   
      Minimum Borrowing Amounts

                	
                  5

                
	
                   
      Section 1.5

                	
                   
      Manner of Borrowing DIP Loans

                	
                  5

                
	
                   
      Section 1.6

                	
                   
      Swing Loans

                	
                  6

                
	
                   
      Section 1.7

                	
                   
      Maturity of Loans

                	
                  8

                
	
                   
      Section 1.8

                	
                   
      Prepayments

                	
                  8

                
	
                   
      Section 1.9

                	
                   
      Default Rate

                	
                  10

                
	
                   
      Section 1.10

                	
                   
      Evidence of Indebtedness

                	
                  10

                
	
                   
      Section 1.11

                	
                   
      Commitment Terminations

                	
                  11

                
	
                   
      Section 1.12

                	
                   
      Guaranties

                	
                  11

                
	
                   
      Section 1.13

                	
                   
      Substitution of Lenders

                	
                  11

                
	
                  Section
      2.

                	
                  Fees.

                	
                  12

                
	
                   
      Section 2.1

                	
                   
      Fees

                	
                  12

                
	
                  Section
      3.

                	
                  Place
      and Application of Payments.

                	
                  12

                
	
                   
      Section 3.1

                	
                   
      Place and Application of Payments

                	
                  12

                
	
                   
      Section 3.2

                	
                   
      Account Debit

                	
                  13

                
	
                  Section
      4.

                	
                  The
      Collateral.

                	
                  13

                
	
                   
      Section 4.1

                	
                   
      Security

                	
                  13

                
	
                   
      Section 4.2

                	
                   
      Perfection of Security Interests

                	
                  14

                
	
                   
      Section 4.3

                	
                   
      Receivables and Inventory Collections

                	
                  15

                

        

         

        
          
             

          

          
             

            
              

            

          

          
             

          

        

        
          	
                   
      Section 4.4

                	
                   
      Cash Collateral Account

                	
                  15

                
	
                   
      Section 4.5

                	
                   
      Rights of DIP Agent

                	
                  16

                
	
                   
      Section 4.6

                	
                   
      Performance by DIP Agent of Debtors’ Post-Petition
    Obligations

                	
                  16

                
	
                   
      Section 4.7

                	
                   
      DIP Agent’s Appointment as Attorney-in-Fact

                	
                  16

                
	
                  Section
      5.

                	
                  Definitions;
      Interpretation.

                	
                  18

                
	
                   
      Section 5.1

                	
                   
      Definitions

                	
                  18

                
	
                   
      Section 5.2

                	
                   
      Interpretation

                	
                  39

                
	
                   
      Section 5.3

                	
                   
      Change in Accounting Principles

                	
                  39

                
	
                   
      Section 5.4

                	
                   
      Timing of Payment or Performance

                	
                  39

                
	
                  Section
      6.

                	
                  Representations
      and Warranties

                	
                  40

                
	
                   
      Section 6.1

                	
                   
      Organization and Qualification

                	
                  40

                
	
                   
      Section 6.2

                	
                   
      Subsidiaries

                	
                  40

                
	
                   
      Section 6.3

                	
                   
      Authority and Validity of Obligations

                	
                  40

                
	
                   
      Section 6.4

                	
                   
      Use of Proceeds; Margin Stock

                	
                  41

                
	
                   
      Section 6.5

                	
                   
      Financial Reports

                	
                  41

                
	
                   
      Section 6.6

                	
                   
      No Material Adverse Change

                	
                  41

                
	
                   
      Section 6.7

                	
                   
      Full Disclosure

                	
                  41

                
	
                   
      Section 6.8

                	
                   
      Trademarks, Franchises, and Licenses

                	
                  42

                
	
                   
      Section 6.9

                	
                   
      Governmental Authority and Licensing

                	
                  42

                
	
                   
      Section 6.10

                	
                   
      Good Title

                	
                  42

                
	
                   
      Section 6.11

                	
                   
      Litigation and Other Controversies

                	
                  42

                
	
                   
      Section 6.12

                	
                   
      Taxes

                	
                  42

                
	
                   
      Section 6.13

                	
                   
      Approvals

                	
                  43

                

        

         

        
          
             

          

          
             

            
              

            

          

          
             

          

        

        
          	
                   
      Section 6.14.

                	
                   
      Affiliate Transactions

                	
                  43

                
	
                   
      Section 6.15

                	
                   
      Investment Company

                	
                  43

                
	
                   
      Section 6.16

                	
                   
      ERISA

                	
                  43

                
	
                   
      Section 6.17

                	
                   
      Compliance with Laws

                	
                  43

                
	
                   
      Section 6.18

                	
                   
      Other Agreements

                	
                  44

                
	
                   
      Section 6.19

                	
                   
      No Default

                	
                  44

                
	
                   
      Section 6.20

                	
                   
      Financing Orders

                	
                  44

                
	
                   
      Section 6.21

                	
                   
      Super-Priority Administrative Expense and Liens

                	
                  45

                
	
                  Section
      7.

                	
                  Conditions
      Precedent

                	
                  45

                
	
                  Section
      7.1

                	
                  All
      Credit Events

                	
                  45

                
	
                   
      Section 7.2

                	
                   
      Initial Credit Event

                	
                  46

                
	
                  Section
      8.

                	
                  Covenants

                	
                  49

                
	
                   
      Section 8.1

                	
                   
      Maintenance of Business

                	
                  49

                
	
                   
      Section 8.2

                	
                   
      Maintenance of Properties

                	
                  49

                
	
                   
      Section 8.3

                	
                   
      Taxes and Assessments

                	
                  49

                
	
                   
      Section 8.4

                	
                   
      Insurance

                	
                  49

                
	
                   
      Section 8.5

                	
                   
      Financial Reports

                	
                  50

                
	
                   
      Section 8.6

                	
                   
      Inspection

                	
                  52

                
	
                   
      Section 8.7

                	
                   
      Borrowings and Guaranties

                	
                  53

                
	
                   
      Section 8.8

                	
                   
      Liens

                	
                  55

                
	
                   
      Section 8.9

                	
                   
      Investments, Acquisitions, Loans and Advances

                	
                  58

                
	
                   
      Section 8.10

                	
                   
      Mergers, Consolidations and Sales

                	
                  60

                
	
                   
      Section 8.11

                	
                   
      Maintenance of Subsidiaries

                	
                  61

                

        

         

        
          
             

          

          
             

            
              

            

          

          
             

          

        

        
          	
                   
      Section 8.12

                	
                   
      Dividends and Certain Other Restricted Payments

                	
                  61

                
	
                   
      Section 8.13

                	
                   
      ERISA

                	
                  61

                
	
                   
      Section 8.14

                	
                   
      Compliance with Laws

                	
                  61

                
	
                   
      Section 8.15

                	
                   
      Burdensome Contracts With Affiliates

                	
                  62

                
	
                   
      Section 8.16

                	
                   
      No Changes in Fiscal Year

                	
                  63

                
	
                   
      Section 8.17

                	
                   
      Formation of Subsidiaries

                	
                  63

                
	
                   
      Section 8.18

                	
                   
      Change in the Nature of Business

                	
                  63

                
	
                   
      Section 8.19

                	
                   
      Use of Proceeds

                	
                  63

                
	
                   
      Section 8.20

                	
                   
      No Restrictions

                	
                  63

                
	
                   
      Section 8.21

                	
                   
      DIP Agent’s and Lenders’ Financial Consultant

                	
                  65

                
	
                   
      Section 8.22

                	
                   
      Financial Covenants

                	
                  65

                
	
                   
      Section 8.23

                	
                   
      Chapter 11 Claims

                	
                  65

                
	
                   
      Section 8.24

                	
                   
      Executory Contracts, Pre-Petition Debt and Payments Outside the Ordinary
      Course of Business

                	
                  66

                
	
                   
      Section 8.25

                	
                   
      Restriction on Hedging

                	
                  66

                
	
                   
      Section 8.27

                	
                   
      Subsidiary Distributions, Etc

                	
                  67

                
	
                   
      Section 8.28

                	
                   
      Borrower’s Financial Consultants Engagements; Sale of Certain
      Assets

                	
                  67

                
	
                   
      Section 8.29

                	
                   
      Engagement of Chief Restructuring Officer

                	
                  67

                
	
                  Section
      9.

                	
                  Events
      of Default and Remedies

                	
                  67

                
	
                   
      Section 9.1

                	
                   
      Events of Default

                	
                  67

                
	
                   
      Section 9.2

                	
                   
      Consequences of Event of Default

                	
                  71

                
	
                   
      Section 9.3

                	
                   
      Relief from Stay

                	
                  72

                
	
                  Section
      10.

                	
                  Guarantee

                	
                  72

                
	
                   
      Section 10.1

                	
                   
      Guarantee

                	
                  72

                

        

         

        
          
             

          

          
             

            
              

            

          

          
             

          

        

        
          	
                   
      Section 10.2

                	
                   
      Right of Contribution

                	
                  72

                
	
                   
      Section 10.3

                	
                   
      No Subrogation

                	
                  73

                
	
                   
      Section 10.4

                	
                   
      Amendments, Etc. with Respect to the Post-Petition
    Obligations

                	
                  73

                
	
                   
      Section 10.5

                	
                   
      Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional

                	
                  73

                
	
                   
      Section 10.6

                	
                    Reinstatement

                	
                  74

                
	
                   
      Section 10.7

                	
                   
      Payments

                	
                  74

                
	
                   
      Section 10.8

                	
                   
      Release of Guaranties

                	
                  74

                
	
                  Section
      11.

                	
                  The
      DIP Agent

                	
                  75

                
	
                   
      Section 11.1

                	
                   
      Appointment and Authorization of DIP Agent

                	
                  75

                
	
                   
      Section 11.2

                	
                   
      DIP Agent and its Affiliates

                	
                  75

                
	
                   
      Section 11.3

                	
                   
      Action by DIP Agent

                	
                  75

                
	
                   
      Section 11.4

                	
                   
      Consultation with Experts

                	
                  76

                
	
                   
      Section 11.5

                	
                   
      Liability of DIP Agent; Credit Decision

                	
                  76

                
	
                   
      Section 11.6

                	
                   
      Indemnity

                	
                  76

                
	
                   
      Section 11.7

                	
                   
      Resignation of DIP Agent and Successor DIP Agent

                	
                  77

                
	
                   
      Section 11.8

                	
                   
      L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender

                	
                  77

                
	
                   
      Section 11.9

                	
                   
      Authorization to Release or Subordinate or Limit Liens and to Release
      Guaranties

                	
                  77

                
	
                   
      Section 11.10

                	
                   
      Authorization to Enter into, and Enforcement of, the Collateral
      Documents

                	
                  78

                
	
                  Section
      12.

                	
                  Miscellaneous

                	
                  78

                
	
                   
      Section 12.1

                	
                   
      Withholding Taxes

                	
                  78

                
	
                   
      Section 12.2

                	
                   
      No Waiver, Cumulative Remedies

                	
                  79

                
	
                    
      Section 12.3

                	
                    Non-Business
      Days

                	
                  80

                
	
                   
      Section 12.4

                	
                   
      Documentary Taxes

                	
                  80

                

        

         

        
          
             

          

          
             

            
              

            

          

          
             

          

        

        
          	
                   
      Section 12.5

                	
                  Survival
      of Representations

                	
                  80

                
	
                   
      Section 12.6

                	
                  Survival
      of Indemnities

                	
                  80

                
	
                   
      Section 12.7

                	
                  Sharing
      of Set-Off

                	
                  80

                
	
                   
      Section 12.8

                	
                  Notices

                	
                  80

                
	
                   
      Section 12.9

                	
                  Counterparts

                	
                  82

                
	
                   
      Section 12.10

                	
                  Successors
      and Assigns

                	
                  82

                
	
                   
      Section 12.11

                	
                  Participants

                	
                  82

                
	
                   
      Section 12.12

                	
                  Assignments

                	
                  82

                
	
                   
      Section 12.13

                	
                  Amendments

                	
                  84

                
	
                   
      Section 12.14

                	
                  Headings

                	
                  85

                
	
                   
      Section 12.15

                	
                  Costs
      and Expenses; Indemnification

                	
                  85

                
	
                   
      Section 12.16

                	
                  Set-off

                	
                  86

                
	
                   
      Section 12.17

                	
                  Entire
      Agreement

                	
                  87

                
	
                   
      Section 12.18

                	
                  Governing
      Law

                	
                  87

                
	
                   
      Section 12.19

                	
                  Severability
      of Provisions

                	
                  87

                
	
                   
      Section 12.20

                	
                  Excess
      Interest

                	
                  87

                
	
                   
      Section 12.21

                	
                  Construction

                	
                  88

                
	
                   
      Section 12.22

                	
                  Lender’s
      and L/C Issuer’s Obligations Several

                	
                  88

                
	
                   
      Section 12.23

                	
                  Submission
      to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial

                	
                  88

                
	
                   
      Section 12.24

                	
                  USA
      Patriot Act

                	
                  88

                
	
                   
      Section 12.25

                	
                  No
      Modification; No Discharge; Survival of Claims

                	
                  88

                
	
                   
      Section 12.26

                	
                  Pre-Petition
      BMO Loan Documents

                	
                  89

                
	
                   
      Section 12.27

                	
                  Bankruptcy
      Code Waivers

                	
                  89

                

        

         

        
          
             

          

          
             

            
              

            

          

          
             

          

        

        
          	
                   
      Section 12.28

                	
                  Validation
      of Liens

                	
                  89

                
	
                   
      Section 12.29

                	
                  Confidentiality

                	
                  89

                
	
                   
      Section 12.30

                	
                  Disclosure

                	
                  90

                

        

        
          
             

          

          
             

            
              

            

          

          
             

          

        

       

       

      

      
        
          
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      Exhibit A—Notice
of Payment Request

       

      Exhibit B—Notice
of Borrowing

       

      Exhibit C—Interim
Financing Order

       

      Exhibit D-1—Revolving
Note

       

      Exhibit D-2—Swing
Note

       

      Exhibit E—Borrowing
Base Certificate

       

      Exhibit F—Compliance
Certificate

       

      Exhibit G—Additional
Guarantor Supplement

       

      Exhibit H—Assignment
and Acceptance

       

      Exhibit I—Cash
Management Order

       

      Exhibit J—Material
Executory Contracts

       

      

       

      Schedule 1—Commitments

       

      Schedule 6.2—Subsidiaries

       

      Schedule 6.16—ERISA

       

      Schedule 8.7—Indebtedness
Outstanding on the Petition Date

       

      Schedule 8.8—Liens
Existing on the Petition Date

       

      Schedule 8.9(c)—Investments
Existing on the Petition Date

       

      Schedule 8.9(q)—Insurance
Subsidiaries’ Investment Policies on the Petition Date

       

      Schedule 8.13—ERISA
Plan Termination

       

      
        
           

        

        
           

          
            

          

        

        
           

        

      

      Post-Petition
Credit Agreement

       

      This
Post-Petition Credit Agreement is entered into as of December 2, 2008, by
and among Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), as debtor and
debtor-in-possession in a case pending under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy
Code, the direct and indirect Domestic Subsidiaries of the Borrower from time to
time party to this Agreement, as Guarantors, each as debtor and
debtor-in-possession (the Borrower and the Guarantors, each a “Debtor” and collectively the
“Debtors”) in a case
pending under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code (the cases of the Borrower
and the Guarantors, each a “Chapter 11 Case” and,
collectively, the “Chapter 11 Cases”), the
several financial institutions from time to time party to this Agreement, as
Lenders, and Bank of Montreal, a Canadian chartered bank acting through its
Chicago branch, as DIP Agent as provided herein.  All capitalized
terms used herein without definition shall have the same meanings herein as such
terms are defined in Section 5.1 hereof.

       

      Preliminary
Statement

       

      On
December 1, 2008 (the “Petition Date”) the Debtors
filed voluntary petitions with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the
Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth Division, initiating the Chapter 11
Cases and have continued in possession of their assets and the management of
their businesses pursuant to Sections 1107 and 1108 of the Bankruptcy
Code;

       

      The
Borrower owns, directly or indirectly, all of the issued and outstanding capital
stock or other equity interests of each of the Guarantors;

       

      The
Borrower and the Guarantors have requested that the Lenders enter into certain
financing arrangements with the Borrower pursuant to which the Lenders may make
loans and provide other financial accommodations to the Borrower;

       

      Whereas,
the Lenders are willing to make such loans and advances and provide such
financial accommodations on the terms and conditions set forth
herein.

       

      Now,
Therefore, in consideration of the mutual agreements contained herein, and other
good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

       

      Section
1.                                The
Credit Facilities.

       

      Section
1.1                                DIP
Commitments.  Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each
Lender, by its acceptance hereof, severally agrees to make a loan or loans
(individually a “DIP
Loan” and collectively for all the Lenders the “DIP Loans”) in U.S. Dollars
to the Borrower from time to time on a revolving basis up to the amount of such
Lender’s DIP Commitment, subject to any reductions thereof pursuant to the terms
hereof, before the Termination Date.  The sum of the aggregate
principal amount of DIP Loans, Swing Loans, and L/C Obligations at any time
outstanding shall not exceed the lesser of (i) the DIP Commitments in
effect at such time and (ii) the Borrowing Base as determined based on the
most recent Borrowing Base Certificate.  Each Borrowing of DIP Loans
shall be made ratably by the Lenders in proportion to their respective DIP
Percentages.  DIP Loans may be repaid and the principal amount thereof
reborrowed before the Termination Date, subject to the terms and conditions
hereof.

       

      Section
1.2                                Letters of
Credit.  (a) General
Terms.  Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, as part of
the DIP Credit, the L/C Issuer shall issue standby and commercial letters
of credit (each a “Letter of
Credit”) for the account of Borrower or for the account of the Guarantors
in an aggregate undrawn face amount up to the L/C Sublimit and for purposes that
are permitted under Section 8.19 hereof.  Each Letter of Credit
shall be issued by the L/C Issuer, but each Lender shall be obligated to
reimburse the L/C Issuer for such Lender’s DIP Percentage of the amount of
each drawing thereunder and, accordingly, each Letter of Credit shall constitute
usage of the DIP Commitment of each Lender pro rata in an amount equal to its
DIP Percentage of the L/C Obligations then outstanding.

       

      (b)Applications.  At
any time before the Termination Date, the L/C Issuer shall, at the request
of the Borrower, issue one or more Letters of Credit in U.S. Dollars, in a form
satisfactory to the L/C Issuer upon the receipt of an application duly
executed by the Borrower for the relevant Letter of Credit in the form then
customarily prescribed by the L/C Issuer for the Letter of Credit requested
(each an “Application”).  Each
Letter of Credit shall have an expiration date that is 30 days from the date of
its issuance and shall be automatically extended for an additional 30 days
unless the L/C Issuer gives the beneficiary thereof at least 30 days prior
written notice that the expiration date will not so extend beyond its then
scheduled expiration date, provided that in no event may the expiration date of
any Letter of Credit extend beyond the Maturity Date.  Any Letters of
Credit that expire after the Termination Date must be fully cash collateralized
on the Termination Date by cash held in a Cash Collateral Account and otherwise
under the exclusive control of the DIP Agent in an amount equal to 105% of the
maximum amount available to be drawn thereunder, or be supported by a letter of
credit issued by a bank acceptable to the Required Lenders and that is
satisfactory in form and substance to the Required Lenders.  The
L/C Issuer may give notice of non-renewal to the beneficiary of any Letter
of Credit issued hereunder at any time in its sole
discretion.  Notwithstanding anything contained in any Application to
the contrary:  (i) the Borrower shall pay fees in connection with
each Letter of Credit as set forth in Section 2.1(b) hereof,
(ii) except as otherwise provided in this Section and in
Section 1.8 hereof, unless an Event of Default exists, the L/C Issuer
will not call for the funding by the Borrower of any amount under a Letter of
Credit before being presented with a drawing thereunder, and (iii) if the
L/C Issuer is not timely reimbursed by the Borrower for the amount of any
drawing under a Letter of Credit on the date such drawing is paid, the
Borrower’s obligation to reimburse the L/C Issuer for the amount of such
drawing shall bear interest (which the Borrower hereby promises to pay) from and
after the date such drawing is paid at the Default Rate.  Unless the
DIP Agent or the Required Lenders instruct the L/C Issuer otherwise, the
L/C Issuer will give each beneficiary of a Letter of Credit notice of
non-renewal before the time necessary to prevent the automatic extension thereof
if before such required notice date:  (i) the expiration date of
such Letter of Credit if so extended would be after the Termination Date,
(ii) the DIP Commitments have been terminated, or (iii) a Default or
an Event of Default exists and either the DIP Agent or the Required Lenders
(with notice to the DIP Agent) have given the L/C Issuer instructions not
to so permit the extension of the expiration date of such Letter of
Credit.  The L/C Issuer shall also issue amendments to the
Letter(s) of Credit increasing the amount thereof at the request of the
Borrower, subject to the conditions of Section 7 hereof and the other terms
of this Section 1.2.  The Borrower shall provide to the DIP Agent
cash collateral in an amount equal to 105% of the maximum amount available to be
drawn under all Letters of Credit outstanding hereunder as part of a plan of
reorganization of the Borrower.

       

      (c)           The Reimbursement
Obligations.  Subject to Section 1.2(b) hereof, the
obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the L/C Issuer for all drawings
under a Letter of Credit (a “Reimbursement Obligation”)
shall be governed by the Application related to such Letter of Credit, except
that reimbursement shall be made by no later than 2:00 p.m. (Chicago time) on
the date when each drawing is to be paid if the Borrower has been informed of
such drawing by the L/C Issuer on or before 10:00 a.m. (Chicago time)
on the date when such drawing is to be paid or, if notice of such drawing is
given to the Borrower after 10:00 a.m. (Chicago time) on the date when such
drawing is to be paid, by no later than 2:00 p.m. (Chicago time) on the
following Business Day, in immediately available funds at the DIP Agent’s
principal office in Chicago, Illinois, or such other office as the DIP Agent may
designate in writing to the Borrower (who shall thereafter cause to be
distributed to the L/C Issuer such amount(s) in like funds).  If
the Borrower does not make any such reimbursement payment on the date due and
the Participating Lenders fund their participations therein in the manner set
forth in Section 1.2(e) below, then all payments thereafter received by the
DIP Agent in discharge of any of the relevant Reimbursement Obligations shall be
distributed in accordance with Section 1.2(e) below.

       

      (d)           Obligations
Absolute.  The Borrower’s obligation to reimburse L/C
Obligations as provided in subsection (c) of this Section shall be
absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be performed strictly in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the relevant Application under
any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack of
validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, or any
term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other document presented under a
Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent or invalid in any respect or
any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect, or (iii) any
other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section, constitute a
legal or equitable discharge of, or provide a right of setoff against, the
Borrower’s obligations hereunder.  None of the DIP Agent, the Lenders,
or the L/C Issuer shall have any liability or responsibility by reason of
or in connection with the issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any
payment or failure to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the
circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error, omission,
interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of any draft, notice or
other communication under or relating to any Letter of Credit (including any
document required to make a drawing thereunder), any error in interpretation of
technical terms or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of the
L/C Issuer; provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to excuse
the L/C Issuer from liability to the Borrower to the extent of any direct
damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in respect of which are
hereby waived by the Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law)
suffered by the Borrower that are caused by the L/C Issuer’s failure to
exercise care when determining whether drafts and other documents presented
under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof.  The parties
hereto expressly agree that, in the absence of bad faith, gross negligence or
willful misconduct on the part of the L/C Issuer (as finally determined by
a court of competent jurisdiction), the L/C Issuer shall be deemed to have
exercised care in each such determination.  In furtherance of the
foregoing and without limiting the generality thereof, the parties agree that,
with respect to documents presented which appear on their face to be in
substantial compliance with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer
may, in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents
without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or
information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such
documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such
Letter of Credit.

       

      (e)           The Participating
Interests.  Each Lender (other than the Lender acting as
L/C Issuer in issuing the relevant Letter of Credit), by its acceptance
hereof, severally agrees to purchase from the L/C Issuer, and the
L/C Issuer hereby agrees to sell to each such Lender (a “Participating Lender”), an
undivided percentage participating interest (a “Participating Interest”), to
the extent of its DIP Percentage, in each Letter of Credit issued by, and each
Reimbursement Obligation owed to, the L/C Issuer and any Cash Collateral
therefor.  Upon any failure by the Borrower to pay any
Reimburse­ment Obligation at the time required on the date the related
drawing is to be paid, as set forth in Section 1.2(c) above, or if the
L/C Issuer is required at any time to return to the Borrower or to a
trustee, receiver, liquidator, custodian or other Person any portion of any
payment of any Reimbursement Obligation, each Participating Lender shall, not
later than the Business Day it receives a certificate in the form of
Exhibit A hereto from the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the DIP Agent) to
such effect, if such certificate is received before 1:00 p.m. (Chicago
time), or not later than 1:00 p.m. (Chicago time) the following Business
Day, if such certificate is received after such time, pay to the DIP Agent for
the account of the L/C Issuer an amount equal to such Participating
Lender’s DIP Percentage of such unpaid or recap­tured Reimbursement
Obligation together with interest on such amount accrued from the date the
related payment was made by the L/C Issuer to the date of such payment by
such Participating Lender at a rate per annum equal to:  (i) from
the date the related payment was made by the L/C Issuer to the date two
(2) Business Days after payment by such Participating Lender is due
hereunder, the Federal Funds Rate for each such day and (ii) from the date
two (2) Business Days after the date such payment is due from such
Participating Lender to the date such payment is made by such Participating
Lender, the Base Rate in effect for each such day.  Each such
Participating Lender shall thereafter be entitled to receive its DIP Percentage
of each payment received in respect of the relevant Reimbursement Obligation and
of interest paid thereon and any Cash Collateral therefor, with the
L/C Issuer retaining its DIP Percentage thereof as a Lender
hereunder.  The several obligations of the Participating Lenders to
the L/C Issuer under this Section 1.2 shall be absolute, irrevocable,
and unconditional under any and all circumstances whatsoever and shall not be
subject to any set-off, counterclaim or defense to payment which any
Participating Lender may have or have had against the Borrower, the
L/C Issuer, the DIP Agent, any Lender or any other Person
whatsoever.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such
obligations shall not be affected by any Default or Event of Default or by any
reduction or termination of any DIP Commitment of any Lender, and each payment
by a Participating Lender under this Section 1.2 shall be made without any
offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.

       

      (f)           Indemnification.  The
Participating Lenders shall, to the extent of their respective DIP Percentages,
indemnify the L/C Issuer (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower)
against any cost, expense (including reasonable counsel fees and disbursements),
claim, demand, action, loss or liability (except such as result from such
L/C Issuer’s gross negligence or willful misconduct) that the
L/C Issuer may suffer or incur in connection with any Letter of Credit
issued by it.  The obligations of the Participating Lenders under this
Section 1.2(f) and all other parts of this Section 1.2 shall survive
termination of this Agreement and of all Applications, Letters of Credit, and
all drafts and other documents presented in connection with drawings
thereunder.

       

      (g)           Manner of Requesting a Letter of
Credit.  The Borrower shall provide at least five
(5) Business Days’ advance written notice to the DIP Agent of each request
for the issuance of a Letter of Credit, such notice in each case to be
accompanied by an Application for such Letter of Credit properly completed and
executed by the Borrower and, in the case of an extension (other than an
automatic extension) or amendment or an increase in the amount of a Letter of
Credit, a written request therefor, in a form acceptable to the DIP Agent and
the L/C Issuer, in each case, together with the fronting fee called for by
this Agreement.  The DIP Agent shall promptly notify the
L/C Issuer of the DIP Agent’s receipt of each such notice (and the
L/C Issuer shall be entitled to assume that the conditions precedent to any
such issuance, extension, amendment or increase have been satisfied unless
notified to the contrary by the DIP Agent or the Required Lenders) and the
L/C Issuer shall promptly notify the DIP Agent and the Lenders of the
issuance of the Letter of Credit so requested.

       

      (h)           Replacement of the
L/C Issuer.  The L/C Issuer may be replaced at any
time by written agreement among the Borrower, the DIP Agent, the replaced
L/C Issuer and the successor L/C Issuer.  The DIP Agent
shall notify the Lenders of any such replacement of the
L/C Issuer.  At the time any such replacement shall become
effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued for the account of the
replaced L/C Issuer.  From and after the effective date of any
such replacement (i) the successor L/C Issuer shall have all the
rights and obligations of the L/C Issuer under this Agreement with respect
to Letters of Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to
the term “L/C Issuer” shall be
deemed to refer to such successor or to any previous L/C Issuer, or to such
successor and all previous L/C Issuers, as the context shall
require.  After the replacement of a L/C Issuer hereunder, the
replaced L/C Issuer shall remain a party hereto and shall continue to have
all the rights and obligations of a L/C Issuer under this Agreement with
respect to Letters of Credit issued by it prior to such replacement, but shall
not be required to issue additional Letters of Credit.

       

      Section
1.3                                Applicable Interest
Rates.  (a) DIP Loans.  Each
DIP Loan made or maintained by a Lender shall bear interest (computed on the
basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and the actual days
elapsed) on the unpaid principal amount thereof from the date such Loan is
advanced until maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) at a rate per
annum equal to the sum of eight percent (8.0%) plus the Base Rate from time to
time in effect, payable by the Borrower monthly in arrears on the last day of each calendar
month in each year (commencing on the first such date occurring after the date
hereof) and at
maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise).

       

      (b)           Rate
Determinations.  The DIP Agent shall determine each interest
rate applicable to the Loans and the Reimbursement Obligations hereunder, and
its determination thereof shall be conclusive and binding except in the case of
manifest error.

       

      Section
1.4                                Minimum Borrowing
Amounts.  Each Borrowing advanced shall be in an amount not
less than $1,000,000 or any greater amount which is an integral multiple of
$100,000.

       

      Section
1.5                                Manner of Borrowing DIP
Loans.  (a) Notice to the DIP Agent.  The
Borrower shall give notice to the DIP Agent by no later than 12:00 noon
(Chicago time) on the date the Borrower requests the Lenders to advance a
Borrowing of DIP Loans.  The Borrower shall give all such notices to
the DIP Agent by telephone, telecopy, or other telecommunication device
acceptable to the DIP Agent (which notice shall be irrevocable once given and,
if by telephone, shall be promptly confirmed in writing), substantially in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit B (Notice of Borrowing) or in such other
form acceptable to the DIP Agent.  All such notices shall specify the
date of the requested advance (which shall be a Business Day) and the amount of
the requested Borrowing to be advanced.  The Borrower agrees that the
DIP Agent may rely on any such telephonic, telecopy or other telecommunication
notice given by any person the DIP Agent in good faith believes is an Authorized
Representative without the necessity of independent investigation, and in the
event any such notice by telephone conflicts with any written confirmation such
telephonic notice shall govern if the DIP Agent has acted in reliance
thereon.

       

      (b)           Notice to the
Lenders.  The DIP Agent shall give prompt telephonic, telecopy
or other telecommunication notice to each Lender of any notice from the Borrower
received pursuant to Section 1.5(a) above.

       

      (c)           Borrower’s Failure to
Notify.  In the event the Borrower fails to give notice
pursuant to Section 1.5(a) above of a Borrowing equal to the amount of a
Reimbursement Obligation and has not notified the DIP Agent by 12:00 noon
(Chicago time) on the day such Reimbursement Obligation becomes due that it
intends to repay such Reimbursement Obligation through funds not borrowed under
this Agreement, the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a Borrowing of
DIP Loans under the DIP Credit on such day in the amount of the Reimbursement
Obligation then due, which Borrowing shall be applied to pay the Reimbursement
Obligation then due.

       

      (d)           Disbursement of
Loans.  Not later than 1:00 p.m. (Chicago time) on the
date of any requested advance of a new Borrowing, subject to Section 7
hereof, each Lender shall make available its DIP Loan comprising part of such
Borrowing in funds immediately available at the principal office of the DIP
Agent in Chicago, Illinois (or at such other location as the DIP Agent shall
designate).  The DIP Agent shall make the proceeds of each new
Borrowing available to the Borrower at the DIP Agent’s principal office in
Chicago, Illinois (or at such other location as the DIP Agent shall designate),
by depositing or wire transferring such proceeds to the credit of the Borrower’s
Designated Disbursement Account or as the Borrower and the DIP Agent may
otherwise agree.

       

      (e)           DIP Agent Reliance on Lender
Funding.  Unless the DIP Agent shall have been notified by a
Lender prior to 1:00 p.m. (Chicago time) on the date on which such Lender
is scheduled to make payment to the DIP Agent of the proceeds of a DIP Loan
(which notice shall be effective upon receipt) that such Lender does not intend
to make such payment, the DIP Agent may assume that such Lender has made such
payment when due and the DIP Agent may in reliance upon such assumption (but
shall not be required to) make available to the Borrower the proceeds of the DIP
Loan to be made by such Lender and, if any Lender has not in fact made such
payment to the DIP Agent, such Lender shall, on demand, pay to the DIP Agent the
amount made available to the Borrower attributable to such Lender together with
interest thereon in respect of each day during the period commencing on the date
such amount was made available to the Borrower and ending on (but excluding) the
date such Lender pays such amount to the DIP Agent at a rate per annum equal
to:  (i) from the date the related advance was made by the DIP
Agent to the date two (2) Business Days after payment by such Lender is due
hereunder, the Federal Funds Rate for each such day and (ii) from the date
two (2) Business Days after the date such payment is due from such Lender
to the date such payment is made by such Lender, the Base Rate in effect for
each such day.  If such amount is not received from such Lender by the
DIP Agent immediately upon demand, the Borrower will, on demand, repay to the
DIP Agent the proceeds of the Loan attributable to such Lender with interest
thereon at a rate per annum equal to the interest rate applicable to the
relevant DIP Loan.

       

      Section
1.6                                Swing
Loans.  (a) Generally.  Subject
to the terms and conditions hereof, as part of the DIP Credit, the Swing Line
Lender will make loans in U.S. Dollars to the Borrower under the Swing Line
(individually a “Swing
Loan” and collectively the “Swing Loans”) which shall not
in the aggregate at any time outstanding exceed the Swing Line
Sublimit.  Swing Loans may be availed of from time to time and
borrowings thereunder may be repaid and used again during the period ending on
the Termination Date.  Each Swing Loan shall be in a minimum amount of
$500,000 or such greater amount which is an integral multiple of
$100,000.

       

      (b)           Interest on Swing
Loans.  Each Swing Loan shall bear interest until maturity
(whether by acceleration or otherwise) at a rate per annum equal to the sum of
the Base Rate plus eight percent (8%) (computed on the basis of a year of 365 or
366 days, as the case may be, for the actual number of days
elapsed).  Interest on each Swing Loan shall be due and payable by the
Borrower monthly in arrears on the last day of each calendar
month in each year (commencing on the first such date occurring after the date
hereof) and at maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise).

       

      (c)           Requests for Swing
Loans.  The Borrower shall give the DIP Agent prior notice
(which may be written or oral) no later than 3:00 p.m. (Chicago time) on
the date upon which the Borrower requests that any Swing Loan be made, of the
amount and date of such Swing Loan.  Subject to the terms and
conditions hereof, the proceeds of each Swing Loan extended to the Borrower
shall be deposited or otherwise wire transferred to the Borrower’s Designated
Disbursement Account or as the Borrower, the DIP Agent, and the Swing Line
Lender may otherwise agree.  Anything contained in the foregoing to
the contrary notwithstanding, the undertaking of the Swing Line Lender to make
Swing Loans shall be subject to all of the terms and conditions of this
Agreement (provided that the Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to assume that
the conditions precedent to an advance of any Swing Loan have been satisfied
unless notified to the contrary by the DIP Agent or the Required
Lenders).

       

      (d)           Refunding
Loans.  In its sole and absolute discretion, the Swing Line
Lender may at any time, on behalf of the Borrower (which hereby irrevocably
authorizes the Swing Line Lender to act on its behalf for such purpose) and with
notice to the Borrower and the DIP Agent, request each Lender to make a DIP Loan
in an amount equal to such Lender’s DIP Percentage of the amount of the Swing
Loans outstanding on the date such notice is given.  Regardless of the
existence of any Event of Default, each Lender shall make the proceeds of its
requested DIP Loan available to the DIP Agent for the account of the Swing Line
Lender), in immediately available funds, at the DIP Agent’s office in Chicago,
Illinois (or such other location designated by the DIP Agent), before 12 Noon
(Chicago time) on the Business Day following the day such notice is
given.  The DIP Agent shall promptly remit the proceeds of such
Borrowing to the Swing Line Lender to repay the outstanding Swing
Loans.

       

      (e)           Participations.  If
any Lender refuses or otherwise fails to make a DIP Loan when requested by the
Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 1.6(d) above for any reason, such
Lender will, by the time and in the manner such DIP Loan was to have been funded
to the Swing Line Lender, purchase from the Swing Line Lender an undivided
participating interest in the outstanding Swing Loans in an amount equal to its
DIP Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Swing Loans that were to
have been repaid with such DIP Loans.  Each Lender that so purchases a
participation in a Swing Loan shall thereafter be entitled to receive its DIP
Percentage of each payment of principal received on the Swing Loan and of
interest received thereon accruing from the date such Lender funded to the Swing
Line Lender its participation in such Loan.  The several obligations
of the Lenders under this Section shall be absolute, irrevocable, and
unconditional under any and all circumstances whatsoever and shall not be
subject to any set-off, counterclaim or defense to payment which any Lender may
have or have had against the Borrower, any other Lender, or any other Person
whatsoever.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, such
obligations shall not be affected by any Default or Event of Default or by any
reduction or termination of the DIP Commitments of any Lender, and each payment
made by a Lender under this Section shall be made without any offset,
abatement, withholding, or reduction whatsoever.

       

      Section
1.7                                Maturity of
Loans.  (a) DIP Loans.  Each
DIP Loan, both for principal and interest not sooner paid, shall mature and be
due and payable by the Borrower on the Termination Date.

       

      (b)           Swing Loans.  Each
Swing Loan, both for principal and interest not sooner paid, shall mature and be
due and payable by the Borrower on the Termination Date.

       

      Section
1.8                                Prepayments.  (a) Optional.  The
Borrower may prepay in whole or in part
(but, if in part, then in an amount not less than $1,000,000 and in any event in
an amount such that the amount of such Borrowing that remains outstanding after
such prepayment is not less than $1,000,000) any Borrowing of Loans upon notice
delivered by the Borrower to the DIP Agent no later than 10:00 a.m.
(Chicago time) on the date of prepayment (or, in any case, such shorter period
of time then agreed to by the DIP Agent), such prepayment to be made by the
payment of the principal amount to be prepaid.

       

      (b)           Mandatory.  (i) If
any Dispositions or Events of Loss with respect to any Property that includes
any Pre-Petition BMO Primary Collateral, Pre-Petition CoBank Primary Collateral
or Collateral (in
an amount in excess of $1,000,000 in the aggregate) occur prior to the
Termination Date and outside the ordinary course of business (no such
Disposition to occur without Bankruptcy Court approval and with the Lenders
reserving all rights, if any, to object to any such Disposition), 100% of the
Net Proceeds thereof in excess of $1,000,000 (or any greater amount that is a
whole multiple of $250,000) in the aggregate (the “Prepayment Amount”) shall be
applied as follows:

       

      (A)           First,
to the costs, fees and expenses of the DIP Agent and the Lenders (including
without limitation the reasonable fees and expenses of their counsel and other
professionals, including those previously employed or retained by the DIP Agent
and the Lenders);

       

      (B)           Second,
to interest and fees then due and then to the prepayment of all outstanding
Loans and unreimbursed Reimbursement Obligations hereunder until all such Loans
and Reimbursement Obligations shall be fully paid (but without any reduction in
the DIP Commitments resulting from such prepayments);

       

      (C)           Third,
to be held by the DIP Agent in the Cash Collateral Account (including to prefund
outstanding Letters of Credit in an amount equal to 105% of the amount of all
such Letters of Credit) until released or applied pursuant to Section 4.4
hereof (but without any reduction in the DIP Commitments resulting from such
prepayments); and

       

      (D)           Fourth,
as the Financing Order shall provide if then in effect and otherwise as shall be
determined by the Bankruptcy Court.

       

      Any such
proceeds of sale designated to pay such taxes and costs of sale which are not
required to be disbursed at the closing of such sale shall be held in escrow by
the DIP Agent and shall be subject to the Lien of the DIP Agent, the Lenders,
the Pre-Petition BMO Agent, the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders, the Pre-Petition
CoBank Agent and the Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders until applied to pay
such taxes and costs of sale and the amount of all obligations secured by
Permitted Liens that are senior to the DIP Agent’s in the Collateral and the
Replacement Liens.

       

       

      (ii)           Prior
to the Termination Date, all Available Unrestricted Cash (including without
limitation all Available Unrestricted Cash consisting of proceeds of the
inventory and proceeds of the accounts receivable of the Borrower and the
Guarantors and all Cash Collateral generated in the ordinary course of the
Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ businesses) determined as of 12:00 noon, Chicago
time, on any Business Day (other than amounts subject to Section 1.8(b)(i)
hereof) in excess of $15,000,000 shall be deposited in the Collection Accounts
referred to in Section 4.3 hereof
and applied daily as follows:

       

      (A)First,
to the costs, fees and expenses of the DIP Agent and the Lenders (including
without limitation the reasonable fees and expenses of their counsel and other
professionals, including those previously employed or retained by the DIP Agent
and the Lenders) that are then due and payable;

       

      (B)Second,
to interest and fees then due and payable and then to the prepayment of all
outstanding Loans and unreimbursed Reimbursement Obligations hereunder until all
such Loans and Reimbursement Obligations shall be fully paid (but without any
reduction in the DIP Commitments resulting from such prepayments);
and

       

      (C)Third,
to be held by the DIP Agent in the Cash Collateral Account (including to prefund
outstanding Letters of Credit in an amount equal to 105% of the amount of all
such Letters of Credit) until released or applied pursuant to Section 4.4
hereof.

       

      (iii)           The
Borrower shall, on each date the DIP Commitments are reduced pursuant to
Section 1.11 hereof, prepay the DIP Loans, Swing Loans, and, if necessary,
prefund the L/C Obligations by the amount, if any, necessary to reduce the sum
of the aggregate principal amount of DIP Loans, Swing Loans, and L/C Obligations
then outstanding to the amount to which the DIP Commitments have been so
reduced.

       

      (iv)           If
at any time the sum of the unpaid principal balance of the DIP Loans, Swing
Loans, and the L/C Obligations then outstanding shall be in excess of the
lesser of the DIP Commitments then in effect and the Borrowing Base as
determined on the basis of the most recent Borrowing Base Certificate, the
Borrower shall immediately and without notice or demand pay over the amount of
the excess to the DIP Agent for the account of the Lenders as and for a
mandatory prepayment on such Post-Petition Obligations, with each such
prepayment first to be applied to the DIP Loans and Swing Loans until paid in
full with any remaining balance to be held by the DIP Agent in the Cash
Collateral Account as security for the Post-Petition Obligations owing with
respect to outstanding Letters of Credit.

       

      (v)           Each
prepayment of Loans under this Section 1.8(b) shall be made by the payment
of the principal amount to be prepaid.  Each prefunding of L/C
Obligations shall be made in accordance with Section 4.4
hereof.

       

      (b)           Any
amount of DIP Loans and Swing Loans paid or prepaid before the Termination Date
may, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, be borrowed, repaid
and borrowed again.

       

      Section
1.9                                Default
Rate.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained
herein, while any Event of Default exists and is continuing or after
acceleration, the Borrower shall pay interest (after as well as before entry of
judgment thereon to the extent permitted by law) on the principal amount of all
Loans and Reimbursement Obligations, and letter of credit fees at a rate per
annum (the “Default
Rate”), equal to:

       

      (a)           for
any Loan, the sum of 10.0% plus the Base Rate from time to time in
effect;

       

      (b)           for
any Reimbursement Obligation, the sum of 2.0% plus the amounts due under
Section 1.2 with respect to such Reimbursement Obligation; and

       

      (c)           for
any Letter of Credit, the sum of 2.0% plus the letter of credit fee due under
Section 2.1 with respect to such Letter of Credit.

       

      Interest
at the Default Rate shall be paid on demand of the DIP Agent at the request or
with the consent of the Required Lenders.  Any applicable stay shall
be deemed to be lifted to the extent necessary to permit the DIP Agent and the
Lenders to exercise their rights under this Section.

       

       

      Section
1.10                                Evidence of
Indebtedness.  (a) Each Lender shall maintain in
accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing the
indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by
such Lender from time to time, including the amounts of principal and interest
payable and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder.

       

      (b)           The
DIP Agent shall also maintain accounts in which it will record (i) the
amount of each Loan made hereunder, (ii) the amount of any principal or
interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each
Lender hereunder and (iii) the amount of any sum received by the DIP Agent
hereunder from the Borrower and each Lender’s share thereof.

       

      (c)           The
entries maintained in the accounts maintained pursuant to paragraphs (a)
and (b) above shall be prima facie evidence, absent manifest error, of the
existence and amounts of the Post-Petition Obligations therein recorded;
provided, however, that the failure of the DIP Agent or any Lender to maintain
such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the obligation
of the Borrower to repay the Post-Petition Obligations in accordance with their
terms.

       

      (d)           Any
Lender may request that its Loans be evidenced by a promissory note or notes in
the forms of Exhibit D-1 (in the case of its DIP Loans and referred to
herein as a “Revolving
Note”), or D-2 (in the case of its Swing Loans and referred to herein as
a “Swing Note”), as
applicable (the Revolving Notes and Swing Note being hereinafter referred to
collectively as the “Notes” and individually as a
“Note”).  In
such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a
Note payable to such Lender or its registered assigns in the amount of the
relevant DIP Commitment, or Swing Line Sublimit, as
applicable.  Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such Note or Notes and
interest thereon shall at all times (including after any assignment pursuant to
Section 12.12) be represented by one or more Notes payable to the order of
the payee named therein or any assignee pursuant to Section 12.12, except
to the extent that any such Lender or assignee subsequently returns any such
Note for cancellation and requests that such Loans once again be evidenced as
described in subsections (a) and (b) above.

       

      Section
1.11                                Commitment
Terminations.  (a) Optional DIP Credit
Terminations.  The Borrower shall have the right at any time
and from time to time, upon five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice to
the DIP Agent (or such shorter period of time agreed to by the DIP Agent), to
terminate the DIP Commitments without premium or penalty and in whole or in
part, any partial termination to be (i) in an amount not less than
$5,000,000 and
(ii) allocated ratably among the Lenders in proportion to their respective
DIP Percentages, provided that the DIP Commitments may not be reduced to an
amount less than the sum of the aggregate principal amount of DIP Loans, Swing
Loans, and L/C Obligations then outstanding (after giving effect to any
concurrent prepayments).  Any termination of the DIP Commitments below
the L/C Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit then in effect shall reduce the
L/C Sublimit and Swing Line Sublimit, as applicable, by a like
amount.  The DIP Agent shall give prompt notice to each Lender of any
such termination of the DIP Commitments.

       

      (b)           Any
termination of the DIP Commitments pursuant to this Section 1.11 may not be
reinstated.

       

      Section
1.12                                Guaranties.  The
payment and performance of the Post-Petition Obligations, shall at all times be
guaranteed by each direct and indirect Domestic Subsidiary of the Borrower that
is a Debtor in a Chapter 11 Case pursuant to Section 10 hereof or pursuant
to one or more guaranty agreements in form and substance acceptable to the DIP
Agent, as the same may be amended, modified or supplemented from time to time
(individually a “Guaranty” and, collectively,
the “Guaranties,” and
each such Subsidiary executing and delivering this Agreement as a Guarantor
(including any Subsidiary hereafter executing and delivering an Additional
Guarantor Supplement substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto) or a
separate Guaranty, a “Guarantor” and, collectively,
the “Guarantors”).

       

      Section
1.13                                Substitution of
Lenders.  Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
Section 12.13, in the event that the Borrower requests that this Agreement
be modified or amended in a manner which would require the unanimous consent of
all of the Lenders and such modification or amendment is agreed to by the
Super-majority Lenders, then with the consent of the Borrower and the
Super-majority Lenders, the Borrower, the DIP Agent and the Super-majority
Lenders shall be permitted to amend this Agreement without the consent of the
Lender or Lenders which did not agree to the modification or amendment requested
by the Borrower (such Lender or Lenders, collectively the “Minority Lenders”) to provide
for (w) the termination of the DIP Commitment of each of the Minority Lenders,
(x) the addition to this Agreement of one or more other financial institutions
(each of which shall be an Eligible Assignee), or an increase in the DIP
Commitment of one or more of the Super-majority Lenders, so that the DIP
Commitments after giving effect to such amendment shall be in the same amount as
the DIP Commitments immediately before giving effect to such amendment, (y) if
any Loans are outstanding at the time of such amendment, the making of such
additional Loans by such new financial institutions or Super-majority Lender or
Lenders, as the case may be, as may be necessary to repay in full the
outstanding Loans of, and all other amounts owed under the Loan Documents to,
the Minority Lenders immediately before giving effect to such amendment and (z)
such other modifications to this Agreement as may be appropriate.

       

      Section
2.                                Fees.

       

      Section
2.1                                Fees.  (a) DIP Commitment
Fee.  The Borrower shall pay to the DIP Agent for the ratable
account of the Lenders in accordance with their DIP Percentages a commitment fee
at the rate per annum equal to one-half of one percent (0.50%) (computed on the
basis of a year of 360 days and the actual number of days elapsed) on the
average daily Unused DIP Commitments.  Such commitment fee shall be
payable monthly in arrears on the last day of each calendar
month in each year (commencing on the first such date occurring after the date
hereof) and on the Termination Date, unless the DIP Commitments are terminated
in whole on an earlier date, in which event the commitment fee for the period to
the date of such termination in whole shall be paid on the date of such
termination.

       

      (b)           Letter of Credit
Fees.  On the date of issuance, renewal or extension, or
increase in the amount, of any Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 1.2
hereof, the Borrower shall pay to the L/C Issuer for its own account a
fronting fee equal to 0.25% of the face amount of (or of the increase in the
face amount of) such Letter of Credit.  Monthly in arrears, on the
last day of each calendar month, commencing on the first such date occurring
after the date hereof, the Borrower shall pay to the DIP Agent, for the ratable
benefit of the Lenders in accordance with their DIP Percentages, a letter of
credit fee at a rate per annum equal to 3.00% (computed on the basis of a year
of 360 days and the actual number of days elapsed) in effect during each
day of such month applied to the daily average face amount of Letters of Credit
outstanding during such month.  In addition, the Borrower shall pay to
the L/C Issuer for its own account the L/C Issuer’s standard issuance,
drawing, negotiation, amendment, assignment, and other administrative fees for
each Letter of Credit as established by the L/C Issuer from time to
time.

       

      (c)           Closing Fee.  The
Borrower shall pay to the DIP Agent for the ratable account of the Lenders a
non-refundable closing fee in an amount equal to 2.5% (inclusive of any portion
of such closing fee paid in connection with the execution and delivery by the
Lenders of their commitment letters relating to the DIP Credit Facility) of the
aggregate amount of the DIP Commitments on the Closing Date.  Such fee
shall be payable in full no later than the Closing Date.

       

      (d)           DIP Agent
Fees.  The Borrower shall pay to the DIP Agent, for its own use
and benefit, a non-refundable fee in the amount of $125,000 payable in full upon
the entry of the Interim Financing Order.

       

      (e)           Audit Fees.  The
Borrower shall pay to the DIP Agent for its own use and benefit reasonable
out-of-pocket costs and expenses for audits of the Collateral performed by the
DIP Agent or its agents or representatives in such amounts as the DIP Agent may
from time to time request (the DIP Agent acknowledging and agreeing that such
charges shall be computed in the same manner as it at the time customarily uses
for the assessment of charges for similar collateral audits).

       

      Section
3.                                Place
and Application of Payments.

       

      Section
3.1                                Place and Application of
Payments.  All payments of principal of and interest on the
Loans and the Reimbursement Obligations, and of all other Post-Petition
Obligations payable by the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, shall be made by the Borrower to the DIP Agent by no later than
1:00 p.m. (Chicago time) on the due date thereof at the office of the DIP
Agent in Chicago, Illinois (or such other location as the DIP Agent may
designate in writing to the Borrower), for the benefit of the Lender(s) or
L/C Issuer entitled thereto.  Any payments received after such
time shall be deemed to have been received by the DIP Agent on the next Business
Day.  All such payments shall be made in U.S. Dollars, in immediately
available funds at the place of payment, in each case without set-off or
counterclaim.  The DIP Agent will promptly thereafter cause to be
distributed like funds relating to the payment of principal or interest on Loans
and on Reimbursement Obligations in which the Lenders have purchased
Participating Interests ratably to the Lenders and like funds relating to the
payment of any other amount payable to any Lender to such Lender, in each case
to be applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.  If the
DIP Agent causes amounts to be distributed to the Lenders in reliance upon the
assumption that the Borrower will make a scheduled payment and such scheduled
payment is not so made, each Lender shall, on demand, repay to the DIP Agent the
amount distributed to such Lender together with interest thereon in respect of
each day during the period commencing on the date such amount was distributed to
such Lender and ending on (but excluding) the date such Lender repays such
amount to the DIP Agent, at a rate per annum equal to:  (i) from
the date the distribution was made to the date two (2) Business Days after
payment by such Lender is due hereunder, the Federal Funds Rate for each such
day and (ii) from the date two (2) Business Days after the date such
payment is due from such Lender to the date such payment is made by such Lender,
the Base Rate in effect for each such day.

       

      On or
after the occurrence of the Termination Date, all payments and collections from
Collateral (including Dispositions) shall be applied: first, to pay the
Administrative Expense Carve-Out, second to the costs, fees and expenses of the
DIP Agent and the Lenders; third, to interest and fees and then to repay the
Loans and other Post-Petition Obligations outstanding under this Agreement;
fourth, to provide cash collateral for Letters of Credit outstanding under this
Agreement in an amount equal to 105% of the maximum amount available to be drawn
under all such Letters of Credit; fifth, to reduce the Pre-Petition BMO
Obligations under the Pre-Petition BMO Credit Agreement and the Pre-Petition
CoBank Obligations under the Pre-Petition CoBank Credit Agreement according to
the priorities of their respective Replacement Liens therein and otherwise on
the basis set forth in the Pre-Petition BMO Credit Agreement and the
Pre-Petition CoBank Credit Agreement; and then, to the Borrower (or relevant
Debtor) or as otherwise required by applicable law pursuant to an order of the
Bankruptcy Court.

       

      Section
3.2                                Account Debit.  The
Borrower hereby irrevocably authorizes the DIP Agent to charge any of the
Borrower’s deposit accounts maintained with the DIP Agent for the amounts from
time to time necessary to pay any then due Post-Petition Obligations; provided that the Borrower
acknowledges and agrees that the DIP Agent shall not be under an obligation to
do so and the DIP Agent shall not incur any liability to the Borrower or any
other Person for the DIP Agent’s failure to do so.

       

      Section
4.                                The
Collateral.

       

      Section
4.1                                Security.  As
collateral security for the prompt and complete payment and performance when due
(whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Post-Petition
Obligations and to induce the Lenders to make the DIP Credit available to the
Borrower in accordance with the terms hereof, the Borrower and each of the
Guarantors hereby assigns, creates, grants, conveys, mortgages, pledges,
hypothecates and transfers to the DIP Agent for the ratable benefit of the
Lenders, first priority Liens (subject to the Administrative Expense Carve-Out
and Permitted Liens permitted by, and with the priority established by, the
Interim Financing Order), in accordance with Sections 364(c) and (d) of the
Bankruptcy Code in all right, title and interest of the Borrower and each of the
Guarantors in and to (a) any and all Property, assets and things of value
of every kind or type, tangible, intangible, real, personal and fixed, whether
now owned or hereafter acquired and wherever located, including, without
limitation, real property (including without limitation all leasehold interests,
mineral leases, and mineral and water rights), the Cash Collateral Account and
all other deposit accounts, accounts, chattel paper (including electronic
chattel paper), instruments, documents (including electronic documents of
title), all of the Debtors’ rights and claims relating to all deposits and
reserves held by utilities and trade creditors,  inventory, farm
products, rights against contract growers, equipment, rolling stock (including
titled and non-titled vehicles), general intangibles (including, without
limitation, payment intangibles, intellectual property, interests in
partnerships and joint ventures (to the extent not prohibited, in which case the
DIP Agent for the benefit of the Lenders shall have a Lien on the proceeds of
such interests)), tax refunds, letter of credit rights, supporting obligations,
commercial tort claims, and investment property (other than any equity interests
of Avicola that is part of the Avicola Pre-Petition Collateral, but including in
the Collateral any proceeds of any sale or other Disposition of such equity
interests to which any Debtor may be entitled after the payment in full of the
Avicola Pre-Petition Obligations), all pursuant to Section 364(c) and (d)
of the Bankruptcy Code and, to the extent not otherwise included, (a) all
proceeds of each of the foregoing, (b) all accessions to, substitutions and
replacements (including any Property repaired, rebuilt or replaced with casualty
insurance proceeds and condemnation awards) for, and insurance and condemnation
proceeds, rents, profits and products of each of the foregoing, (c) the
Pre-Petition BMO Collateral and the Pre-Petition CoBank Collateral, and
(d) all Property of the Borrower and each of the Guarantors held by the DIP
Agent or any Lender, including without limitation, the funds from time to time
on deposit in the Collection Accounts referred to in Section 4.3 hereof,
any funds held in escrow by the DIP Agent pursuant to the last sentence of
Section 1.8(b)(i) hereof and all other Property of every description, now
or hereafter in the possession or custody of or in transit to the DIP Agent or
any Lender for any purpose, including safekeeping, collection or pledge, for the
account of the Borrower or any Guarantor or as to which the Borrower or any
Guarantor may have any right or power (all of the foregoing, the “Collateral”), provided that
the Collateral shall not include any of (i) the stock of first-tier Foreign
Subsidiaries of the Borrower in excess of 65% of the total combined voting power
of such Foreign Subsidiaries, or any stock in any Subsidiary of any first-tier
Foreign Subsidiaries of the Borrower, (ii) Property of any Debtor with
respect to which the consent of a third party is required for the pledge
thereof, except to the extent permitted by the Uniform Commercial Code, or
(iii) the Avicola Pre-Petition Collateral.

       

      Section
4.2                                Perfection of Security
Interests.  (a) At the request of the DIP Agent or the
Required Lenders and at the Borrower’s expense, the Borrower and each of the
Guarantors shall (i) execute and deliver to the DIP Agent documentation
satisfactory to the DIP Agent or the Required Lenders evidencing the Liens
granted hereby, providing for the perfection of such Liens and evidencing that
the automatic stay provisions of Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code have
been modified to permit the execution, delivery and filing of such
documentation, and (ii) perform or take any and all steps at any time
necessary to perfect, maintain, protect and enforce the DIP Agent’s Lien on the
Collateral; provided, however, that no such documentation shall be required as a
condition to the validity, priority or perfection of any of the Liens created
pursuant to this Agreement which security interests and liens shall be deemed
valid and properly perfected upon approval by the Bankruptcy Court of the
Financing Order; provided further that no such documentation shall be filed in
any jurisdiction with a mortgage, stamp, intangibles or similar
tax.

       

      (b)           Until
all Post-Petition Obligations and Adequate Protection Obligations have been
satisfied and paid in full in cash by the Debtors and the DIP Commitments shall
have terminated, the DIP Agent’s security interest in the Collateral as security
for such obligations shall continue in full force and effect.

       

      (c)           Notwithstanding
the provisions of Section 4.2(a) hereof, or failure on the part of the
Borrower, any Guarantor, the DIP Agent or any Lender to perfect, maintain,
protect or enforce the DIP Agent’s Lien on the Collateral, the Financing Order
shall automatically, and without further action by any Person, perfect the DIP
Agent’s Lien against the Collateral.

       

      Section
4.3                                Receivables and Inventory
Collections.  The Borrower and the Guarantors agree to
continue, or if appropriate, forthwith make, such arrangements as shall be
necessary or appropriate to assure that all proceeds of the inventory and
accounts receivable of the Borrower and the Guarantors and any other Cash
Collateral generated after the Closing Date but prior to the Termination Date
not required for the payment of normal operating expenses of the Borrower and
the Guarantors consistent, in amount and type of expenditure, with the Budget
are deposited (in the same form as received) in an account maintained with the
DIP Agent or accounts under the control of the DIP Agent (including local petty
cash accounts and local payroll accounts approved by the DIP Agent (the “Petty Cash and Payroll
Accounts”)), which provide for collections therein to be transmitted,
upon the DIP Agent’s request, to an account maintained with or otherwise under
the exclusive dominion and control of the DIP Agent, all such accounts
maintained with or under the control of the DIP Agent to constitute special
restricted accounts (each a “Collection Account” and
collectively the “Collection
Accounts”).   The Borrower acknowledges on behalf of
itself and the Guarantors that the DIP Agent has (and is hereby granted to the
extent that it does not already have) a Lien for the ratable benefit of the
Lenders on each of the Collection Accounts and all funds contained therein to
secure the Post-Petition Obligations and Adequate Protection Obligations,
subject to the provisions of the Financing Order and the Bankruptcy
Code.  Cash held in the Collection Accounts shall constitute Cash
Collateral subject to the Financing Order (if in effect) and otherwise as the
Bankruptcy Court shall determine.  Any applicable stay shall be deemed
to be lifted to the extent necessary to permit the DIP Agent and the Lenders to
exercise their rights under this Section 4.3.

       

      Section
4.4                                Cash Collateral
Account.  (a) All Cash Collateral and other amounts
referred to in Section 1.8(b)(ii) shall be deposited by the Debtors in one
or more accounts subject to the DIP Agent’s first priority perfected Lien and,
if at any time required by the DIP Agent, under its exclusive dominion and
control (collectively, the “Cash Collateral
Account”).  Such funds shall be held in the Cash Collateral
Account until such time as the amounts held therein are applied by the relevant
Debtor to pay normal operating expenses consistent with the Budget and the
Interim Financing Order and any Final Financing Order or as the DIP Agent shall
otherwise require, except that the Net Proceeds of Dispositions shall be applied
as set forth in Section 1.8(b)(i) hereof.  So long as no Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing, amounts held in the Cash
Collateral Account shall be made available to the relevant Debtor to pay normal
operating expenses consistent, in amount and type of expenditure, with the
Budget.  During the existence of an Event of Default all amounts held
in the Cash Collateral Account shall be applied as required by the second
paragraph of Section 3.1.

       

      (b)           If
the prepayment of the amount available for drawing under any or all outstanding
Letters of Credit is required by this Agreement (including under
Sections 1.8(b), 1.2(b) or 9.2), the Borrower shall forthwith pay the
amount required to be so prepaid, to be held by the DIP Agent in a separate Cash
Collateral Account as security for, and for application by the DIP Agent (to the
extent available) to, the reimbursement of any payment under any Letter of
Credit then or thereafter made by the L/C Issuer until all Reimbursement
Obligations have been paid in full and no Letters of Credit remain outstanding,
and thereafter to be applied as provided in
Section 4.4(a).  Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, amounts held
in the Cash Collateral Account pursuant to this Section 4.4(b) shall be
made available to the relevant Debtor to pay normal operating expenses
consistent, in amount and type of expenditure, with the
Budget.  During the existence of a Default or Event of Default all
amounts held in such Cash Collateral Account shall be applied as required by the
second paragraph of Section 3.1.

       

      Section
4.5                                Rights of DIP
Agent.  The DIP Agent may, or upon the direction of the
Required Lenders, shall, in each case at any time on or after the Termination
Date, after three (3) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Borrower of its
intention to do so, notify Account Debtors, parties to contracts with the
Borrower or any Guarantor, obligors on instruments of the Borrower or any
Guarantor and obligors in respect of chattel paper of the Borrower or any
Guarantor that the right, title and interest of the Borrower and the Guarantors
in and under such accounts, such contracts, such instruments and such chattel
paper have been assigned to the DIP Agent and that payments shall be made
directly to the DIP Agent.  Upon the request of the DIP Agent or the
Required Lenders on or after the Termination Date, the Borrower and the
Guarantors will so notify such Account Debtors, such parties to contracts,
obligors on such instruments and obligors in respect of such chattel
paper.  Upon the occurrence and during the continuation of a Default
or an Event of Default, the DIP Agent may in its own name or in the name of
others communicate with such parties to such accounts, such contracts, such
instruments and such chattel paper to verify with such Persons to the DIP
Agent’s satisfaction the existence, amount and terms of any such accounts,
contracts, instruments or chattel paper.

       

      Section
4.6                                Performance by DIP Agent of Debtors’
Post-Petition Obligations.  If the Borrower or any Guarantor
fails to perform or comply with any of its agreements contained in this
Agreement, the other Loan Documents or the Financing Order and the DIP Agent, as
provided for by the terms of this Agreement, shall itself perform or comply, or
otherwise cause performance or compliance, with such agreement, the reasonable
expenses of the DIP Agent incurred in connection with such performance or
compliance, together with interest thereon at the rate per annum determined by
adding 10% to the Base Rate as from time to time in effect, shall be payable by
the Debtors to the DIP Agent on demand and shall constitute Post-Petition
Obligations secured by the Collateral.  Moreover, neither the DIP
Agent nor any Lender shall in any way be responsible for the payment of any
costs incurred in connection with preserving or disposing of Collateral pursuant
to Section 506(c) of the Bankruptcy Code, and the Collateral may not be
charged for the incurrence of any such cost.

       

      Section
4.7                                DIP Agent’s Appointment as
Attorney-in-Fact.  (a) The Borrower and each of the
Guarantors hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the DIP Agent and any
officer of DIP Agent, with full power of substitution, as its true and lawful
attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable power and authority in the place and
stead of the Borrower and each of the Guarantors and in the name of the Borrower
or such Guarantor or in the DIP Agent’s own name, from time to time in the DIP
Agent’s discretion, for the purpose of collecting the Post-Petition Obligations
when due in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, to take any and
all appropriate action and to execute and deliver any and all documents and
instruments which may be necessary and desirable to accomplish such purpose,
and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hereby gives the DIP
Agent the power and right, on behalf of the Borrower and the Guarantors, without
notice to or assent from them, to do the following:

       

      (i)           to
ask, demand, collect, receive and give acquittances and receipts for any and all
monies due and to become due under any Collateral and, in the name of the
Borrower or any Guarantor or the DIP Agent’s own name or otherwise, to take
possession of and endorse and collect any checks, drafts, notes, acceptances or
other instruments for the payment of monies due under any Collateral and to file
any claim or to take any other action or proceeding in any court of law or
equity or otherwise deemed appropriate by the DIP Agent for the purpose of
collecting any and all monies due under any Collateral whenever payable and to
file any claims or to take any other action or proceeding in any court of law or
equity or otherwise deemed appropriate by the DIP Agent for the purpose of
collecting any and all such monies due under any Collateral whenever
payable;

       

      (ii)           to
pay or discharge taxes, liens, security interests or other encumbrances levied
or placed on or threatened against the Collateral, to effect any repairs or
procure any insurance called for by the terms of this Agreement and to pay all
or any part of the premiums therefor and the costs thereof, in each case which
are not stayed pursuant to the Chapter 11 Cases or which are not being contested
in accordance with this Agreement; and

       

      (iii)           (A) to
direct any party liable for any payment under any of the Collateral to make
payment of any and all monies due, and to become due, and to become due
thereunder, directly to the DIP Agent or as the DIP Agent shall direct;
(B) to receive payment of and receipt for any and all monies, claims and
other amounts due and to become due at any time in respect of or arising out of
any Collateral; (C) to sign and endorse any invoices, freight or express
bills, bills of lading, storage or warehouse receipts, drafts against the
Borrower or any Guarantor, assignments, verifications and notices in connection
with accounts and other documents constituting or relating to the Collateral;
(D) to commence and prosecute any suits, actions or proceedings at law or
equity in any court of competent jurisdiction to collect the Collateral or any
part thereof and to enforce any other right in respect of any Collateral;
(E) to defend any suit, action or proceeding brought against the Borrower
or any Guarantor with respect to any Collateral; (F) to settle, compromise
or adjust any suit, action or proceeding described above and, in connection
therewith, to give such discharges or releases as the DIP Agent or the Required
Lenders may deem appropriate; (G) to license or, to the extent permitted by
an applicable license, sublicense, whether general, special or otherwise, and
whether on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis, any trademark, throughout the
world for such term or terms, on such conditions, and in such manner, as the DIP
Agent or the Required Lenders shall in its or their sole discretion determine is
appropriate to liquidate the Collateral; and (H) generally to sell,
transfer, pledge, make any agreement with respect to or otherwise deal with any
of the Collateral as fully and completely as though the DIP Agent were the
absolute owner thereof for all purposes, and to do, at the option of the DIP
Agent and at the Borrower’s expense, at any time, or from time to time, all acts
and things which the DIP Agent reasonably deems necessary to protect, preserve
or realize upon the Collateral and the DIP Agent’s lien therein, in order to
effect the intent of this Agreement, all as fully and effectively as the
Borrower and the Guarantors might do.

       

      (b)           The
DIP Agent agrees that it will forbear from exercising the power of attorney or
any rights granted to it pursuant to this Section until after the
Termination Date or upon the occurrence and during the continuation of a Default
or Event of Default.  The Borrower and the Guarantors hereby ratify,
to the extent permitted by law, all that said attorneys shall lawfully do or
cause to be done by virtue hereof.  The power of attorney granted
pursuant to this Section is a power coupled with an interest and shall be
irrevocable until the Post-Petition Obligations and the Adequate Protection
Obligations are paid in full in cash and the DIP Commitments have
terminated.

       

      (c)           The
powers conferred on the DIP Agent hereunder are solely to protect the DIP
Agent’s and the Lenders’ interests in the Collateral and shall not impose any
duty upon any of them to exercise any such powers.  The DIP Agent
shall be accountable only for amounts that it actually receives as a result of
the exercise of such powers and neither it nor any of its officers, directors,
employees or agents shall be responsible to the Borrower and the Guarantors for
any act or failure to act, except for its or their own gross negligence or
willful misconduct.

       

      (d)           The
Borrower and each Guarantor also authorize the DIP Agent, at any time and from
time to time on and after the Termination Date or upon the occurrence and during
the continuation of a Default or Event of Default, (i) to communicate, in
the name of the Borrower or such Guarantor or in the DIP Agent’s own name (at
the DIP Agent’s option), with any party to any contract with regard to the
assignment of the right, title and interest of the Borrower or such Guarantor in
and under the contracts hereunder and other matters relating thereto and
(ii) to execute any endorsements, assignments or other instruments or
conveyance or transfer with respect to the Collateral.

       

      Section
5.                                Definitions;
Interpretation.

       

      Section
5.1                                Definitions.  The
following terms when used herein shall have the following meanings:

       

      “Account Debtor” means any
Person obligated to make payment on any Receivable.

       

      “Act” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 12.24 hereof.

       

      “Administrative Questionnaire”
means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the DIP
Agent.

       

      “Adequate Protection
Obligations” means all present and future obligations of the Debtors
under any order or orders of the Bankruptcy Court to pay interest, fees, costs,
expenses and charges on or with respect to the Pre-Petition BMO Obligations and
the Pre-Petition CoBank Obligations under Sections 361 and 506(b) of the
Bankruptcy Code, to compensate the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders and the Pre-Petition
BMO Agent for the post-petition use for and to the extent of the post-petition
use of Pre-Petition BMO Collateral and proceeds thereof and for any
post-petition diminution in value of Pre-Petition BMO Collateral, to compensate
the Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders and the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent for the
post-petition use for and to the extent of the post-petition use of Pre-Petition
CoBank Collateral and proceeds thereof and for any post-petition diminution in
value of Pre-Petition CoBank Collateral and to provide the Replacement Liens as
contemplated by this Agreement and the Financing Orders.

       

      “Administrative Expense
Carve-Out” means (a) $5,000,000 for the payment of costs of winding
up the Chapter 11 Cases and professional fees and disbursements of the Debtors’
professionals and the professionals of any official committee appointed in the
Chapter 11 Cases incurred after the Termination Date (to the extent allowed by
the Bankruptcy Court) plus (b) professional fees and disbursements incurred
or accrued and pending applications for professional fees and disbursements of
the Debtors’ professionals and the professionals of any official committee
appointed in the Chapter 11 Cases (to the extent allowed at any time by the
Bankruptcy Court, whether or not included in the Budget) prior to the
Termination Date and U.S. Trustee fees pursuant to 28 U.S.C. Section 1930
(collectively, the “Carve-Out
Amount”), provided that no part of the Administrative Expense Carve-Out
shall be used to object to or contest any post-petition lien or Post-Petition
Obligations or to challenge (as opposed to investigate) any pre-petition lien of
the Pre-Petition BMO Agent or the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders or to otherwise seek
affirmative relief against the DIP Agent, the Lenders, the Pre-Petition BMO
Agent or the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders.

       

      “Affiliate” means any Person
directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by, or under direct or indirect
common control with, another Person.  A Person shall be deemed to
control another Person for purposes of this definition if such Person possesses,
directly or indirectly, the power to direct, or cause the direction of, the
management and policies of the other Person, whether through the ownership of
voting securities, common directors, trustees or officers, by contract or
otherwise; provided
that, (a) in any event for purposes of this definition, any Person
that owns, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of the voting power of the Voting
Stock of a corporation or 10% or more of the voting power of the partnership or
other ownership interest of any other Person (other than as a limited partner of
such other Person) will be deemed to control such corporation or other Person,
and (b) in no event shall the Pre-Petition BMO Agent, any Pre-Petition BMO
Lender, the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent or any Pre-Petition CoBank Lender be an
Affiliate solely as a result of any interest in any capital stock of the
Borrower it may have or acquire as a result of any action taken against Pilgrim
Interests, including without limitation any action to enforce the Pre-Petition
BMO Guaranty. 

       

      “Agreed Upon Values” means
(a) $1.50 per head for breeder hens and cockerels, (b) $1.00 per head
for breeder pullets, (c) $0.70 per head for commercial hens, (d) $1.25
per dozen hatching eggs; and (e) $0.40 per head for commercial pullets, provided
that such values shall be adjusted by the Required Lenders on a quarterly basis
to reflect market conditions.

       

      “Agreement” means this
Post-Petition Credit Agreement, as the same may be amended, modified, restated
or supplemented from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.

       

      “Application” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 1.2(b) hereof.

       

      “Approved Fund” means any
Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a
Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages
a Lender.

       

      “Assignment and Acceptance”
means an assignment and acceptance entered into by a Lender and an Eligible
Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by
Section 12.12 hereof), and accepted by the DIP Agent, in substantially the
form of Exhibit H or any other form approved by the DIP Agent.

       

      “Authorized Representative”
means those persons shown on the list of officers provided by the Borrower
pursuant to Section 7.2 hereof or on any update of any such list provided
by the Borrower to the DIP Agent, or any further or different officers of the
Borrower so named by any Authorized Representative of the Borrower in a written
notice to the DIP Agent.

       

      “Available Unrestricted Cash”
means cash in any form, including without limitation amounts on deposit in
deposit accounts, securities accounts, commodity accounts, that is collected
funds and is not subject to any escrow, security deposit or other arrangement
that is otherwise permitted by this Agreement.

       

      “Avicola” means Avicola
Pilgrim’s Pride de Mexico, S. de. R.L. de C.V.

       

      “Avicola Agent” means ING
Capital LLC as agent under the Avicola Pre-Petition Credit
Agreement.

       

      “Avicola Pre-Petition
Collateral” means all collateral security for the Avicola Pre-Petition
Obligations in existence as of the Petition Date or agreed to be granted
thereafter (but only to the extent such future collateral consists of Property
of Avicola and its Subsidiaries) and all proceeds thereof.

       

      “Avicola Pre-Petition
Obligations” means all the indebtedness, obligations and liabilities,
fixed or contingent, of the Borrower, Avicola and Avicola’s Subsidiaries to the
lenders or the Avicola Agent arising or in connection with the Avicola
Pre-Petition Credit Agreement or evidenced by the promissory notes issued by
Avicola thereunder.

       

      “Avicola Pre-Petition Credit
Agreement” means the Credit Agreement, dated as of September 25,
2006 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, or otherwise modified from
time to time), among Avicola, the Borrower and certain subsidiaries of Avicola,
as guarantors, the lenders from time to time party thereto and Avicola
Agent.

       

      “Bankruptcy Code” means The
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, as heretofore and hereafter amended, and codified
as 11 U.S.C. Section 101 et seq.

       

      “Bankruptcy Court” means the
United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, Fort Worth
Division, or any other court having jurisdiction over the Chapter 11 Cases
from time to time.

       

      “Base Rate” means for any day
the greatest of:  (i) the rate of interest announced or otherwise
established by the DIP Agent from time to time as its prime commercial rate, or
its equivalent, for U.S. Dollar loans to borrowers located in the United States
as in effect on such day, with any change in the Base Rate resulting from a
change in said prime commercial rate to be effective as of the date of the
relevant change in said prime commercial rate (it being acknowledged and agreed
that such rate may not be the DIP Agent’s best or lowest rate), and
(ii) the sum of (x) the rate determined by the DIP Agent to be the
average (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next higher 1/100 of 1%) of the
rates per annum quoted to the DIP Agent at approximately 10:00 a.m.
(Chicago time) (or as soon thereafter as is practicable) on such day (or, if
such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day) by
two or more Federal funds brokers selected by the DIP Agent for sale to the DIP
Agent at face value of Federal funds in the secondary market in an amount equal
or comparable to the principal amount for which such rate is being determined,
plus (y) 1/2 of 1%, and (iii) the LIBOR Quoted Rate for such day plus
1.00%.

       

      “Borrower” shall have the
meaning set forth in the preamble hereof.

       

      “Borrowing” means the total
of Loans of a single type advanced by the Lenders on a single
date.  Borrowings of Loans are made and maintained ratably from each
of the Lenders according to their DIP Percentages.  A Borrowing is
“advanced” on the day Lenders advance
funds comprising such Borrowing to the Borrower.  Borrowings of Swing
Loans are made by the Swing Line Lender in accordance with the procedures set
forth in Section 1.6 hereof.

       

      “Borrowing Base” means, as of
any time it is to be determined on the basis of the information contained in the
most recent Borrowing Base Certificate, the sum of:

       

      (a)80% of
the then outstanding unpaid amount of Eligible Receivables; plus

       

      (b)65% of
the value (computed at the lower of market or cost using the first-in/first-out
method of inventory valuation determined in accordance with GAAP, consistently
applied) of Eligible Inventory consisting of feed grains, feed and ingredients
located at the Borrower’s or a Guarantor’s feed mills or is prepaid in full and
is in transit from the seller thereof to the Borrower or Guarantor;
plus

       

      (c)65% of
the lower of cost or fair wholesale market value (computed on a
first-in/first-out method of inventory valuation in accordance with GAAP,
consistently applied) of Eligible Inventory consisting of dressed broiler
chickens and commercial eggs; plus

       

      (d)65% of
the Value of Eligible Inventory consisting of live broiler chickens;
plus

       

      (e)65% of
the standard cost value of Eligible Inventory consisting of prepared food
products; plus

       

      (f)100%
of the Agreed Upon Values of Eligible Inventory consisting of breeder hens,
breeder pullets, commercial hens, commercial pullets and hatching eggs;
plus

       

      (g)40% of
the actual costs of Eligible Inventory consisting of packaging materials,
vaccines, general supplies, and maintenance supplies; minus

       

      (h)the
aggregate principal amount of all loans, letters of credit (including the bond
letter of credit) and unreimbursed drawings under letters of credit outstanding
under the Pre-Petition BMO Credit Facilities; minus

       

      (i)the
outstanding amount of Secured Grower Payables that are more than 15 days past
due;  minus

       

      (j)a
good-faith estimate of the Carve-Out Amount acceptable to the Required Lenders;
minus

       

      (l)a good
faith estimate of all claims under 11 U.S.C. § 503(b)(9);

       

      provided that (i) the
Borrowing Base as determined on any date shall not exceed 222% of the amount
included therein under clause (a) above as of such date, (ii) the DIP Agent
shall have the right, and at the request of the Required Lenders shall, upon
five (5) Business
Days’ notice to the Borrower to reduce the advance rates against Eligible
Receivables and Eligible Inventory in its reasonable credit discretion based on
results from any field audit or appraisal of the Collateral, and (iii) the
Borrowing Base shall be computed only as against and on so much of such
Collateral as is included on the Borrowing Base Certificates furnished from time
to time by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement and, if required by the DIP
Agent pursuant to any of the terms hereof or any Collateral Document, as
verified by such other evidence reasonably required to be furnished to the DIP
Agent pursuant hereto or pursuant to any such Collateral Document.

       

      “Borrowing Base Certificate”
means the certificate in the form of Exhibit E hereto, or in such other
form acceptable to the DIP Agent, to be delivered to the DIP Agent and the
Lenders pursuant to Sections 7.2 and 8.5 hereof.

       

      “Budget” means the budget
projecting the Debtors’ budgeted cash receipts and disbursements (including
Costs of Reorganization) on a weekly basis for 13 weeks.  The initial
Budget is the budget attached to the Interim Financing Order, as such budget may
from time to time be updated or otherwise modified as provided in this
Agreement.  Any use of the phrases “consistent with”, “to the extent
provided for”, “included in”, “pursuant to”, “shown in”, “covered by”, “set
forth in”, “contemplated in” or any similar reference when used with respect to
the Budget shall mean and refer to the Budget and any permitted variances
thereto or therein.

       

      “Budget Report” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 8.5(m) hereof.

       

      “Business Day” means any day
(other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are not authorized or required
to close in Chicago, Illinois.

       

      “Capital Expenditures” means,
for any period as applied to the Restricted Group, the aggregate of, without
duplication, all expenditures of the Restricted Group during such period that,
in conformity with GAAP, are or should be included in “purchase of property and
equipment” or similar items reflected in the statement of cash flows of the
Restricted Group; provided that the term
“Capital Expenditures” shall not include such expenditures which constitute (a)
purchases using casualty or condemnation proceeds not included in Net Proceeds
for events arising after the Petition Date, (b) purchases using Net Proceeds
reinvested by the Debtors as permitted by this Agreement in assets useful to
their businesses, (c) interest attributable to such expenditures that is
capitalized during such period, and (d) expenditures that are accounted for as
capital expenditures of the Restricted Group and that actually are paid for by a
third party and for which none of the members of the Restricted Group has
provided or is required to provide or incur, directly or indirectly, any
consideration or obligation to such third party or any other Person (whether
before, during or after such period).

       

      “Capital Lease” means any
lease of Property which in accordance with GAAP is required to be capitalized on
the balance sheet of the lessee.

       

      “Capitalized Lease
Obligation” means, for any Person, the amount of the liability shown on
the balance sheet of such Person in respect of a Capital Lease determined in
accordance with GAAP.

       

      “Carve-Out Amount” shall have
the meaning set forth in the definition of the term “Administrative Expense
Carve-Out.”

       

      “Cash Collateral” means the
cash collateral (within the meaning of Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code)
subject to the Liens securing the Post-Petition Obligations or any portion
thereof.

       

      “Cash Collateral Account”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 4.4 hereof.

       

      “CERCLA” means the
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as
amended by the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986, 42 U.S.C.
§§ 9601 et seq., and any future amendments.

       

      “Change of Control” means any
of (a) the acquisition by any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used
in sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended) at any time of beneficial ownership of more than 25% of the voting
power of the Voting Stock or other equity interests of the Borrower on a
fully-diluted basis, other than acquisitions of such interests by
(x) Lonnie A. “Bo” Pilgrim, his spouse, his issue, his estate and any
trust, partnership or other entity primarily for the benefit of him, his spouse
and/or issue, including any direct or indirect trustee, managing partner or such
other Person serving a similar function or Pilgrim Interests, (y)  the
Pre-Petition BMO Lenders, the Pre-Petition BMO Agent, the Pre-Petition CoBank
Lenders and the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent, (b) the failure of individuals
who are members of the board of directors (or similar governing body) of the
Borrower on the Closing Date (together with any new or replacement directors
whose initial nomination for election was approved by a majority of the
directors who were either directors on the Closing Date or previously so
approved) to constitute a majority of the board of directors (or similar
governing body) of the Borrower, or (c) any “Change of Control” (or words
of like import), as defined in any agreement or indenture relating to any issue
of Indebtedness for Borrowed Money in an outstanding principal amount in excess
of $1,000,000 of the Borrower or any Subsidiary that is incurred after the
Petition Date shall occur.

       

      “Chapter 11 Case” shall
have the meaning set forth in the preamble hereof.

       

      “Closing Date” means the date
of this Agreement or such later Business Day upon which each condition described
in Section 7.2 shall be satisfied or waived in a manner acceptable to the
DIP Agent in its discretion, but in any event no later than December 10,
2008, or any later date that may be agreed to by the Required
Lenders.

       

      “Code” means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any successor statute
thereto.

       

      “Collateral” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 4.1 hereof.

       

      “Collection Account” shall
have the meaning set forth in Section 4.3 hereof.

       

      “Collateral Documents” means
any and all mortgages, deeds of trust, security agreements, pledge agreements,
assignments, financing statements and other documents as shall from time to time
secure or relate to the Post-Petition Obligations or any part
thereof.

       

      “Controlled Group” means all
members of a controlled group of corporations and all trades or businesses
(whether or not incorporated) under common control which, together with the
Borrower, are treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the
Code.

       

      “Costs of Reorganization”
shall mean all legal, professional and advisory fees paid by the Debtors
(whether or not incurred by the Debtors) in connection with the Chapter 11 Cases
as set forth in the Budget and approved in the Financing Order or as may be
otherwise approved from time to time by the Bankruptcy Court, subject to the
Lenders’ and the DIP Agent’s right to object thereto.

       

      “Credit Event” means the
advancing of any Loan, or the issuance of, or extension (other than an automatic
extension) of the expiration date or increase in the amount of, any Letter of
Credit.

       

      “Debtor” shall have the
meaning set forth in the preamble hereof.

       

      “Default” means any event or
condition the occurrence of which would, with the passage of time or the giving
of notice, or both, constitute an Event of Default.

       

      “Default Rate” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 1.9 hereof.

       

      “Designated Disbursement
Account” means the account of the Borrower maintained with the DIP Agent
or its Affiliate and designated in writing to the DIP Agent as the Borrower’s
Designated Disbursement Account (or such other account as the Borrower and the
DIP Agent may otherwise agree).

       

      “Designated Officer” means
the Borrower’s directors, chief executive officer, president, chief financial
officer, chief restructuring officer and all officers responsible for
supervising compliance with the United States securities laws.

       

      “DIP Agent” means Bank of
Montreal, in is capacity as DIP Agent hereunder, and any successor in such
capacity pursuant to Section 11.7 hereof.

       

      “DIP Approval” means approval
by the Required Lenders or, in urgent circumstances in which there is
insufficient time for the DIP Agent to consult the Lenders, the DIP
Agent.  The DIP Agent shall thereafter promptly notify the Lenders of
any approvals given by it.

       

      “DIP Commitment” means, as to
any Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make DIP Loans and to participate
in Swing Loans and Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Borrower
hereunder in an aggregate principal or face amount at any one time outstanding
not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on
Schedule 1 attached hereto and made a part hereof, as the same may be
reduced or modified at any time or from time to time pursuant to the terms
hereof.  The Borrower and the Lenders acknowledge and agree that the
DIP Commitments of the Lenders aggregate $450,000,000 on the date
hereof.

       

      “DIP Credit Facility” or “DIP Credit” or “Facility” means the
debtor-in-possession facility extended to the Borrower by the Lenders
hereunder.

       

      “DIP Loan” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 1.1 hereof.

       

       “DIP Percentage” means,
for each Lender, the percentage of the DIP Commitments represented by such
Lender’s DIP Commitment or, if the DIP Commitments have been terminated, the
percentage held by such Lender (including through participation interests in
Reimbursement Obligations) of the aggregate principal amount of all DIP Loans
and L/C Obligations then outstanding.

       

      “Disposition” means the sale,
lease, conveyance or other disposition of Property, other than sales or other
dispositions expressly permitted under Sections 8.10(a), (b), (e), (f), (g)
or (h) hereof.

       

      “Domestic Subsidiary” means a
Subsidiary that is not a Foreign Subsidiary.

       

      “Eligible Assignee” means
(a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, (c) an Approved Fund,
and (d) any other Person (other than a natural person) approved by
(i) the DIP Agent, and (ii) in the case of any assignment of a DIP
Commitment, the L/C Issuer (each such approval not to be unreasonably
withheld or delayed); provided that notwithstanding
the foregoing, “Eligible Assignee” shall not include the Borrower or any
Guarantor or any of the Borrower’s or such Guarantor’s Affiliates or
Subsidiaries.

       

      “Eligible Inventory” means
any inventory of the Borrower or any Guarantor which:

       

      (a)consists
solely of feed grains, feed, ingredients, live and dressed broiler chickens,
commercial eggs, breeder hens, breeder pullets, hatching eggs, commercial hens,
commercial pullets, prepared food products, packaging materials, vaccines,
general supplies, and maintenance supplies, but excluding in any event feed
ingredients that are subject to any Liens granted to the sellers of such feed
ingredients to secure the unpaid purchase price thereof;

       

      (b)is an
asset of such Person to which it has good and marketable title, is freely
assignable, and is subject to a perfected, first priority lien in favor of the
DIP Agent free and clear of any other liens (other than Permitted Liens or Liens
arising by operation of law in each case which are subordinate to the Liens in
favor of the DIP Agent);

       

      (c)is
located in the United States of America at a permitted collateral location as
set forth in the security agreement and, in the case of any location not owned
by such Person, if requested by the DIP Agent, which is at all times subject to
a lien waiver agreement from such landlord or other third party to the extent
required by, and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to, the DIP
Agent;

       

      (d)is not
so identified to a contract to sell that it constitutes a
Receivable;

       

      (e)is not
obsolete, and is readily usable or salable by the Borrower or Guarantor in the
ordinary course of business;

       

      (f)is not
covered by a warehouse receipt or similar document unless, if requested by the
DIP Agent, such warehouse receipt or similar document has been delivered to the
DIP Agent or an agent or bailee of the DIP Agent;

       

      (g)is not
proprietary inventory of any customer of the Borrower or a Guarantor;
and

       

      (h)is
deemed by the Required Lenders in their sole judgment to be acceptable for
inclusion in the Borrowing Base.

       

      “Eligible Receivables” means
any Receivable of the Borrower or any Guarantor which:

       

      (a)arises
out of the sale of finished goods inventory delivered to and accepted by, or out
of the rendition of services fully performed and accepted by, the Account Debtor
on such Receivable, such Receivable does not represent a pre-billed Receivable
or a progress billing, and such Receivable is net of any deposits made by or for
the account of the relevant Account Debtor;

       

      (b)is
payable in U.S. Dollars and the Account Debtor on such Receivable is located
within the United States of America or, if such right has arisen out of the sale
of such goods shipped to, or out of the rendition of services to, an Account
Debtor located in any other country, such right is either (i) secured by a
valid and irrevocable transferable letter of credit issued by a lender
reasonably acceptable to the DIP Agent for the full amount thereof or
(ii) secured by an insurance policy on terms, and issued by EXIM Bank or
another insurer, satisfactory to the DIP Agent (which in any event shall insure
not less than ninety percent (90%) of the face amount of such Receivable and
shall be subject to such deductions as are acceptable to the DIP Agent), and in
each case which has been assigned or transferred to the DIP Agent in a manner
acceptable to the DIP Agent;

       

      (c)is the
valid, binding and legally enforceable obligation of the Account Debtor
obligated thereon and such Account Debtor is not (i) a Subsidiary or an
affiliate of the Borrower, (ii) a shareholder, director, officer or
employee of the Borrower or any Guarantor, (iii) the United States of
America, or any state or political subdivision thereof, or any department,
agency or instrumentality of any of the foregoing, unless the Assignment of
Claims Act or any similar state or local statute, as the case may be, is
complied with to the satisfaction of the DIP Agent, (iv) a debtor under any
proceeding under the United States Bankruptcy Code, as amended, or any other
comparable bankruptcy or insolvency law, or (v) an assignor for the benefit
of creditors;

       

      (d)is not
evidenced by an instrument or chattel paper unless the same has been endorsed
and delivered to the DIP Agent;

       

      (e)is an
asset of such Person to which it has good and marketable title, is freely
assignable, and is subject to a perfected, first priority Lien in favor of the
DIP Agent free and clear of any other Liens (other than Permitted Liens or Liens
arising by operation of law in each case that are subordinate to the Liens in
favor of the DIP Agent);

       

      (f)is not
subject to any offset, counterclaim or other defense with respect thereto (but
solely to the extent of such offset, counterclaim or other
defense);

       

      (g)no
surety bond was required or given in connection with said Receivable or the
contract or purchase order out of which the same arose;

       

      (h)it is
evidenced by an invoice to the Account Debtor dated not more than
5 Business Days subsequent to the shipment date of the relevant inventory
or completion of performance of the relevant services and is issued on ordinary
trade terms;

       

      (i)is not
unpaid more than 45 days after the original invoice date;

       

      (j)is not
owed by an Account Debtor who is obligated on Receivables more than 10% of the
aggregate unpaid balance of which have been past due for longer than the
relevant period specified in subsection (i) above unless the DIP Agent has
approved the continued eligibility thereof;

       

      (k)would
not cause the total Receivables owing from any one Account Debtor and its
Affiliates to exceed 15% of all Eligible Receivables;

       

      (l)does
not arise from a sale on a bill-and-hold, guaranteed sale, sale-or-return,
sale-on-approval, consignment or any other repurchase or return basis;
and

       

      (m)is
deemed by the Required Lenders in their sole judgment to be acceptable for
inclusion in the Borrowing Base.

       

      “Environmental Claim” means
any investigation, notice, violation, demand, allegation, action, suit,
injunction, judgment, order, consent decree, penalty, fine, lien,
pro­ceeding or claim (whether administrative, judicial or private in nature)
arising (a) pursuant to, or in connection with an actual or alleged
violation of, any Environmental Law, (b) in connection with any Hazardous
Material, (c) from any abatement, removal, remedial, cor­rective or
response action in connection with a Hazardous Material, Environmental Law or
order of a governmental authority or (d) from any actual or alleged damage,
injury, threat or harm to health and safety of humans, natural resources or the
environment.

       

      “Environmental Law” means any
applicable current or future Legal Requirement pertaining to (a) the
protection of health and safety of humans and the indoor or outdoor environment,
(b) the conservation, management or use of natural resources and wildlife,
(c) the protection or use of surface water or groundwater, (d) the
management, manufacture, possession, presence, use, generation, transportation,
treatment, storage, disposal, Release, threatened Release, abatement, removal,
remediation or handling of, or exposure to, any Hazardous Material or
(e) pollution (including any Release to air, land, surface water or
groundwater), and any amendment, rule, regulation, order or directive issued
thereunder.

       

      “ERISA” means the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or any successor statute
thereto.

       

      “Essential Creditor” means
(a) essential trade creditors who agree to provide goods and services to
the Debtors on terms consistent with a Normalized Trade Creditor, and
(b) the holders of tax claims and employee-related claims to the extent
provided for in the Budget or, if not provided for in the Budget, subject to DIP
Approval.

       

      “Essential Trade Creditor”
means any Essential Creditor who is a trade creditor.

       

      “Eurodollar Reserve
Percentage” means, for any Borrowing of Loans, the daily average for the
applicable interest period of the maximum rate, expressed as a decimal, at which
reserves (including, without limitation, any supplemental, marginal, and
emergency reserves) are imposed during such Interest Period by the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System (or any successor) on “eurocurrency
liabilities,” as
defined in such Board’s Regulation D (or in respect of any other category
of liabilities that includes deposits by reference to which the interest rate on
the Loans is determined or any category of extensions of credit or other assets
that include loans by non-United States offices of any Lender to United States
residents), subject to any amendments of such reserve requirement by such Board
or its successor, taking into account any transitional adjustments
thereto.  For purposes of this definition, the Loans shall be deemed to
be “eurocurrency liabilities” as defined in Regulation D without benefit or
credit for any prorations, exemptions or offsets under
Regulation D.

       

      “Event of Default” means any
event or condition identified as such in Section 9.1 hereof.

       

      “Event of Loss” means, with
respect to any Property, any of the following:  (a) any loss,
destruction or damage of such Property or (b) any condemnation, seizure, or
taking, by exercise of the power of eminent domain or otherwise, of such
Property, or confiscation of such Property or the requisition of the use of such
Property.

       

      “Excess Interest” is defined
in Section 12.20 hereof.

       

      “Fairway Receivables Securitization
Program” means the accounts receivable securitization program provided to
the Borrower under the Receivables Purchase Agreement.

       

      “Federal Funds Rate” means
the fluctuating interest rate per annum described in part (x) of
clause (ii) of the definition of Base Rate.

       

      “Final Financing Order” shall
mean a final order of the Bankruptcy Court authorizing and approving the DIP
Credit Facility, in substantially the form of the Interim Financing Order and
otherwise acceptable to the DIP Agent and the Required Lenders as to form and
substance.

       

      “Financing Order” shall mean
the Interim Financing Order prior to entry of the Final Financing Order and
shall mean the Final Financing Order at all times thereafter.

       

      “Foreign Subsidiary” means
each Subsidiary which (a) is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction
other than the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of
Columbia, (b) conducts substantially all of its business outside of the
United States of America, and (c) has substantially all of its assets
outside of the United States of America.  For this purpose the term
“United States of
America” shall exclude the Territories and Possessions of the United
States.  For the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall Puerto Rico be
considered part of the “United
States of America”. 

       

      “Fund” means any Person
(other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making,
purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar
extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business.

       

      “GAAP” means generally
accepted accounting principles set forth from time to time in the opinions and
pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial
Accounting Standards Board (or agencies with similar functions of comparable
stature and authority within the U.S. accounting profession), which are
applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination.

       

      “Gold Kist Insurance” means
GK Insurance Company.

       

      “Guarantor” and “Guarantors” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 1.12 hereof.

       

      “Guaranty” and “Guaranties” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 1.12 hereof.

       

      “Hazardous Material” means
any substance, chemical, compound, product, solid, gas, liquid, waste,
byproduct, pollutant, contaminant or material which is hazardous or toxic, and
includes, without limitation, (a) asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls and
petroleum (including crude oil or any fraction thereof) and (b) any
material classified or regulated as “hazardous” or “toxic” or words of like
import pursuant to an Environmental Law.

       

      “Hazardous Material Activity”
means any activity, event or occurrence involving a Hazardous Material,
including, without limitation, the manufacture, possession, presence, use,
generation, transportation, treatment, storage, disposal, Release, threatened
Release, abatement, removal, remediation, handling of or corrective or response
action to any Hazardous Material.

       

      “Incur” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 8.23 hereof.

       

      “Indebtedness for Borrowed
Money” means for any Person (without duplication) (a) all
indebtedness created, assumed or incurred in any manner by such Person
representing money borrowed (including by the issuance of debt securities),
(b) all indebtedness for the deferred purchase price of property or
services (other than trade accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of
business), (c) all indebtedness secured by any Lien upon Property of such
Person, whether or not such Person has assumed or become liable for the payment
of such indebtedness, (d) all Capitalized Lease Obligations of such Person,
and (e) all obligations of such Person on or with respect to letters of
credit and bankers’ acceptances whether or not representing obligations for
borrowed money.

       

      “Information” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 12.29 hereof.

       

      “Insurance Subsidiaries”
means Gold Kist Insurance and Mayflower.

       

      “Intercompany Bonds” means
(a) industrial revenue bonds and similar financing arrangements in an aggregate
principal amount of approximately $57,500,000 assigned to the Borrower in
connection with and as part of the acquisition by the Borrower of the stock of
certain Subsidiaries of ConAgra Foods, Inc., a Delaware corporation, and (b) any
industrial revenue bonds, notes, debentures or similar instruments issued by a
governmental entity on behalf of the Borrower or a Subsidiary and concurrently
with or following its issuance purchased by the Borrower or a
Subsidiary.

       

      “Interim Financing Order”
shall mean an order entered by the Bankruptcy Court on an interim basis after
notice given in a hearing conducted in accordance with Bankruptcy
Rule 4001(c) and in substantially the form attached hereto as
Exhibit C.

       

      “Interim Financing Order
Amount” means the amount of the DIP Commitments approved by the
Bankruptcy Court in the Interim Financing Order that will be available to the
Borrower during the period from the Closing Date through the date the Final
Financing Order is entered.

       

      “Joint Venture” means any
corporation, partnership or other entity or arrangement in which the Borrower or
any Subsidiary owns or controls any, but not more than 70%, of the Voting
Stock.

       

      “L/C Issuer” means Bank
of Montreal, in its capacity as the issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, and
its successors in such capacity as provided in Section 1.2(h)
hereof.

       

      “L/C Obligations” means the
aggregate undrawn face amounts of all outstanding Letters of Credit and all
unpaid Reimbursement Obligations.

       

      “L/C Sublimit” means
$20,000,000, as reduced pursuant to the terms hereof.

       

      “Legal Requirement” means any
applicable treaty, convention, statute, law, regulation, ordinance, license,
permit, governmental approval, injunction, judgment, order, consent decree or
other requirement of any governmental authority, whether federal, state, or
local.

       

      “Lenders” means and includes
Bank of Montreal and the other financial institutions from time to time party to
this Agreement, including each assignee Lender pursuant to Section 12.12
hereof and, unless the context otherwise requires, the Swing Line
Lender.

       

      “Letter of Credit” shall have
the meaning set forth in Section 1.2(a) hereof.

       

      “LIBOR01 Page” means the
display designated as “Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page” (or such other page as may
replace the LIBOR01 Page on that service or such other service as may be
nominated by the British Bankers’ Association as the information vendor for the
purpose of displaying British Bankers’ Association Interest Settlement Rates for
U.S. Dollar deposits).

       

      “LIBOR Quoted Rate” means,
for any date, the rate per annum determined by a fraction, the numerator of
which is the rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next higher
one hundred-thousandth of a percentage point) for deposits in U.S. Dollars for
an interest period equal to one month, which appears on the LIBOR01 Page as of
11:00 a.m. (London, England time) on such date and the denominator of which
is 1 minus the Eurodollar Reserve Percentage.

       

      “Lien” means any mortgage,
lien, security interest, pledge, charge or encumbrance of any kind in respect of
any Property, including the interests of a vendor or lessor under any
conditional sale, Capital Lease or other title retention
arrangement.

       

      “Lien Finding” means an order
of the Bankruptcy Court in form and substance satisfactory to the DIP Agent
finding that the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders are fully secured by the Pre-Petition
BMO Collateral by means of a valid, first priority (subject to Liens permitted
under the Pre-Petition BMO Credit Agreement), senior, fully perfected and
non-avoidable security interest and lien on the Pre-Petition BMO Primary
Collateral.

       

      “Loan” means any DIP Loan or
Swing Loan.

       

      “Loan Documents” means this
Agreement, the Notes (if any), the Applications, the Collateral Documents, the
Guaranties, and each other instrument or document to be delivered hereunder or
thereunder or otherwise in connection therewith.

       

      “Material Adverse Effect”
means (a) a material adverse change in the condition or prospects (financial or
otherwise), of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole after the
Petition Date, (b) a material impairment of the ability of the Borrower or
of the Debtors, taken as a whole, to perform their respective obligations under
any Loan Document or (c) a material adverse effect upon (i) the
legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against the Borrower or of
the Debtors, taken as a whole, of any Loan Document or the rights and remedies
of the DIP Agent and the Lenders thereunder or (ii) the perfection or
priority of any Lien granted under this Agreement or any Financing
Order.

       

      “Material Non-debtor Subsidiaries”
means, as of any date, any one or more Non-debtor Subsidiaries of the
Borrower having assets that in the aggregate constitute  more than 5%
of the total assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at such time, but in
any event shall include the Insurance Subsidiaries and Avicola and its
Subsidiaries.

       

      “Material Plan” shall have
the meaning set forth in Section 9.1(i) hereof.

       

      “Maturity Date” means
December 1, 2009, provided that the Maturity Date may be extended for an
additional 6 months at the request of the Borrower received no later than 45
days prior to the Maturity Date with the prior written consent of all of the
Lenders.  In the event any Lender does not respond in writing prior to
the Maturity Date to any request for an extension of the Maturity Date such
Lender shall be deemed to have refused to agree to the requested
extension.

       

      “Maximum Rate” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 12.20 hereof.

       

      “Mayflower” means Mayflower
Insurance Company, Ltd.

       

      “Minority Lenders” shall have
the meaning set forth in Section 1.13 hereof.

       

      “Net Proceeds” shall mean the
gross sale price less actual taxes payable and the reasonable out-of-pocket
costs of such sale (including without limitation broker’s fees and closing
costs) and the amount of all obligations secured by Permitted Liens that are
senior to the DIP Agent’s Liens in the Collateral and the Replacement Liens,
provided that Net Proceeds shall not include any casualty or condemnation
proceeds to the extent the Borrower or the relevant Guarantor has elected to use
such proceeds to repair, rebuild, or replace the assets subject to such casualty
or condemnation, no Event of Default exists and is continuing and, solely to the
extent of proceeds in excess of $10,000,000 or such higher amount as the
Required Lenders may approve with respect to any single casualty or condemnation
event, the Required Lenders have approved such repair, rebuilding or
replacement.  Any Property so repaired, rebuilt or replaced shall
constitute part of the Collateral and shall be subject to the Replacement
Liens.

       

      “Non-debtor Subsidiary” means
a Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a debtor or debtor-in-possession in a
proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code.

       

      “Normalized Trade Creditor”
shall mean an Essential Trade Creditor that has agreed with the relevant Debtor
to continue to extend credit and supply goods and/or services to the relevant
Debtor on terms consistent with those in effect on September 15, 2008, or
subject to DIP Approval and consistent with the assumptions used in the
projections of the Borrower that support feasibility of the
Borrower.

       

      “Note” and “Notes” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 1.10 hereof.

       

      “Participating Interest”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1.2(e) hereof.

       

      “Participating Lender” shall
have the meaning set forth in Section 1.2(e) hereof.

       

      “PBGC” means the Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any Person succeeding to any or all of its
functions under ERISA.

       

      “Permitted Liens” shall mean
Liens permitted by Section 8.8 hereof.

       

      “Person” means an individual,
partnership, corporation, limited liability company, association, trust,
unincorporated organization or any other entity or organization, including a
government or agency or political subdivision thereof.

       

      “Petty Cash and Payroll
Accounts” is defined in Section 4.3 hereof.

       

      “Petition Date” shall have
the meaning set forth in the Preliminary Statement hereto.

       

      “Pilgrim Interests” means
Pilgrim Interests, Ltd., a Texas limited partnership.

       

      “Plan” means any employee
pension benefit plan covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the minimum
funding standards under Section 412 of the Code that either (a) is
maintained by a member of the Controlled Group for employees of a member of the
Controlled Group or (b) is maintained pursuant to a collective bargaining
agreement or any other arrangement under which more than one employer makes
contributions and to which a member of the Controlled Group is then making or
accruing an obligation to make contributions or has within the preceding five
plan years made contributions.

       

      “Post-Petition Obligations”
shall mean any and all present and future indebtedness, obligations and
liabilities, fixed or contingent, of the Borrower and the Guarantors to the
Lenders or the DIP Agent arising on and after the date hereof under or in
connection with this Agreement, the Financing Orders or the other Loan Documents
or evidenced by the Notes or in connection with the Letters of Credit, including
without limitation the payment of the principal of and interest on the Loans and
the Reimbursement Obligations.

       

      “Premises” means the real
property owned or leased by the Borrower or any Subsidiary.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Agent”
shall mean Bank of Montreal, Chicago Branch, in its capacity as administrative
agent under the Pre-Petition BMO Credit Agreement.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO
Applications” means the various letter of credit applications and
reimbursement agreements executed and delivered by the Borrower to various
Pre-Petition BMO Lenders acting as issuers of letters of credit under the
Pre-Petition BMO Credit Agreement, as the same may be supplemented, amended,
restated or otherwise modified from time to time and any agreement entered into
in substitution therefor or replacement thereof.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Collateral”
means all collateral security for the Pre-Petition BMO Obligations which was in
existence as of the Petition Date and all proceeds thereof.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Credit
Agreement” shall mean that certain Fourth Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement dated as of February 8, 2007, by and between the Borrower, the
Pre-Petition Foreign Borrowers, the several lenders and letter of credit issuers
from time to time parties thereto, and Bank of Montreal, Chicago Branch, as
administrative agent, as the same has from time to time been modified or
amended.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Credit
Facilities” means the credit facilities provided under the Pre-Petition
BMO Credit Agreement.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Guaranty”
means the Second Amended and Restated Guaranty Agreement dated as of
February 8, 2007, from Pilgrim Interests to the Pre-Petition BMO Agent and
the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders, as the same may be supplemented, amended, restated
or otherwise modified from time to time and any agreement entered into in
substitution therefor or replacement thereof.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Lenders”
means the several lenders and letter of credit issuers from time to time parties
to the Pre-Petition BMO Credit Agreement.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Loan
Documents” shall mean the Pre-Petition BMO Credit Agreement, the
Pre-Petition BMO Security Documents, the Pre-Petition BMO Guaranty, the
Pre-Petition BMO Reimbursement Agreement, the Pre-Petition BMO Applications, and
any other security agreement, pledge agreement, deed of trust, mortgage,
collateral assignment, financing statement or other instrument or agreement
executed and delivered in connection therewith.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Loans”
shall mean the loans provided for by the Pre-Petition BMO Credit
Agreement.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO
Obligations” shall mean all the indebtedness, obligations and
liabilities, fixed or contingent, of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to the
Pre-Petition BMO Lenders or the Pre-Petition BMO Agent arising under or in
connection with the Pre-Petition BMO Credit Agreement or evidenced by the
promissory notes issued by the Borrower thereunder or in connection with the
letters of credit issued by the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders thereunder, including
without limitation the payment of the principal of and interest on the
Pre-Petition BMO Loans made thereunder and the Pre-Petition BMO Reimbursement
Obligations and all amounts relating to interest rate protection agreements
relating to any of the foregoing.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Primary
Collateral” means all collateral security for the Pre-Petition BMO
Obligations provided under the Pre-Petition BMO Working Capital Security
Agreement which was in existence as of the Petition Date and all proceeds
thereof.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Reimbursement
Agreement” means the Reimbursement Agreement dated as of June 15,
1999, between the Borrower and Harris N.A., successor by merger to Harris Trust
and Savings Bank, as the same may be supplemented, amended, restated or
otherwise modified from time to time and any agreement entered into in
substitution therefor or replacement thereof.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Reimbursement
Obligations” shall mean the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the
issuers of letters of credit under the Pre-Petition BMO Credit Agreement, the
Pre-Petition BMO Applications and the Pre-Petition BMO Reimbursement Agreement
for amounts drawn under such letters of credit.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Security
Documents” shall mean the Pre-Petition BMO Working Capital Security
Agreement, and all other security documents delivered to the Pre-Petition BMO
Agent granting a Lien on Property of any Person to secure the obligations and
liabilities of any Debtor or any Pre-Petition Foreign Borrower under the
Pre-Petition BMO Loan Documents.

       

      “Pre-Petition BMO Working Capital
Security Agreement” means the Third Amended and Restated Security
Agreement Re: Inventory and Farm Products dated as of October 13, 2008,
from the Borrower to the Pre-Petition BMO Agent, as the same may be
supplemented, amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time and any
agreement entered into in substitution therefor or replacement
thereof.

       

      “Pre-Petition CoBank Agent”
is defined in the definition of the term “Pre-Petition CoBank Credit
Agreement.”

       

      “Pre-Petition CoBank
Collateral” means all collateral security for the Pre-Petition CoBank
Obligations which was in existence as of the Petition Date and all proceeds
thereof.

       

      “Pre-Petition CoBank Credit
Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of
September 21, 2006, among the Borrower, CoBank, ACB, as administrative,
documentation and collateral agent for the benefit of the present and future
syndication parties (in its capacity as administrative agent, the “Pre-Petition CoBank Agent”),
lead arranger and book manager thereunder and as a syndication party, Farm
Credit Services of America, FLCA, as co-arranger and as a syndication party, and
the other syndication parties party thereto, as amended, supplemented, restated
and otherwise modified from time to time (as so amended, supplemented, restated
and otherwise modified from time to time).

       

      “Pre-Petition CoBank Credit
Facilities” means the credit facilities provided under the Pre-Petition
CoBank Credit Agreement.

       

      “Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders”
means the several lenders from time to time parties to the Pre-Petition CoBank
Credit Agreement.

       

      “Pre-Petition CoBank Loan
Documents” shall mean the Pre-Petition CoBank Credit Agreement, the
Pre-Petition CoBank Security Documents and any other security agreement, pledge
agreement, deed of trust, mortgage, collateral assignment, financing statement
or other instrument or agreement executed and delivered in connection
therewith.

       

      “Pre-Petition CoBank
Mortgages” shall mean any and all mortgages, deeds of trust, deeds to
secured debt and other instruments or documents granting or creating a Lien on
real property (or any interest therein) at any time delivered to the
Pre-Petition CoBank Agent or any Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders to provide
collateral security for any indebtedness, obligations and liabilities of the
Borrower under the Pre-Petition CoBank Loan Documents.

       

      “Pre-Petition CoBank
Obligations” shall mean all the indebtedness, obligations and
liabilities, fixed or contingent, of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to the
Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders or the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent arising under or in
connection with the Pre-Petition CoBank Credit Agreement or evidenced by the
promissory notes issued by the Borrower thereunder, including without limitation
the payment of the principal of and interest on the loans and other extensions
of credit made thereunder and all amounts relating to interest rate protection
agreements relating to any of the foregoing.

       

      “Pre-Petition CoBank Primary
Collateral” means all collateral security for the Pre-Petition CoBank
Obligations provided under the Pre-Petition CoBank Mortgages and the
Pre-Petition CoBank Security Agreement which was in existence as of the Petition
Date and all proceeds thereof.

       

      “Pre-Petition CoBank Security
Agreement” shall mean the Amended and Restated Security and Pledge
Agreement dated as of September 21, 2006, from the Borrower to the
Pre-Petition CoBank Agent, as the same may be supplemented, amended, restated or
otherwise modified from time to time and any agreement entered into in
substitution therefor or replacement thereof.

       

      “Pre-Petition CoBank Security
Documents” shall mean the Pre-Petition CoBank Security Agreement, the
Pre-Petition CoBank Mortgages and all other security documents delivered to the
Pre-Petition CoBank Agent granting a Lien on Property of any Person to secure
the obligations and liabilities of any Debtor under the Pre-Petition CoBank Loan
Documents.

       

      “Pre-Petition Foreign
Borrower” means each of To-Ricos, Ltd., a Bermuda company, and To-Ricos
Distribution, Ltd., a Bermuda company.

       

      “Property” means, as to any
Person, all types of real, personal, tangible, intangible or mixed property
owned by such Person whether or not included in the most recent balance sheet of
such Person and its subsidiaries under GAAP.

       

      “RCRA” means the Solid Waste
Disposal Act, as amended by the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976
and Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments of 1984, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 et
seq., and any future amendments.

       

      “Receivables” means all
rights to the payment of a monetary obligation, now or hereafter owing to the
Borrower or any Guarantor, evidenced by accounts, instruments, chattel paper,
payment intangibles or general intangibles.

       

      “Receivables Purchase
Agreement” means the Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement
dated as of September 26, 2008, among Pilgrim’s Pride Funding Corporation,
as Seller, the Borrower, as Servicer, the various purchasers and purchaser
agents from time to time parties thereto and BMO Capital Markets Corp., as
Administrator, as supplemented, amended, restated and otherwise modified from
time to time.

       

      “Register” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 12.12(b) hereof.

       

      “Reimbursement Obligation”
shall have the meaning set forth in Section 1.2(c) hereof.

       

      “Release” means any spilling,
leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping,
leaching, migration, dumping, or disposing into the indoor or outdoor
environment, including, without limitation, the abandonment or discarding of
barrels, drums, containers, tanks or other receptacles containing or previously
containing any Hazardous Material.

       

      “Replacement Liens” means
(a) with respect to the Pre-Petition BMO Credit Facilities, the replacement
Liens granted to the Pre-Petition BMO Agent on all Collateral for and to the
extent of the post-petition use of Pre-Petition BMO Collateral and proceeds
thereof and for any post-petition diminution in value of Pre-Petition BMO
Collateral, and (b) with respect to the Pre-Petition CoBank Credit
Facilities, the replacement Liens granted to the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent on
all Collateral for and to the extent of the post-petition use of Pre-Petition
CoBank Collateral and proceeds thereof and for any post-petition diminution in
value of Pre-Petition CoBank Collateral

       

      “Reporting Date” means, with
respect to any month, the date occurring the number of days after the last day
of such month set forth below opposite such month:

       

      

      
        	
                Month

              	
                Number
      of days after the last day of the month

              
	
                October

              	
                60

              
	
                November

              	
                30

              
	
                December

              	
                45

              
	
                January

              	
                45

              
	
                February

              	
                30

              
	
                March

              	
                45

              
	
                April

              	
                45

              
	
                May

              	
                30

              
	
                June

              	
                45

              
	
                July

              	
                45

              
	
                August

              	
                30

              
	
                September

              	
                90

              

      

       

      “Required Lenders” means, as
of the date of determination thereof, Lenders holding more than 50% of the DIP
Commitments then in effect or, if the DIP Commitments have been terminated or
expired, Lenders whose outstanding Loans and interests in Letters of Credit
constitute more than 50% of the sum of the total outstanding Loans and interests
in Letters of Credit.

       

      “Restricted Group” means the
Borrower and its Subsidiaires other than Avicola and its
Subsidiaries.

       

      “Restricted Payment” shall
have the meaning set forth in Section 8.12 hereof.

       

      “Revolving Note” shall have
the meaning set forth in Section 1.10(d) hereof.

       

      “Secured Grower Payables”
shall mean all amounts owed from time to time by the Borrower or any Guarantor
to any Person on account of the purchase price of agricultural products or
services (including poultry and livestock) if the DIP Agent reasonably
determines that such Person is entitled to the benefits of any grower’s or
producer’s lien, statutory trust or similar security arrangements to secure the
payment of any amounts owed to such Person.

       

      “Subsidiary” means, as to any
particular parent corporation or organization, any other corporation or
organization, more than 50% of the voting power of the outstanding Voting Stock
of which is at the time directly or indirectly owned by such parent corporation
or organization or by any one or more other entities which are themselves
Subsidiaries of such parent corporation or organization.  Unless
otherwise expressly noted herein, the term “Subsidiary” means a direct or indirect
Subsidiary of the Borrower.

       

      “Super-majority Lenders”
means, as of the date of determination thereof, Lenders holding more than
66-2/3% of the DIP Commitments then in effect or, if the DIP Commitments have
been terminated or expired, Lenders whose outstanding Loans and interests in
Letters of Credit constitute more than 66-2/3% of the sum of the total
outstanding Loans and interests in Letters of Credit.

       

      “Superpriority Claim” shall
mean a claim against the Borrower or any of the Guarantors which is an
administrative expense claim with the priority authorized under
Section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, with priority over any or all
administrative expenses of the kind specified in Sections 503(b) or 507 of
the Bankruptcy Code and over any or all other costs and expenses of the kind
specified in, or ordered pursuant to, Sections 105, 326, 330, 331, 506(c)
or 726 of the Bankruptcy Code, whether arising or incurred in any of the Chapter
11 Cases or in any superseding case or cases under Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy
Code.

       

      “Swing Line” means the
credit facility for making one or more Swing Loans described in Section 1.6
hereof.

       

      “Swing Line Lender” means
Bank of Montreal, acting in its capacity as the Lender of Swing Loans hereunder,
or any successor Lender acting in such capacity appointed pursuant to
Section 12.12 hereof.

       

      “Swing Line Sublimit” means
$25,000,000, as reduced pursuant to the terms hereof.

       

      “Swing Loan” and “Swing Loans” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 1.6 hereof.

       

      “Swing Note” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 1.10 hereof.

       

      “Termination Date” means the
earliest to occur of the following: (a) the Maturity Date; (b) the
date that a plan of reorganization of any Debtor confirmed by an order of the
Bankruptcy Court entered pursuant to Sections 1129 and 1141 of the
Bankruptcy Code becomes effective pursuant to its terms, other than a plan of
reorganization that contemplates the sale of the stock or assets of a Guarantor
to which the Required Lenders have given their prior written consent or any
other plan of reorganization of a Guarantor to which the Required Lenders have
given their prior written consent; or (c) the date on which the Lenders
terminate the DIP Commitments after the occurrence of an Event of Default and
giving of three days written notice by the DIP Agent to the Borrower of such
Event of Default and of the Lenders’ intention to terminate the DIP Commitments
as a result thereof.  

       

      “Unfunded Vested Liabilities”
means, for any Plan at any time, the amount (if any) by which the present value
of all vested nonforfeitable accrued benefits under such Plan exceeds the fair
market value of all Plan assets allocable to such benefits, all determined as of
the then most recent valuation date for such Plan, but only to the extent that
such excess represents a potential liability of a member of the Controlled Group
to the PBGC or the Plan under Title IV of ERISA.

       

      “Unused DIP Commitments”
means, at any time, the difference between the DIP Commitments then in effect
and the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Loans and L/C
Obligations.

       

      “U.S. Dollars” and “$” each means the lawful
currency of the United States of America.

       

      “Value” means, with respect
to Eligible Inventory consisting of live broiler chickens, a price per pound
equal to 75% of (i) the price quoted on the Los Angeles Majority Market on the
date of calculation minus (ii) $0.085, rounded up to the nearest 1/4
cent.

       

      “Voting Stock” of any Person
means capital stock or other equity interests of any class or classes (however
designated) having ordinary power for the election of directors or other similar
governing body of such Person, other than stock or other equity interests having
such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency.

       

      “Welfare Plan” means a “welfare plan” as defined in
Section 3(1) of ERISA.

       

      Section
5.2                                Interpretation.  The
foregoing definitions are equally applicable to both the singular and plural
forms of the terms defined.  The words “include”, “includes” and
“including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without
limitation”.  Unless the context requires otherwise (a) any definition
of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be
construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as from
time to time amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented or otherwise
modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or
modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to any Person shall be
construed to include such Person’s permitted successors and permitted assigns,
and (c) the words “asset” and “property” shall mean and be construed to refer to
Property.  The words “hereof,” “herein,” and “hereunder” and words of
like import when used in this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole
and not to any particular provision of this Agreement.  All references
to time of day herein are references to Chicago, Illinois time unless otherwise
specifically provided.  Where the character or amount of any asset or
liability or item of income or expense is required to be determined, any
consolidation or other accounting computation is required to be made or any
accounting term is required to be interpreted, in each case for the purposes of
this Agreement, it shall be done in accordance with GAAP except where such
principles are inconsistent with the specific provisions of this
Agreement.

       

      Section
5.3                                Change in Accounting
Principles.  If, after the date of this Agreement, there shall
occur any change in GAAP or the application thereof from those used in the
preparation of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.5 hereof
and such change shall result in a change in the method of calculation of any
financial covenant, standard or term found in this Agreement or the application
thereof, either the Borrower or the Required Lenders may by notice to the
Lenders and the Borrower, respectively, require that the Lenders and the
Borrower negotiate in good faith to amend such covenants, standards, and terms
so as equitably to reflect such change in accounting principles or the
application thereof, with the desired result being that the criteria for
evaluating the financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be
the same as if such change had not been made.  No delay by the
Borrower or the Required Lenders in requiring such negotiation shall limit their
right to so require such a negotiation at any time after such a change in
accounting principles or the application thereof.  Until any such
covenant, standard, or term is amended in accordance with this Section 5.3,
financial covenants shall be computed and determined in accordance with GAAP in
effect prior to such change in accounting principles or the application
thereof.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the
Borrower shall neither be deemed to be in compliance with any financial covenant
hereunder nor out of compliance with any financial covenant hereunder if such
state of compliance or noncompliance, as the case may be, would not exist but
for the occurrence of a change in accounting principles or the application
thereof after the date hereof.

       

      Section
5.4                                Timing of Payment or
Performance.  When the payment of any obligation or the
performance of any covenant, duty or obligation is stated to be due or
performance required on a day which is not a Business Day, the date of such
payment or performance shall extend to the immediately succeeding Business Day
and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as
the case may be.

       

      Section
6.                                Representations
and Warranties.

       

      The
Borrower represents and warrants to the DIP Agent, the Lenders, and the
L/C Issuer as follows:

       

      Section
6.1                                Organization and
Qualification.  The Borrower is duly organized, validly
existing, and in good standing as a corporation under the laws of the
State of Delaware, has full and adequate power to own its Property and conduct
its business as now conducted, and is duly licensed or qualified and in good
standing in each jurisdiction in which the nature of the business conducted by
it or the nature of the Property owned or leased by it requires such licensing
or qualifying, except where the failure to do so would not have a Material
Adverse Effect.

       

      Section
6.2                                Subsidiaries.  Each
Subsidiary is duly organized, validly existing, and in good standing under the
laws of the jurisdiction in which it is organized, has full and adequate power
to own its Property and conduct its business as now conducted, and is duly
licensed or qualified and in good standing in each jurisdiction in which the
nature of the business conducted by it or the nature of the Property owned or
leased by it requires such licensing or qualifying, except where the failure to
do so would not have a Material Adverse Effect.  Schedule 6.2
hereto (as supplemented in accordance with this Agreement) identifies each
Subsidiary, the jurisdiction of its organization, the percentage of issued and
outstanding shares of each class of its capital stock or other equity interests
owned by the Borrower and the other Subsidiaries and, if such percentage owned
by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries is not 100% (excluding directors’
qualifying shares as required by law), a description of each class of its
authorized capital stock and other equity interests and the number of shares of
each class issued and outstanding.  Except as disclosed in
Schedule 6.2 (as supplemented in accordance with this Agreement), all of
the outstanding shares of capital stock and other equity interests of each
Subsidiary are validly issued and outstanding and fully paid and nonassessable
and all such shares and other equity interests indicated on Schedule 6.2
(as supplemented in accordance with this Agreement) as owned by the Borrower or
another Subsidiary are owned, beneficially and of record, by the Borrower or
such Subsidiary free and clear of all Liens other than the Liens granted in
favor of the DIP Agent pursuant to this Agreement and the Financing
Orders.  There are no outstanding commitments or other obligations of
any Subsidiary to issue, and no options, warrants or other rights of any Person
to acquire, any shares of any class of capital stock or other equity interests
of any Subsidiary other than pursuant to buy/sell or similar arrangements set
forth in the partnership agreements or limited liability company operating
agreements, as applicable, of certain non-wholly-owned
Subsidiaries.  Promptly upon the occurrence of any change in any
information contained in Schedule 6.2 the Borrower shall submit to the DIP
Agent a proposed revised form of Schedule 6.2, and upon acceptance by the
DIP Agent of such proposed revised form it shall be Schedule 6.2 of this
Agreement.

       

      Section
6.3                                Authority and Validity of
Obligations.  The Borrower has full right and authority to
enter into this Agreement and the other Loan Documents executed by it, to make
the borrowings herein provided for, to grant to the DIP Agent the Liens
described in the Collateral Documents executed by the Borrower, and to perform
all of its obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents executed by
it.  Each Guarantor has full right and authority to enter into the
Loan Documents executed by it, to guarantee the Post-Petition Obligations, to
grant to the DIP Agent the Liens described in this Agreement and the Financing
Orders, and to perform all of its obligations under the Loan Documents executed
by it.  The Loan Documents delivered by the Debtors have been duly
authorized, executed, and delivered by such Persons and constitute valid and
binding obligations of the Debtors enforceable against them in accordance with
their terms; and this Agreement and the other Loan Documents do not, nor does
the performance or observance by any Debtor of any of the matters and things
herein or therein provided for, (a) contravene or constitute a default
under any provision of law or any judgment, injunction, order or decree binding
upon such Debtor or any provision of the organizational documents (e.g.,
charter, certificate or articles of incorporation and by-laws, certificate or
articles of association and operating agreement, partnership agreement, or other
similar organizational documents) of such Debtor, (b) contravene or
constitute a default under any covenant, indenture or agreement of or affecting
the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any of their Property, in each case where such
contravention or default, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect (it being understood that any
covenant, indenture or agreement subject to the automatic stay could not be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect), or (c) result in the creation
or imposition of any Lien on any Property of the Borrower or any Subsidiary
other than the Liens granted in favor of the DIP Agent pursuant to the
Collateral Documents.

       

      Section
6.4                                Use of Proceeds; Margin
Stock.  The Borrower shall use the credit extended under this
Agreement solely for the purposes set forth in, or otherwise permitted by,
Section 8.19 hereof.  Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is
engaged in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or
carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U of the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System), and no part of the proceeds of any
Loan or any other extension of credit made hereunder will be used to purchase or
carry any such margin stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of
purchasing or carrying any such margin stock.  Margin stock
constitutes less than 25% of the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
which are subject to any limitation on sale, pledge or other restriction
hereunder.

       

      Section
6.5                                Financial
Reports.  The consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries as at September 30, 2007, and the related consolidated
statements of income, retained earnings and cash flows of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries for the fiscal year then ended, and accompanying notes thereto,
which financial statements are accompanied by the audit report of Ernst &
Young LLP, independent public accountants, and the unaudited interim
consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at
June 30, 2008, and the related consolidated statements of income, retained
earnings and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the
9 months then ended, heretofore furnished to the DIP Agent and the Lenders,
fairly present the consolidated financial condition of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries as at said dates and the consolidated results of their operations
and cash flows for the periods then ended in conformity with
GAAP.  Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary has contingent
liabilities required to be disclosed in accordance with GAAP which are material
to it other than as indicated on such financial statements or, with respect to
future periods, on the financial statements furnished pursuant to
Section 8.5 hereof.

       

      Section
6.6                                No Material Adverse
Change.  Since the Petition Date there has been no change in
the condition (financial or otherwise) or business prospects of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries taken as a whole except those occurring in the ordinary course
of business, none of which individually or in the aggregate could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

       

      Section
6.7                                Full
Disclosure.  The written statements and information furnished
to the DIP Agent and the Lenders in connection with the negotiation of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the commitments by the Lenders to
provide all or part of the financing contemplated hereby taken as a whole did
not as of the date furnished contain any untrue statements of a material fact or
omit a material fact necessary to make the material statements contained herein
or therein not materially misleading.  The projections or other
forward looking information furnished to the DIP Agent and the Lenders were, at
the time of submission, based on reasonable estimates and assumptions stated
therein, and reflected the reasonable estimate of Borrower of the results of
operations and other information projected therein.  Nothing in this
Section shall be deemed to constitute an assurance by Borrower or its
Subsidiaries that it will meet the results contained in such
projections.

       

      Section
6.8                                Trademarks, Franchises, and
Licenses.  The Borrower and its Subsidiaries own, possess, or
have the right to use all necessary patents, licenses, franchises, trademarks,
trade names, trade styles, copyrights, trade secrets, know how, and confidential
commercial and proprietary information to conduct their businesses as now
conducted, without known conflict with any patent, license, franchise,
trademark, trade name, trade style, copyright or other proprietary right of any
other Person which conflict could reasonably be expected to have a material
adverse effect on the ability of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to conduct
their businesses as now conducted.

       

      Section
6.9                                Governmental Authority and
Licensing.  The Borrower and its Subsidiaries have received all
licenses, permits, and approvals of all federal, state, and local governmental
authorities, if any, necessary to conduct their businesses, in each case where
the failure to obtain or maintain the same could reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect.  No investigation or proceeding which could
reasonably be expected to result in revocation or denial of any material
license, permit or approval is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower,
threatened, that could reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect
on the ability of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to conduct their businesses
as now conducted.

       

      Section
6.10                                Good Title.  The
Borrower and its Subsidiaries have good and defensible title (or valid leasehold
interests) to their material assets as reflected on the most recent consolidated
balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries furnished to the DIP Agent
and the Lenders (except for sales of assets in the ordinary course of business
or otherwise permitted hereunder), subject to no Liens other than such thereof
as are permitted by Section 8.8 hereof.

       

      Section
6.11                                Litigation and Other
Controversies.  There is no litigation or governmental or
arbitration proceeding or labor controversy pending, nor to the knowledge of the
Borrower threatened, against the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any of their
Property which, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect.

       

      Section
6.12                                Taxes.  All federal
and other material tax returns required to be filed by the Borrower or any
Subsidiary in any jurisdiction have, in fact, been filed, and all taxes,
assessments, fees, and other governmental charges upon the Borrower or any
Subsidiary or upon any of their Property, income or franchises after the
Petition Date, which are shown to be due and payable in such returns, have been
paid, except (i) in the case of the Debtors, taxes, assessments, fees and
other governmental charges for periods prior to the Petition Date and
(ii) such taxes, assessments, fees and governmental charges, if any, as are
being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings which prevent
enforcement of the matter under contest and as to which adequate reserves
established in accordance with GAAP have been provided.  The Borrower
does not know of any proposed additional tax assessment against it or its
Subsidiaries for which adequate provisions in accordance with GAAP have not been
made on their accounts.  Adequate provisions in accordance with GAAP
for taxes on the books of the Borrower and each Subsidiary have been made for
all open years, and for its current fiscal period.

       

      Section
6.13                                Approvals.  No
authorization, consent, license or exemption from, or filing or registration
with, any court or governmental department, agency or instrumentality, nor any
approval or consent of any other Person, is or will be necessary to the valid
execution, delivery or performance by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of any Loan
Document, except for such approvals which have been obtained prior to the date
of this Agreement and remain in full force and effect and the entry by the
Bankruptcy Court of the relevant Financing Order.

       

      Section 6.14.Affiliate
Transactions.  Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is a
party to any transaction, including without limitation, the purchase, sale,
lease or exchange of any Property, or the rendering of any service, with any
Affiliate of the Borrower or such Subsidiary except (a) pursuant to the
reasonable requirements of the Borrower’s or such Subsidiary’s business and, in
the case of any Affiliate that is not a Debtor, upon fair and reasonable terms
not materially less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary than would be
obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate
of the Borrower or such Subsidiary, (b) on-going transactions with
Affiliates of the type disclosed in the Borrower’s proxy statement for its
fiscal year ended September 30, 2006, (c) the sale of all
or substantially all of the Borrower’s or a Subsidiary’s Receivables pursuant to
the Fairway Receivables Securitization Program and prior to the Petition Date,
(d) any transaction entered into between any of the Subsidiaries,
(e) certain guaranties entered into prior to the Petition Date,
(f) the payment of guaranty fees to Pilgrim Interests prior to the Petition
Date, and (g) after the Petition Date, as permitted by  Section
8.15.

       

      Section
6.15                                Investment
Company.  Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is an
“investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” within
the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

       

      Section
6.16                                ERISA.  Except as
disclosed on Schedule 6.16, the Borrower and each other member of its
Controlled Group has fulfilled its obligations under the minimum funding
standards of ERISA and the Code to the extent applicable to it and has not
incurred any material liability to the PBGC or a Plan under Title IV of
ERISA other than a liability to the PBGC for premiums under Section 4007 of
ERISA.  Except as set forth on Schedule 6.16, neither the
Borrower nor any Subsidiary has any material contingent liabilities with respect
to any post-retirement benefits under a Welfare Plan, other than liability for
continuation coverage described in article 6 of Title I of
ERISA.  

       

      Section
6.17                                Compliance with
Laws.  (a) The Borrower and its Subsidiaries are in
compliance with the requirements of all federal, state and local laws, rules and
regulations applicable to or pertaining to their Property or business operations
(including, without limitation, the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970,
ERISA and the Code, the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and laws and
regulations establishing quality criteria and standards for air, water, land and
toxic or hazardous wastes and substances), where any such non-compliance,
individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.  Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary has
received notice to the effect that its operations are not in compliance with any
of the requirements of applicable federal, state or local environmental, health,
and safety statutes and regulations or is the subject of any governmental
investigation evaluating whether any remedial action is needed to respond to a
release of any toxic or hazardous waste or substance into the environment, where
any such non-compliance or remedial action, individually or in the aggregate,
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

       

      (b)           Without
limiting the representations and warranties set forth in Section 6.17(a)
above, except for such matters, individually or in the aggregate, which could
not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, the Borrower
represents and warrants that:  (i) the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, and each of the Premises, comply in all material respects with all
applicable Environmental Laws; (ii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries have
obtained all governmental approvals required for their operations and each of
the Premises by any applicable Environmental Law; (iii) the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries have not, and the Borrower has no knowledge of any other Person
who has, caused any Release, threatened Release or disposal of any Hazardous
Material at, on or about any of the Premises in any material quantity and, to
the knowledge of the Borrower, none of the Premises are adversely affected by
any Release, threatened Release or disposal of a Hazardous Material originating
or emanating from any other property; (iv)  none of the Premises contain
and have contained any:  (1) underground storage tank,
(2) material amounts of asbestos containing building material,
(3) landfills or dumps, (4) hazardous waste management facility as
defined pursuant to RCRA or any comparable state law, or (5) site on or
nominated for the National Priority List promulgated pursuant to CERCLA or any
state remedial priority list promulgated or published pursuant to any comparable
state law; (v) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries have not used a material
quantity of any Hazardous Material and have conducted no Hazardous Material
Activity at any of the Premises; (vi) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
have no material liability for response or corrective action, natural resource
damage or other harm pursuant to CERCLA, RCRA or any comparable state law;
(vii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries are not subject to, have no notice
or knowledge of and are not required to give any notice of any Environmental
Claim involving the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any of the Premises, and to
the actual knowledge of Borrower there are no conditions or occurrences at any
of the Premises which could reasonably be anticipated to form the basis for an
Environmental Claim against the Borrower or any Subsidiary or such Premises;
(viii) none of the Premises are subject to any, and the Borrower has no
knowledge of any imminent restriction on the ownership, occupancy, use or
transferability of the Premises in connection with any (1) Environmental
Law or (2) Release, threatened Release or disposal of a Hazardous Material;
and (ix) to the actual knowledge of Borrower there are no conditions or
circumstances at any of the Premises which pose an unreasonable risk to the
environment or the health or safety of Persons.

       

      Section
6.18                                Other
Agreements.  Neither the Borrower nor any Subsidiary is in
default under the terms of any covenant, indenture or agreement of or affecting
such Person or any of its Property (other than defaults occasioned by the filing
of the Chapter 11 Cases), which default could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.

       

      Section
6.19                                No Default.  No
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

       

      Section
6.20                                Financing
Orders.  The applicable Financing Order has been duly entered,
is valid, subsisting and continuing and has not been vacated, modified, or
reversed on appeal by any court and is not subject to any pending stay, in the
case of a modification in a manner which materially and adversely affects the
rights of the Lenders or the DIP Agent and which modification is not acceptable
to the Required Lenders.

       

      Section
6.21                                Super-Priority Administrative
Expense and Liens.  From and after the entry of the Interim
Financing Order, (a) the Post-Petition Obligations shall constitute
Superpriority Claims, and (b) pursuant to Sections 364(c)(2) and 364(d)(1)
of the Bankruptcy Code, the Post-Petition Obligations shall be secured by a
first priority Lien on the Collateral, subject only to the Permitted Liens (with
respect to clause (b) herein) and the fees and expenses subject to the
Administrative Expense Carve-Out (with respect to both clause (a) and clause (b)
herein).

       

      Section
7.                                Conditions
Precedent.

       

      Section
7.1                                All Credit
Events.  At the time of each Credit Event
hereunder:

       

      (a)           each
of the representations and warranties set forth herein and in the other Loan
Documents shall be and remain true and correct in all material respects as of
said time, except to the extent the same expressly relate to an earlier date in
which case they shall remain true and correct in all material respects as of
such earlier date;

      (b)           no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would occur
as a result of such Credit Event;

      (c)           in
the case of a Borrowing, the DIP Agent shall have received the notice required
by Section 1.5 hereof, in the case of the issuance of any Letter of Credit,
the L/C Issuer shall have received a duly completed Application for such
Letter of Credit together with any fees called for by Section 2.1 hereof,
and, in the case of an extension or increase in the amount of a Letter of
Credit, a written request therefor in a form acceptable to the L/C Issuer
together with fees called for by Section 2.1 hereof;

      (d)           at
the time of and immediately after giving effect to such Borrowing or the
issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of such Letter of Credit, as
applicable, the aggregate principal amount of all Loans and L/C Obligations then
outstanding shall not exceed the lesser of (i) the DIP Commitments then in
effect and (ii) the Borrowing Base as then determined;

      (e)           the
applicable Financing Order shall be in full force and effect and the Debtors
shall be in compliance with the terms thereof and the applicable Financing Order
shall be entered, not subject to a motion to reconsider and not subject to any
stay;

       

      (f)prior
to making any Loans or issuing any Letters of Credit in an aggregate amount in
excess of the Interim Financing Order Amount, (i) the Lenders shall have
received no later than the date that is two weeks prior to the date of the
hearing on the Final Financing Order such information as the Lenders may request
to determine the appropriate terms of the Final Financing Order and any
adjustments to the financial covenants contained in Section 8.22 of this
Agreement, (ii) this Agreement shall have been amended to include financial
covenants that are acceptable in form and substance to the Required Lenders and
(iii) the Final Financing Order, after notice given and a hearing conducted in
accordance with Bankruptcy Rule 4001(c) shall have been entered by the
Bankruptcy Court; and

       

      (g)such
Credit Event shall not violate any order, judgment or decree of any court or
other authority or any provision of law or regulation applicable to the DIP
Agent, the L/C Issuer, or any Lender (including, without limitation,
Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System) as
then in effect (it being understood that the inability of any Lender to make its
pro rata share of any Credit Event shall not excuse any other Lender from its
obligations to fund and/or participate in its pro rata share of such Credit
Event).

       

      Each
request for a Borrowing hereunder and each request for the issuance of, increase
in the amount of, or extension of the expiration date of, a Letter of Credit
shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Borrower on the date
of such Credit Event as to the facts specified in subsections (a) through
(e), both inclusive, of this Section; provided, however, that the Lenders may
continue to make advances under the DIP Credit, in the sole discretion of the
Lenders with DIP Commitments, notwithstanding the failure of the Borrower to
satisfy one or more of the conditions set forth above and any such advances so
made shall not be deemed a waiver of any Default or Event of Default or other
condition set forth above that may then exist.

       

      Section
7.2                                Initial Credit
Event.  Before or concurrently with the initial Credit
Event:

       

      (a)           the
DIP Agent shall have received this Agreement duly executed by the Borrower, the
Guarantors and the Lenders;

      (b)           if
requested by any Lender, the DIP Agent shall have received for such Lender such
Lender’s duly executed Notes of the Borrower dated the date hereof and otherwise
in compliance with the provisions of Section 1.10 hereof;

      (c)           the
DIP Agent shall have received (i) original stock certificates or other
similar instruments or securities representing all of the issued and outstanding
shares of capital stock or other equity interests in each Subsidiary of the
Debtors (65% of such capital stock in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary as
provided in Section 4.1 hereof) as of the Closing Date, and
(ii) patent, trademark, and copyright collateral agreements to the extent
requested by the DIP Agent or the Lenders, which are reasonably satisfactory in
form and substance to the DIP Agent and the Lenders;

      (d)           the
DIP Agent and the Lenders shall have received evidence of insurance coverage
(which shall be satisfactory to the DIP Agent and the Lenders), showing the DIP
Agent as mortgagee’s and lender’s loss payee thereunder with respect to its
interests as to casualty and business interruption insurance and reflecting all
affirmative coverage requested by the DIP Agent and the Lenders for the
protection of their interests;

      (e)           the
DIP Agent shall have received copies of the Borrower’s and each Guarantor’s
articles of incorporation and bylaws (or comparable organizational documents)
and any amendments thereto, certified in each instance by its Secretary or
Assistant Secretary;

      (f)           the
DIP Agent shall have received copies of resolutions of the Borrower’s and each
Guarantor’s Board of Directors (or similar governing body) authorizing the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents to which it is a party and the consummation of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby, together with specimen signatures of the
persons authorized to execute such documents on the Borrower’s and each
Guarantor’s behalf, all certified in each instance by its Secretary or Assistant
Secretary;

      (g)           the
DIP Agent shall have received copies of the certificates of good standing for
the Borrower and each Guarantor (dated no earlier than 30 days prior to the
date hereof) from the office of the secretary of the state of its incorporation
or organization and, to the extent available on the Closing Date, of each state
in which it is qualified to do business as a foreign corporation or
organization;

      (h)           the
DIP Agent shall have received a list of the Borrower’s Authorized
Representatives;

      (i)           the
DIP Agent shall have received the initial fees called for by Section 2.1
hereof;

      (j)           the
capital and organizational structure of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall
be satisfactory to the DIP Agent, the Lenders, and the
L/C Issuer;

      (k)           each
Lender and the L/C Issuer shall have received such evaluations and
certifications as it may reasonably require (including a Borrowing Base
Certificate containing calculations of the Borrowing Base after giving effect to
the repurchase and termination of the Fairway Receivables Securitization
Program) in order to satisfy itself as to the value of the Collateral, the
financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, and the lack of
material contingent liabilities of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries;

      (l)           (i)
execution and delivery by the Borrower and the Pilgrim’s Pride Funding
Corporation of a receivables purchase and reassignment agreement with
BMO Capital Markets Corp. which shall provide for the payment of all
non-contingent amounts owing under the Fairway Receivables Securitization
Program, and (ii) repurchase and termination of the outstanding Fairway
Receivables Securitization Program, evidenced by such receivables purchase and
reassignment agreement, which shall be in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to the DIP Agent and BMO Capital Markets Corp., with the
proceeds of the initial advance under the DIP Credit being advanced by the
Borrower to or for the account of the Pilgrim’s Pride Funding Corporation, with
all Transferred Receivables (as such term is defined in the Receivables Purchase
Agreement), and related receivable assets being simultaneously re-conveyed by
the “Purchasers” party to the Receivables Purchase Agreement to Pilgrim’s Pride
Funding Corporation and by Pilgrim’s Pride Funding Corporation to the
originating sellers so long as such party is a Debtor (all such receivables and
related assets to constitute Collateral hereunder) as contemplated by such
receivables purchase and reassignment agreement;

      (m)           the
Interim Financing Order in the form of Exhibit C hereto after notice given
and a hearing conducted in accordance with Bankruptcy Rule 4001(c) shall have
been entered by the Bankruptcy Court and shall not have been amended, reversed,
stayed, vacated, reversed or modified (in the case of an amendment or
modification in a manner which materially and adversely affects the rights of
the Lenders or the DIP Agent and which amendment or modification is not
acceptable to the Required Lenders);

      (n)           a
cash management order in the form of Exhibit I hereto, including procedures
requiring all proceeds of Collateral and all revenues, income and cash flow of
the Borrower and the Guarantors to be deposited in a Collection Account or such
other arrangement as is acceptable to the DIP Agent such that the DIP Agent
attains exclusive dominion and control of such accounts and proceeds of
collection deposited therein, shall have been entered by the Bankruptcy Court
and shall not have been amended, stayed, vacated, reversed or modified (in the
case of an amendment or modification in a manner which materially and adversely
affects the rights of the Lenders or the DIP Agent and which amendment or
modification is not acceptable to the Required Lenders);

      (o)           receipt
by the DIP Agent and the Lenders of the Budget, in form and substance
satisfactory to the DIP Agent and the Lenders, including itemization on a weekly
basis of all material expenditures proposed to be made during the first 13
weeks;

      (p)           no
trustee, or other disinterested Person with expanded powers pursuant to
Section 1104(c) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall have been appointed or
designated with respect to any Debtor or its respective business, assets or
Properties, including, without limitation the Collateral, no order shall be
entered appointing such a trustee or other disinterested Person and no motion by
or supported by the Debtors shall be pending seeking such relief;

      (q)           simultaneously
with the initial Credit Event, the Borrower shall reimburse the Pre-Petition BMO
Agent and the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders for all fees and expenses incurred by
them, including the reasonable fees and expenses of Chapman and Cutler LLP,
Chapman and Cutler LLP’s local counsel, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP and FTI
Consulting, Inc., in connection with the Pre-Petition BMO Credit Agreement and
the transactions contemplated hereby for which the Borrower has received an
invoice;

      (r)           simultaneously
with the initial Credit Event, the Borrower shall pay the reasonable
out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including the reasonable fees and expenses of
Chapman and Cutler LLP, Chapman and Cutler LLP’s local counsel, Morgan, Lewis
& Bockius LLP and FTI Consulting, Inc.) incurred by the Lenders and the DIP
Agent in connection with this Agreement and the transaction contemplated hereby
for which the Borrower has received an invoice;

      (s)           the
DIP Agent’s Liens in the Collateral shall be perfected first priority
Liens  and the Collateral shall be free and clear of all other Liens
except Permitted Liens;

      (t)           the
DIP Agent shall have received the favorable written opinion of counsel to the
Debtors in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the DIP Agent and the
Lenders;

      (u)           the
DIP Agent shall have received a fully executed Internal Revenue Service Form
W-9 for the
Borrower;

      (v)           the
Borrower shall have engaged William Snyder, or another chief restructuring
officer acceptable to the Required Lenders, and the scope of the chief
restructuring officer’s engagement and the authority granted to such chief
restructuring officer must be reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders
(it being understood that the scope of the engagement of and authority granted
to William Snyder is acceptable); and

      (w)           the
DIP Agent and the Lenders shall have received such other agreements,
instruments, documents, certificates, and opinions as the DIP Agent and Lenders
may reasonably request and which are reasonably satisfactory in form and
substance to the Lenders.

       

      Section
8.                                Covenants.

       

      The
Borrower agrees that, so long as any credit is available to or in use by the
Borrower hereunder, except to the extent compliance in any case or cases is
waived in writing pursuant to the terms of Section 12.13
hereof:

       

      Section
8.1                                Maintenance of
Business.  The Borrower shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary
to, preserve and maintain its existence.  The Borrower shall, and
shall cause each Subsidiary to, preserve and keep in force and effect all
licenses, permits, franchises, approvals, patents, trademarks, trade names,
trade styles, copyrights, and other proprietary rights necessary to the proper
conduct of its business where the failure to do so could reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect.

       

      Section
8.2                                Maintenance of
Properties.  The Borrower shall, and shall cause each
Subsidiary to, maintain, preserve, and keep its material property, plant, and
equipment in good repair, working order and condition (ordinary wear and tear
and casualty or condemnation excepted), and shall from time to time make all
needful and proper repairs, renewals, replacements, additions, and betterments
thereto so that at all times the efficiency thereof shall be fully preserved and
maintained, except to the extent that, (i) in the reasonable business
judgment of such Person, any such Property is no longer necessary for the proper
conduct of the business of such Person or (ii) such repair, renewal,
replacement, addition or betterment is not permitted by the Budget.

       

      Section
8.3                                Taxes and
Assessments.  The Borrower shall duly pay and discharge, and
shall cause each Subsidiary to duly pay and discharge, all federal and other
material taxes, assessments, fees, and other governmental charges upon or
against it or its Property, in the case of the Debtors, for periods after the
Petition Date, in each case before the same become delinquent and before
penalties accrue thereon, unless and to the extent that (i) the same are
being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings which prevent
enforcement of the matter under contest and adequate reserves are provided
therefor, or (ii) in the case of the Debtors, such taxes, assessments, fees
or other governmental charges relate to periods prior to the Petition
Date.

       

      Section
8.4                                Insurance.  The
Borrower shall insure and keep insured, and shall cause each Subsidiary to
insure and keep insured, with good and responsible insurance companies, all
insurable Property owned by it which is of a character usually insured by
Persons similarly situated and operating like Properties against loss or damage
from such hazards and risks, and in such amounts, as are insured by Persons
similarly situated and operating like Properties; and the Borrower shall insure,
and shall cause each Subsidiary to insure, such other hazards and risks
(including, without limitation, business interruption, employers’ and public
liability risks) with good and responsible insurance companies as and to the
extent usually insured by Persons similarly situated and conducting similar
businesses; provided, that the Borrower and its Subsidiaries may self-insure for
workmen’s compensation, group health risks and their live chicken inventory in
accordance with their past practices.  The Borrower shall, upon the
request of the DIP Agent, furnish to the DIP Agent and the Lenders a certificate
setting forth in summary form the nature and extent of the insurance maintained
pursuant to this Section.

       

      Section
8.5                                Financial
Reports.  The Borrower shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary
to, maintain a standard system of accounting allowing the preparation of the
financial statements in accordance with GAAP and shall furnish to the DIP Agent,
each Lender, the L/C Issuer and each of their duly authorized
representatives such information respecting the business and financial condition
of the Borrower and each Subsidiary (including without limitation projections,
budgets, business plans and cash flows) as the DIP Agent or such Lender may
reasonably request; and without any request, shall furnish to the DIP
Agent:

       

      (a)           on
Thursday of each week and promptly after the completion of any Disposition
outside the ordinary course of business that results in Net Proceeds in excess
of $1,000,000 in the aggregate, a Borrowing Base Certificate showing the
computation of the Borrowing Base in reasonable detail as of the close of
business on the last day of the preceding week or after giving effect to such
Disposition, as the case may be, together with an accounts receivable and
accounts payable aging, prepared by the Borrower and certified to by its chief
financial officer, chief restructuring officer, controller, vice president and
assistant to the treasurer and chief financial officer or another officer of the
Borrower reasonably acceptable to the DIP Agent;

      (b)           as
soon as available, and in any event no later than 20 days after the last
day of each calendar month, a copy of the monthly operating report filed with
the Bankruptcy Court;

       

      (c)as
soon as available, and in any event no later than the applicable Reporting Date
for each calendar month, a copy of the consolidated balance sheet of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the last day of such month and the
consolidated statements of income and cash flows of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries for the month and for the fiscal year-to-date period then ended,
each in reasonable detail showing in comparative form the figures for the
corresponding date and period in the previous fiscal year, prepared by the
Borrower (but not necessarily in accordance with GAAP) and certified to by its
chief financial officer, chief restructuring officer or another officer of the
Borrower acceptable to the DIP Agent;

       

      (d)as
soon as available, and in any event no later than 45 days after the last
day of each fiscal quarter of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a copy of the
consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the last
day of such fiscal quarter and the consolidated statements of income, retained
earnings, and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal
quarter and for the fiscal year-to-date period then ended, each in reasonable
detail showing in comparative form the figures for the corresponding date and
period in the previous fiscal year, prepared by the Borrower in accordance with
GAAP (subject to the absence of footnote disclosures and year-end audit
adjustments) and certified to by its chief financial officer, chief
restructuring officer or another officer of the Borrower reasonably acceptable
to the DIP Agent;

       

      (e)as
soon as available, and in any event no later than 90 days after the last
day of each fiscal year of the Borrower, a copy of the consolidated balance
sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the last day of the fiscal year
then ended and the consolidated statements of income, retained earnings, and
cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year then ended,
and accompanying notes thereto, each in reasonable detail showing in comparative
form the figures for the previous fiscal year, accompanied by an opinion of
Ernst & Young LLP or another firm of independent public accountants of
recognized national standing, selected by the Borrower and reasonably
satisfactory to the DIP Agent and the Required Lenders, to the effect that the
consolidated financial statements have been prepared in accordance with GAAP and
present fairly in accordance with GAAP the consolidated financial condition of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the close of such fiscal year and the
results of their operations and cash flows for the fiscal year then ended and
that an examination of such accounts in connection with such financial
statements has been made in accordance with generally accepted auditing
standards and, accordingly, such examination included such tests of the
accounting records and such other auditing procedures as were considered
necessary in the circumstances;

       

      (f)promptly
after receipt thereof, any additional final written report or, final management
letters contained in writing concerning significant aspects of the Borrower’s or
any Subsidiary’s operations and financial affairs given to it by its independent
public accountants;

       

      (g)promptly
after the sending or filing thereof, copies of each financial statement, report,
notice or proxy statement sent by the Borrower or any Subsidiary to its
stockholders or other equity holders generally, and copies of each regular,
periodic or special report, registration statement or prospectus (including all
Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and Form 8-K reports) filed by the Borrower or any
Subsidiary with any securities exchange or the Securities and Exchange
Commission or any successor agency; provided, that information
required to be delivered pursuant to this Section 8.5(f) shall be deemed to
have been delivered if such information shall be available on the website of the
Securities and Exchange Commission at http://www.sec.gov or on the website of
the Borrower.

       

      (h)promptly
after receipt thereof, a copy of each material audit made by any regulatory
agency of the books and records of the Borrower or any Subsidiary or of final
notice of any material noncompliance with any applicable law, regulation or
guideline relating to the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or its business (in each
case subject to any confidentiality restrictions imposed on the Borrower or such
Subsidiary);

       

      (i)notice
of any Change of Control;

       

      (j)promptly
after knowledge thereof shall have come to the attention of any Designated
Officer of the Borrower, written notice of (i) any threatened (in writing)
or pending litigation or governmental or arbitration proceeding or labor
controversy against the Borrower or any Subsidiary or any of their Property
which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect,
(ii) the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default hereunder, or
(iii) the existence of any material contingent liability not disclosed on
the Borrower’s most recent financial statements;

       

      (k)with
each of the financial statements delivered pursuant to subsections (c), (d)
and (e) above, a written certificate in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit F signed by the chief financial officer, chief restructuring
officer of the Borrower or another officer of the Borrower acceptable to the DIP
Agent to the effect that, to such officer’s knowledge and belief, no Default or
Event of Default has occurred during the period covered by such statements or,
if any such Default or Event of Default has occurred during such period, setting
forth a description of such Default or Event of Default and specifying the
action, if any, taken by the Borrower or any Subsidiary to remedy the
same.  Such certificate shall also set forth the calculations
supporting such statements in respect of Section 8.22 hereof;

       

      (l)on
Friday of each week, commencing December 12, 2008, a projected updated
budget for the 13-week period commencing with such week in the same form as the
Budget then in effect and otherwise in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the DIP Agent and the Required Lenders and certified by the
chief restructuring officer of the Borrower;

       

      (m)on
Friday of each week, commencing December 12, 2008, a report (the “Budget Report”) in such form
(i) showing the actual receipts and disbursements of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries during the immediately preceding week, and (ii) comparing the
actual receipts and disbursements for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to the
receipts and disbursements shown in the Budget both for the week covered by such
Budget Report and on a cumulative basis for the period from the Petition Date
through the last day of the immediately preceding week in each of the categories
set forth in the Budget, each Budget Report to be in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the DIP Agent and the Required Lenders and certified
by the chief restructuring officer of the Borrower;

       

      (n)promptly
upon receiving the same, copies of all written offers which the Borrower or any
Guarantor should reasonably expect to be of interest to the Lenders and
agreements regarding the sale or recapitalization of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary;

       

      (o)promptly
after the same is available, copies of all pleadings, motions, applications,
judicial information, financial information and other documents filed by or on
behalf of the Borrower or any of the Guarantors with the Bankruptcy Court in the
Chapter 11 Cases, or distributed by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of
the Guarantors to any official committee appointed in the Chapter 11 Cases;
and

       

      (p)as
soon as available, and in any event no later than the applicable Reporting Date
for each calendar month, a copy of divisional operating reports in a form to be
mutually agreed upon by the Borrower and the DIP Agent and certified to by its
chief financial officer, chief restructuring officer or another officer of the
Borrower acceptable to the DIP Agent.

       

      Section
8.6                                Inspection.  The
Borrower shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary to, permit the DIP Agent, each
Lender, the L/C Issuer, their counsel and financial advisors, and each of
their duly authorized representatives and agents to visit and inspect any of its
Property, corporate books, and financial records, to examine and make copies of
its books of accounts and other financial records, and to discuss its affairs,
finances, and accounts with, and to be advised as to the same by, its officers,
employees and independent public accountants (and by this provision the Borrower
hereby authorizes such accountants to discuss with the DIP Agent, such Lenders,
the L/C Issuer and their counsel and financial advisors, the finances and
affairs of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, provided that the Borrower and its
advisors shall have the opportunity to be present at any such meeting) at such
times and intervals as the DIP Agent or any such Lender or L/C Issuer may
designate provided that the Borrower shall be afforded reasonable notice of and
opportunity to attend any discussions with its accountants.

       

      Section
8.7                                Borrowings and
Guaranties.  The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any
Subsidiary to, issue, incur, assume, create or have outstanding any Indebtedness
for Borrowed Money, or be or become liable as endorser, guarantor, surety or
otherwise for any debt, obligation or undertaking of any other Person, or
otherwise agree to provide funds for payment of the obligations of another, or
supply funds thereto or invest therein or otherwise contract to assure a
creditor of another against loss, or apply for or become liable to the issuer of
a letter of credit which supports an obligation of another, or subordinate any
claim or demand it may have to the claim or demand of any other Person
(collectively, “indebtedness”); provided,
however, that the foregoing shall not restrict nor operate to
prevent:

       

      (a)           the
Post-Petition Obligations of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries owing to the DIP Agent and the Lenders (and their
Affiliates);

       

      (b)           purchase
money indebtedness and Capitalized Lease Obligations of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries in an amount not to exceed $45,000,000 in the aggregate at any one
time outstanding incurred to finance the replacement of tangible personal
property (other than inventory and farm products) that has become obsolete or
worn out;

       

      (c)           endorsement
of items for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of
business;

       

      (d)the
Pre-Petition BMO Obligations;

       

      (e)the
Pre-Petition CoBank Obligations;

       

      (f)the
Avicola Pre-Petition Obligations;

       

      (g)indebtedness
evidenced by the Borrower’s 8-3/8% Senior Subordinated Notes due 2017
outstanding on the Petition Date;

       

      (h)indebtedness
evidenced by the Borrower’s 7-5/8% Senior Notes due May 1, 2015 outstanding
on the Petition Date;

       

      (i)indebtedness
evidenced by the Borrower’s 9-1/4% Senior Subordinated Notes due
November 15, 2013, outstanding on the Petition Date;

       

      (j)indebtedness
with respect to letters of credit (other than letters of credit issued under the
Pre-Petition BMO Loan Documents) outstanding on the Petition Date and listed on
Schedule 8.7, and any amendment, modification, extension, renewal or
replacement thereof;

       

      (k)indebtedness
of Non-debtor Subsidiaries to the Borrower arising from intercompany advances
permitted by Sections 8.9(d), (f) and (g);

       

      (l)indebtedness
in respect of Intercompany Bonds outstanding on the Petition Date;

       

      (m)indebtedness
under the Fairway Receivables Securitization Program, provided such indebtedness
shall be paid in full (except for any contingent indemnification claims, costs,
fees, and expenses (including, without limitation, costs, fees and expenses of
counsel) that survive the termination of the Fairway Receivables Securitization
Program) out of the proceeds of the initial Borrowing made under this
Agreement;

       

      (n)secured
indebtedness outstanding on the Petition Date and unsecured Indebtedness for
Borrowed Money in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or more outstanding on the
Petition Date and in each case listed on Schedule 8.7 to this
Agreement;

       

      (o)other
unsecured indebtedness outstanding on the Petition Date;

       

      (p)indebtedness
in respect of hedging agreements permitted pursuant to
Section 8.25;

       

      (q)indebtedness
in respect of sale/leaseback transactions permitted pursuant to
Section 8.10;

       

      (r)indebtedness
which may be deemed to exist in connection with customary agreements providing
for indemnification, purchase price adjustments, earnouts and similar
obligations in connection with dispositions permitted pursuant to
Section 8.10;

       

      (s)indebtedness
(i) among the Debtors and (ii) of the Borrower or any Guarantor to any
Non-debtor Subsidiary subject to compliance with
Section 8.9(d);

       

      (t)indebtedness
consisting of the financing of insurance premiums, so long as the aggregate
amount payable pursuant to such indebtedness does not materially exceed the
amount of the premium for such insurance;

       

      (u)indebtedness
arising from the honoring by a bank or other financial institution of a check,
draft or similar instrument drawn against insufficient funds in the ordinary
course of business, provided, that such Indebtedness is extinguished within five
Business Days of its incurrence;

       

      (v)cash
management obligations and indebtedness in respect of netting services,
overdraft protection and similar arrangements in connection with cash management
and deposit accounts;

       

      (w)Indebtedness
for Borrowed Money of the type set forth in subsection (c) of the
definition of Indebtedness for Borrowed Money solely to the extent such Lien is
permitted by Section 8.8 and the indebtedness secured by such Lien is not
any other type of indebtedness;

       

      (x)indebtedness
representing deferred compensation to directors, officers, members, of
management, employees or consultant of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the
ordinary case of business;

       

      (y)contingent
obligations in respect of indemnities or similar agreements to hold others
harmless arising in the ordinary course of business;

       

      (z)contingent
obligations arising under operating leases and similar contracts in the ordinary
course of business that do not constitute Indebtedness for Borrowed Money;
and

       

      (aa)indebtedness
consisting of take or pay obligations contained in supply agreements incurred in
the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices.

       

      Section
8.8                                Liens.  The
Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, create, incur or
permit to exist any Lien of any kind on any Property owned by any such Person;
provided, however, that the foregoing shall not apply to nor operate to
prevent:

       

      (a)           Liens
arising by statute in connection with worker’s compensation, unemployment
insurance, old age benefits, social security obligations, taxes, assessments,
statutory obligations or other similar charges (other than Liens arising under
ERISA), good faith cash deposits in connection with tenders, contracts or leases
to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary is a party or other bonds or cash
deposits required to be made in the ordinary course of business, provided in
each case that (i) the obligation is not for borrowed money and the
obligation secured is not overdue or, if overdue, is being contested in good
faith by appropriate proceedings which prevent enforcement of the matter under
contest and adequate reserves have been established therefor or (ii) in the
case of the Debtors, such taxes, assessments, statutory obligations or other
similar charges related to periods prior to the Petition Date so long as
enforcement of such Liens is stayed;

      (b)           mechanics’,
workmen’s, materialmen’s, landlords’, carriers’ or other similar Liens arising
in the ordinary course of business with respect to obligations which are not
overdue or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
which prevent enforcement of the matter under contest;

      (c)           (i)
judgment liens and judicial attachment liens not constituting an Event of
Default under Section 9.1(h) hereof and (ii) the pledge of assets for the
purpose of securing an appeal, stay or discharge in the course of any legal
proceeding, provided that the aggregate amount of such judgment liens,
attachments and liabilities of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries secured by a
pledge of assets permitted under this subsection, including interest and
penalties thereon, if any, shall not be in excess of $10,000,000 at any one time
outstanding;

      (d)           Liens
on tangible personal property (other than inventory and farm products) of the
Borrower or any Subsidiary created solely for the purpose of securing
indebtedness permitted by Section 8.7(b) hereof, representing or incurred
to finance the purchase price of such Property, provided that no such Lien shall
extend to or cover other Property of the Borrower or such Subsidiary other than
the respective Property so acquired and the proceeds and products thereof and
accessions thereto, and the principal amount of indebtedness secured by any such
Lien shall at no time exceed the purchase price of such Property (and related
costs and expenses), as reduced by repayments of principal thereon and payments
of such related costs and expenses;

      (e)           any
interest or title of a lessor under any operating lease;

      (f)           easements,
rights-of-way, restrictions, minor defects, irregularities, and other similar
encumbrances against real property incurred in the ordinary course of business
which do not materially detract from the value of the Property subject thereto
or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the
Borrower or any Subsidiary;

      (g)           Liens
in the Pre-Petition BMO Collateral in favor of the Pre-Petition BMO Agent for
the benefit of the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders to secure the Pre-Petition BMO
Obligations, provided that such Liens are subject and subordinated to the Liens
in the Collateral granted in favor of the DIP Agent for the benefit of the DIP
Agent and the Lenders pursuant to this Agreement and the Financing
Orders;

      (h)           Liens
in the Pre-Petition CoBank Collateral in favor of the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent
for the benefit of the Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders to secure the Pre-Petition
CoBank Obligations, provided that such Liens are subject and subordinated to the
Liens in the Collateral granted in favor of the DIP Agent for the benefit of the
DIP Agent and the Lenders pursuant to this Agreement and the Financing
Orders;

      (i)           Liens
in the Collateral granted in favor of the DIP Agent for the benefit of the DIP
Agent and the Lenders pursuant to the Loan Documents and the Financing
Orders;

      (j)           Replacement
Liens in the Collateral in favor of the Pre-Petition BMO Agent for the benefit
of the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders to secure the Borrower’s Adequate Protection
Obligations relating to the Pre-Petition BMO Collateral, provided that such
Liens are subject and subordinated to (i) the Liens in the Collateral
granted in favor of the DIP Agent for the benefit of the DIP Agent and the
Lenders pursuant to this Agreement and the Financing Orders, (ii) the
Administrative Expense Carve-Out, and (iii) the Replacement Liens in the
Pre-Petition CoBank Primary Collateral in favor of the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent
for the benefit of the Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders; and provided further that
such Replacement Lien in Property that was unencumbered prior to the Petition
Date (other than inventory, accounts receivable, rights against growers, and the
products and proceeds of the foregoing, in which the Replacement Lien granted to
the Pre-Petition BMO Agent shall be senior and prior to the Replacement Lien
therein granted to the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent) shall rank pari passu with the
Replacement Lien in such Property granted to the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent and
the Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders;

      (k)           Replacement
Liens in the Collateral in favor of the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent for the
benefit of the Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders to secure the Borrower’s Adequate
Protection Obligations relating to the Pre-Petition CoBank Collateral, provided
that such Liens are subject and subordinated to (i) the Liens in the
Collateral granted in favor of the DIP Agent for the benefit of the DIP Agent
and the Lenders pursuant to this Agreement and the Financing Orders,
(ii) the Administrative Expense Carve-Out, and (iii) the Replacement
Liens in the Pre-Petition BMO Primary Collateral in favor of the Pre-Petition
BMO Agent for the benefit of the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders; and provided further
that such Replacement Lien in Property that was unencumbered prior to the
Petition Date (other than inventory, accounts receivable, rights against
growers, and the products and proceeds of the foregoing, in which the
Replacement Lien granted to the Pre-Petition BMO Agent shall be senior and prior
to the Replacement Lien therein granted to the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent) shall
rank pari passu with the Replacement Lien in such Property granted to the
Pre-Petition BMO Agent and the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders;

      (l)           Liens
in the Avicola Pre-Petition Collateral granted to the Avicola Pre-Petition Agent
to secure the Avicola Pre-Petition Obligations;

      (m)           deposits
existing on the Petition Date in respect of letters of credit issued and
outstanding on the Petition Date and permitted by Section 8.7 hereof to
secure either the relevant Debtor’s obligations to the issuer of such letters of
credit or the obligations supported by such letters of credit (and any
amendment, modification, extension, renewal or replacement
thereof);

      (n)           deposits
securing utilities and trade creditors in the ordinary course of
business;

      (o)           Liens
in feed ingredients granted to the sellers of such feed ingredients to secure
the unpaid purchase price thereof;

      (p)           Liens
on the equity interests of any farm credit institution required to be purchased
from time to time by Borrower in favor of the issuer thereof;

      (q)           Liens
existing as of the Petition Date and set forth as
Schedule 8.8;

      (r)           (i)
leases, subleases, licenses and sublicenses granted to other Persons not
interfering in any material respect with the ordinary course of the business of
the Borrower or its Subsidiaries and (ii) the rights reserved or vested in any
Person by the terms of any lease, license, franchise, grant or permit held by
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or by a statutory provision, to
terminate any such lease, license, franchise, grant or permit, or to require
annual or periodic payments as a condition to the continuance
thereof;

      (s)           Liens
arising out of consignment or similar arrangements for the sale of goods entered
into by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of
business;

      (t)           bankers’
Liens, rights of setoff and other similar Liens on cash and investments
permitted by Section 8.9 on deposit in one or more accounts maintained by
the Borrower or any Subsidiary, in each case granted in the ordinary course of
business in favor of the bank or banks with which such accounts are maintained,
securing amounts owing to such bank with respect to cash management and
operating account arrangements, including those involving pooled accounts and
netting arrangements in respect of such deposit accounts, and not securing any
obligations relating to any extension of credit;

      (u)           the
filing of UCC financing statements solely as a precautionary measure in
connection with operating leases or consignment of goods;

      (v)           Liens
arising pursuant to sale and leaseback transactions permitted pursuant to
Section 8.10 to so long as such Liens do not attach to any assets of the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries other than those which are the subject of
such and sale leaseback transactions;

       

      (w)Liens
(i) consisting of an agreement to dispose of any Property in a disposition
permitted under Section 8.10 and (ii) earnest money deposits of cash
or cash equivalents by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with
any letter of intent or purchase agreement permitted hereunder;

       

      (x)Liens
in respect of hedge obligations permitted pursuant to Section 8.25 hereof,
provided that the
Required Lenders shall have given their prior written consent thereto on a case
by case basis; and

       

      (y)Liens
encumbering reasonable customary initial deposits and margin deposits attaching
to commodity trading accounts or other brokerage accounts incurred in the
ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes, provided that the Required
Lenders shall have given their prior written consent thereto on a case by case
basis.

       

      Section
8.9                                Investments, Acquisitions, Loans and
Advances.  The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any
Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly, make, retain or have outstanding any
investments (whether through purchase of stock or obligations or otherwise) in,
or loans or advances to (other than for travel advances and other similar cash
advances made to employees in the ordinary course of business), any other
Person, or acquire all or any substantial part of the assets or business of any
other Person or division thereof; provided, however, that the foregoing shall
not apply to nor operate to prevent:

       

      (a)           investments
in direct obligations of the United States of America or of any agency or
instrumentality thereof whose obligations constitute full faith and credit
obligations of the United States of America, provided that any such obligations
shall mature within one year of the date of issuance thereof;

      (b)           investments
in money market funds that invest solely, and which are restricted by their
respective charters to invest solely, in investments of the type described in
subsection (a) above;

      (c)           the
Borrower’s investments existing on the Petition Date and listed on
Schedule 8.9(c);

      (d)           intercompany
advances made from time to time by the Borrower to Non-debtor Subsidiaries other
than the Insurance Subsidiaries, including Avicola and its Subsidiaries, for
operating expenses and not for the repayment of Indebtedness for Borrowed Money
and consistent with past practices as it relates to Avicola and its Subsidiaries
purchasing feed ingredients from the Borrower, in an amount such that the
aggregate of all such amounts receivable by the Borrower from such Non-debtor
Subsidiaries, net of the aggregate of all such amounts payable by the Borrower
to such Non-debtor Subsidiaries, shall not exceed such net amount calculated as
of the Petition Date by more than $25,000,000 in the aggregate at any time, with
disclosure to the Lenders of the nature and extent of such funding, provided that (i) neither the
Borrower nor any of the other Debtors may guaranty any portion of such funding,
(ii) such funding shall be made pursuant to the Budget or another budget to be
agreed upon by the Required Lenders, (iii) such Subsidiaries shall not
accumulate cash or inventory above the levels necessary in the ordinary course
of business, (iv) such advances shall be evidenced by a revolving promissory
note of such Subsidiary payable to the order of the Borrower, which promissory
note shall be part of the Collateral and shall be delivered to the DIP Agent
endorsed in blank or otherwise in a manner acceptable to the DIP Agent, and (v)
such Non-debtor Subsidiary shall agree to repay such revolving promissory note
with any available cash not needed to fund its operations in the ordinary course
of business;

      (e)           intercompany
investments made from time to time by the Borrower to a Guarantor or by a
Guarantor to the Borrower or another Guarantor in the ordinary course of
business for operating expenses and not for the repayment of Indebtedness for
Borrowed Money;

      (f)           payment
of interest to Gold Kist Insurance in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$2,400,000 during any year and other amounts payable to Gold Kist Insurance to
enable it to pay claims made by the Borrower in excess of the amount of all
other funds available to Gold Kist Insurance for such purpose and consistent
with the Budget or otherwise approved by the Required Lenders and the DIP Agent,
provided that Gold Kist Insurance continues to pay claims made by the Borrower
in a manner consistent with past practices;

      (g)           payment
of insurance premiums to Mayflower in an aggregate amount not to exceed
$27,000,000 in any year or such other amount as may be approved by the Required
Lenders and the DIP Agent, provided that Mayflower continues to pay claims made
by the Borrower in a manner consistent with past practices;

      (h)           investments
consisting of hedging arrangements permitted pursuant to
Section 8.25;

      (l)           capital
plan and investments in equity interests of any farm credit institution required
in accordance with the by-laws or capital plan of such farm credit institution
and existing on the Petition Date;

      (m)           investments,
if any, arising from the sale of receivables pursuant to the Fairway Receivables
Securitization Program; provided such investments
shall be terminated and such receivables repurchased using the proceeds of the
initial Borrowing under this Agreement;

      (n)           advances
to officers, employees and contract growers of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past
practices;

      (o)           advances
to the Borrower or any Guarantor by any Non-debtor Subsidiary;

      (p)           investments
permitted pursuant to Section 8.10;

      (q)           investments
by the Insurance Subsidiaries that are permitted by their investment policies
attached hereto as Schedule 8.9(q);

      (r)           with
respect to Avicola and its Subsidiaries, investments that are the Mexican
equivalents of the investments described in subsections (a) and (b) above;
and

      (s)           any
investments received (i) in compromise of (A) obligations of any Person that
were incurred in the ordinary course of business, including pursuant to any plan
of reorganization or similar arrangement upon the bankruptcy or insolvency of
any such Person or (B) litigation, arbitration or other disputes; or (ii) as a
result of a foreclosure by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with respect
to any secured investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured
investment in default.

       

      In
determining the amount of investments, acquisitions, loans, and advances
permitted under this Section, investments and acquisitions shall always be taken
at the original cost thereof (regardless of any subsequent appreciation or
depreciation therein), and loans and advances shall be taken at the principal
amount thereof then remaining unpaid.

       

      Section
8.10                                Mergers, Consolidations and
Sales.  The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any
Subsidiary to, be a party to any merger or consolidation, or sell, transfer,
lease or otherwise dispose of all or any part of its Property, including any
disposition of Property as part of a sale and leaseback transaction, or in any
event sell or discount (with or without recourse) any of its notes or accounts
receivable; provided,
however, that this Section shall not apply to nor operate to
prevent:

       

      (a)the
sale or lease of inventory in the ordinary course of business;

       

      (b)the
sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of Property of the Borrower and the
Guarantors to one another in the ordinary course of its business;

       

      (c)the
sale, transfer or other disposition of any tangible personal property that, in
the reasonable business judgment of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, has
become obsolete or worn out, and which is disposed of in the ordinary course of
business;

       

      (d)the
sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of Property of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary (including any disposition of Property as part of a sale and
leaseback transaction) aggregating for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries not
more than $1,000,000 during the term of this Agreement;

       

      (e)the
sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of Property of the Non-debtor
Subsidiaries to any other Non-debtor Subsidiary;

       

      (f)any
merger, consolidation, or sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of Property
of Avicola and its Subsidiaries permitted under the Avicola Pre-Petition Credit
Agreement as in effect on the Petition Date, but only for so long as the Avicola
Pre-Petition Credit Agreement is in effect and any
Avicola  Pre-petition Obligations remain outstanding;

       

      (g)the
merger or consolidation of any Non-debtor Subsidiary with any other Non-debtor
Subsidiary; and

       

      (h)the
sale of machinery and equipment by the Debtors to Non-debtor Subsidiaries for
fair value and on terms no less favorable to the relevant Debtor than such
Debtor could have obtained from an unaffiliated third party in an arm’s length
transaction.

       

      Section
8.11                                Maintenance of
Subsidiaries.  The Borrower shall not assign, sell or transfer,
nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to issue, assign, sell or transfer, any
shares of capital stock or other equity interests of a Subsidiary; provided, however, that the
foregoing shall not operate to prevent (a) Liens on the capital stock or
other equity interests of Subsidiaries granted to the DIP Agent pursuant to this
Agreement, the Financing Orders and the Collateral Documents, (b) the
issuance, sale, and transfer to any Person of any shares of capital stock of a
Subsidiary solely for the purpose of qualifying, and to the extent legally
necessary to qualify, such Person as a director of such Subsidiary,
(c) dispositions permitted pursuant to Section 8.10, or (d) Liens
granted on the equity interests of Avicola and its Subsidiaries and on the
Property of Avicola and it is Subsidiaries to secure the Avicola Pre-Petition
Obligations.

       

      Section
8.12                                Dividends and Certain Other
Restricted Payments.  The Borrower shall not, nor shall it
permit any Subsidiary to, (a) declare or pay any dividends on or make any
other distributions in respect of any class or series of its capital stock or
other equity interests (other than dividends or distributions payable solely in
its capital stock or other equity interests), or (b) directly or indirectly
purchase, redeem, or otherwise acquire or retire any of its capital stock or
other equity interests or any warrants, options, or similar instruments to
acquire the same (collectively referred to herein as “Restricted Payments”); provided, however, that the
foregoing shall not operate to prevent the making of dividends or distributions
by any Subsidiary to (i) the Borrower, (ii) any Subsidiary, and
(iii) any other shareholder ratably in accordance with their pro-rata
share; and provided
further, that the foregoing shall not operate to prevent the making of
dividends or distributions by Avicola and its Subsidiaries that are otherwise
permitted under the Avicola Pre-Petition Credit Agreement as in effect on the
Petition Date for so long as the Avicola Pre-Petition Credit Agreement is in
effect and any Avicola Pre-petition Obligations are outstanding.

       

      Section
8.13                                ERISA.  The
Borrower shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary to, promptly pay and discharge
all obligations and liabilities arising under ERISA of a character which if
unpaid or unperformed could reasonably be expected to result in the imposition
of a Lien against any of its Property.  The Borrower shall, and shall
cause each Subsidiary to, promptly notify the DIP Agent and each Lender
of:  (a) the occurrence of any reportable event (as defined in
ERISA) with respect to a Plan, (b) receipt of any written notice from the
PBGC of its intention to seek termination of any Plan or appointment of a
trustee therefor, (c) its intention to terminate or withdraw from any Plan,
and (d) the occurrence of any event with respect to any Plan which would
result in the incurrence by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of any material
liability, fine or penalty, or any material increase in the contingent liability
of the Borrower or any Subsidiary with respect to any post-retirement Welfare
Plan benefit.

       

      Section
8.14                                Compliance with
Laws.  (a) The Borrower shall, and shall cause each
Subsidiary to, comply in all respects with the requirements of all federal,
state, and local laws, rules, regulations, ordinances and orders applicable to
or pertaining to its Property or business operations, where any such
non-compliance, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect or result in a Lien upon any of its Property,
other than Permitted Liens and Liens arising in connection with matters being
diligently contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings that prevent the
enforcement thereof or which are otherwise stayed and for which adequate
reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP.

       

      (b)           Without
limiting the agreements set forth in Section 8.14(a) above, the Borrower
shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary to, at all times, do the following to the
extent the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:  (i) comply in all
material respects with, and maintain each of the Premises in compliance in all
material respects with, all applicable Environmental Laws; (ii) require
that each tenant and subtenant, if any, of any of the Premises or any part
thereof comply in all material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws;
(iii) obtain and maintain in full force and effect all material
governmental approvals required by any applicable Environmental Law for
operations at each of the Premises; (iv) cure any material violation by it
or at any of the Premises of applicable Environmental Laws; (v) not allow
the presence or operation at any of the Premises of any (1) landfill or
dump or (2) hazardous waste management facility or solid waste disposal
facility as defined pursuant to RCRA or any comparable state law; (vi) not
manufacture, use, generate, transport, treat, store, release, dispose or handle
any Hazardous Material at any of the Premises except in the ordinary course of
its business and in de minimis amounts; (vii) within ten (10) Business Days
notify the DIP Agent in writing of and provide any reasonably requested
documents upon learning of any of the following in connection with the Borrower
or any Subsidiary or any of the Premises: (1) any material liability for
response or corrective action, natural resource damage or other harm pursuant to
CERCLA, RCRA or any comparable state law; (2) any material Environmental
Claim; (3) any material violation of an Environmental Law or material
Release, threatened Release or disposal of a Hazardous Material; (4) any
restriction on the ownership, occupancy, use or transferability arising pursuant
to any (x) Release, threatened Release or disposal of a Hazardous Material
or (y) Environmental Law; or (5) any environmental, natural resource,
health or safety condition, which could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect; (viii) conduct at its expense any investigation,
study, sampling, testing, abatement, cleanup, removal, remediation or other
response action necessary to remove, remediate, clean up or abate any material
Release, threatened Release or disposal of a Hazardous Material as required by
any applicable Environmental Law, (ix) abide by and observe any
restrictions on the use of the Premises imposed by any governmental authority as
set forth in a deed or other instrument affecting the Borrower’s or any
Subsidiary’s interest therein; (x) promptly provide or otherwise make
available to the DIP Agent any reasonably requested environmental record
concerning the Premises which the Borrower or any Subsidiary possesses or can
reasonably obtain; and (xi) perform, satisfy, and implement any operation
or maintenance actions required by any governmental authority or Environmental
Law, or included in any no further action letter or covenant not to sue issued
by any governmental authority under any Environmental Law.

       

      Section
8.15                                Burdensome Contracts With
Affiliates.  The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any
Subsidiary to, enter into any contract, agreement or business arrangement with
any of its Affiliates except:

       

      (a)           pursuant
to the reasonable requirements of the Borrower’s or such Subsidiary’s business
and, in the case of any Affiliate that is not a Debtor, upon fair and reasonable
terms not materially less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary than
would be obtained in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person not an
Affiliate of the Borrower or such Subsidiary;

      (b)           investments
permitted by Section 8.9;

      (c)           reasonable
and customary director, officer and employee compensation (including bonuses and
severance) and other benefits (including retirement, health, stock option and
other benefit plans) and reimbursement and indemnification arrangements in the
ordinary course of business and in good faith; and

      (d)           loans
and transactions between or among the Borrower and one or more of its
Subsidiaries expressly permitted by Sections 8.7 or 8.9 of this
Agreement.

       

      Section
8.16                                No Changes in Fiscal
Year.  The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any
Subsidiary to, change its fiscal year from its present basis.

       

      Section
8.17                                Formation of
Subsidiaries.  The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any
Subsidiary to, form or acquire any Subsidiary.

       

      Section
8.18                                Change in the Nature of
Business.  Other than as contemplated in the Budget, the
Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, cease operations in
any of its businesses or taking any material action for the purpose of effecting
the foregoing without the prior written consent of the Required
Lenders.

       

      Section
8.19                                Use of
Proceeds.  The Borrower shall use the credit extended under
this Agreement solely for (a) Loans and Letters of Credit for payment of
normal operating expenses consistent with the Budget, subject to variances
permitted hereunder, (b) Loans to fund drawings under the Letters of
Credit, (c) Loans for the payment of professional fees of the DIP Agent,
the Pre-Petition BMO Agent and the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders related to the DIP
Credit and the Pre-Petition BMO Credits, (d) Loans for the payment of
interest, fees and expenses on the DIP Credit, (e) Loans for payment of the
Administrative Expense Carve-Out, (f) funding the purchase of outstanding
transferred receivables and related assets relating to the termination of the
Fairway Receivables Securitization Program, and payment of all amounts owing
under the Fairway Receivables Securitization Program (including, without
limitation, all fees, expenses and expenses of counsel), (g) Loans for the
payment of interest, fees, and expenses with respect to the Pre-Petition BMO
Credits as adequate protection to the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders and the
Pre-Petition BMO Agent, (h) Loans for the payment of interest, fees, and
expenses with respect to the Pre-Petition CoBank Credit Facilities as adequate
protection to the Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders and the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent,
and (i) Loans for the payment of professional fees of the Pre-Petition
CoBank Agent and the Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders related to the Pre-Petition
CoBank Credit Facilities.

       

      Section
8.20                                No
Restrictions.  Except as provided herein, the Borrower shall
not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly create or
otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual
encumbrance or restriction of any kind on the ability of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary to:  (a) pay dividends or make any other distribution
on any Subsidiary’s capital stock or other equity interests owned by the
Borrower or any other Subsidiary, (b) pay any indebtedness owed to the
Borrower or any other Subsidiary, (c) make loans or advances to the
Borrower or any other Subsidiary, (d) transfer any of its Property to the
Borrower or any other Subsidiary, or (e) to guarantee the Post-Petition
Obligations and/or grant Liens on its assets to the DIP Agent as required by the
Financing Orders and the Loan Documents.  The provisions of this
Section 8.20 will not apply to encumbrances and restrictions existing under
or by reason of:

       

      (i) any
agreement governing any indebtedness permitted by Section 8.7(b)
restricting the voluntary transfer of the Property subject to a Lien permitted
by Section 8.8(d) that secures such indebtedness;

       

      (ii) mandatory
provisions of applicable law to the extent not stayed, pre-empted, over-riden,
superseded or otherwise modified by the Bankruptcy Code, the Financing Orders
and any other orders that may be entered by the Bankruptcy Court in the Chapter
11 Cases;

       

      (iii) customary
provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease governing a
leasehold interest of the Borrower or a Subsidiary;

       

      (iv) customary
provisions restricting assignment of any agreement entered into by the Borrower
or a Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business, but only to the extent such
restrictions are enforceable under mandatory provisions of applicable law and to
the extent not stayed, pre-empted, over-riden, superseded or otherwise modified
by the Bankruptcy Code, the Financing Orders and any other orders that may be
entered by the Bankruptcy Court in the Chapter 11 Cases;

       

      (v) any
holder of a Lien permitted by Sections 8.8(c)(ii), (d), (e), (l), (m), (n),
(o), (p), (r), (u), (v), (w), (x) and (y) restricting the voluntary transfer of
the Property subject thereto;

       

      (vi) customary
restrictions and conditions contained in any agreement relating to the sale of
any Property permitted under Section 8.10 pending the consummation of such
sale or in leases, subleases, license or sub-licenses relating to the assets
covered thereby in each case restricting the voluntary transfer of the property
subject thereto;

       

      (vii) customary
provisions in partnership agreements, limited liability company organizational
governance documents, asset sale and stock sale agreements and other similar
agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business that restrict the
transfer of ownership interests in such partnership, limited liability company
or similar Person, but only to the extent such restrictions are enforceable
under mandatory provisions of applicable law and to the extent not stayed,
pre-empted, over-riden, superseded or otherwise modified by the Bankruptcy Code,
the Financing Orders and any other orders that may be entered by the Bankruptcy
Court in the Chapter 11 Cases;

       

      (viii) restrictions
on cash or other deposits or net worth imposed by suppliers or landlords under
contracts entered into in the ordinary course of business to the extent such
restrictions are enforceable under mandatory provisions of applicable law and to
the extent not stayed, pre-empted, over-riden, superseded or otherwise modified
by the Bankruptcy Code, the Financing Orders and any other orders that may be
entered by the Bankruptcy Court in the Chapter 11 Cases;

       

      (ix) customary
provisions in joint venture agreements and similar agreements applicable to
joint ventures relating solely to such joint venture, but only to the extent
such restrictions are enforceable under mandatory provisions of applicable law
and to the extent not stayed, pre-empted, over-riden, superseded or otherwise
modified by the Bankruptcy Code, the Financing Orders and any other orders that
may be entered by the Bankruptcy Court in the Chapter 11 Cases;

       

      (x) restrictions
contained in the Avicola Pre-Petition Credit Agreement of the type described in
subsections (a), (b), (c) and (d) of this Section 8.20 that apply only
to Avicola and its Subsidiaries and their respective Property, but only for so
long as the Avicola Pre-Petition Credit Agreement is in effect or any Avicola
Pre-Petition Obligations remain outstanding;

       

      (xi) customary
restrictions imposed on Pilgrim’s Pride Funding Corporation in connection with
the Receivables Purchase Agreement;

       

      (xii) contractual
encumbrances or restrictions in effect on the Petition Date on the Non-debtor
Subsidiaries’ ability to pay dividends and other payments to the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries, and any amendments, modifications, restatements, renewals,
increases, supplements, refundings, replacements or refinancings that are not
more restrictive, taken as a whole, with respect to such dividend and other
payment restrictions than those contained in those agreements in effect on the
Petition Date.

       

      Section
8.21                                DIP Agent’s and Lenders’ Financial
Consultant.  The DIP Agent (or its counsel) and the Lenders (or
their special counsel) shall have the right to engage jointly on behalf of the
Lenders a financial advisor, selected by the DIP Agent and acceptable to the
Required Lenders, to review, evaluate and advise the DIP Agent and the Lenders
as to the reports, analyses and cash flow forecasts and other materials prepared
by the Borrower’s financial consultants relating to the financial condition,
operating performance, and business prospects of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries and to perform such other information gathering or evaluation acts
as may be reasonably requested by the DIP Agent or the Required Lenders, and the
reasonable costs and expenses of such financial advisor shall be borne by the
Borrower and constitute part of the Post-Petition Obligations outstanding under
this Agreement.  The Borrower shall take reasonable steps to make
available to such financial advisor and its representatives such information
respecting the financial condition, operating performance, and business
prospects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as may be reasonably requested
and shall make the Borrower’s financial consultants, officers, employees, and
independent public accountants available with reasonable prior notice to discuss
such information with such financial advisor and its representatives.

       

      Section
8.22                                Financial
Covenants.   (a) Capital
Expenditures.  The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any
other member of the Restricted Group to, incur Capital Expenditures in an amount
in excess of $150,000,000 in the aggregate for the entire Restricted Group
during the period commencing on the Petition Date and ending on the Maturity
Date, of which no more than $107,000,000 may be funded with the proceeds of
Loans and Letters of Credit obtained under this Agreement. 

       

      Section
8.23                                Chapter 11
Claims.  The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of
its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly create, incur, assume or suffer to
exist (in each case, to “Incur”) or permit any
unsecured claim in the Chapter 11 Cases or any superseding case or cases under
Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code (including, without limitation, any
deficiency claim remaining after the satisfaction of a Lien that secures a
claim) to be pari passu with or senior to the claims of the DIP Agent, the L/C
Issuer and the Lenders against the Borrower and the Guarantors on the
Post-Petition Obligations, or apply to the Bankruptcy Court for authority so to
do, except for the Administrative Expense Carve-Out.

       

      Section
8.24                                Executory Contracts, Pre-Petition
Debt and Payments Outside the Ordinary Course of Business.  The
Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or
indirectly (a) purchase any assets outside the ordinary course of business,
(b) in the case of the Debtors, assume any material executory contracts
(other than the executory contracts listed on Exhibit J) under
Section 365 of the Bankruptcy Code without the prior approval of the DIP
Agent and the Required Lenders, (c) in the case of the Debtors, pay any
pre-petition debt, other than (i) the Pre-Petition BMO Obligations and the
Pre-Petition CoBank Obligations, in each case as permitted by this Agreement and
the Financing Order, (ii) pre-petition obligations owed to Normalized Trade
Creditors to the extent set forth in the Budget, and (iii) pre-petition
obligations to other Essential Creditors that are not trade creditors, to the
extent set forth in the Budget, (d) make any payments other than in respect
of the Post-Petition Obligations, the Pre-Petition BMO Obligations, the
Pre-Petition CoBank Obligations or the Administrative Expense Carve-Out as
otherwise permitted hereunder and by the Financing Order outside the ordinary
course of their respective businesses, and (e) make any guaranty fee
payments to Pilgrim Interests, or any other Person (including without limitation
any holder of any equity or other interest in Pilgrim Interests). 

       

      Section
8.25                                Restriction on
Hedging.  The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of
its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly enter into any interest rate,
foreign currency or commodity hedging agreements or arrangements other than
commodity hedging arrangements entered into at the request or direction of a
customer or with the prior written approval of the Required Lenders in each case
with financial institutions in connection with bona fide hedging activities in
the ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes.

       

      Section
8.26                                The
Budget.  (a) The Borrower shall not permit the total
aggregate disbursements made during any period of four consecutive weeks
(including any portion of such period occurring before the Petition Date) for
items included in the Budget other than interest on the Post-Petition
Obligations, professional fees and deposits with utilities to exceed the amounts
set forth in the Budget for such items for such period by more than 10% of such
amounts.

       

      (b)           The
Budget may be modified by the Borrower at any time with the written approval of
the DIP Agent and the Required Lenders.

       

      (c)           The
Budget shall be redetermined to the Required Lenders’ reasonable satisfaction
promptly after the consummation of any Disposition outside the ordinary course
of business that results in Net Proceeds in excess of $1,000,000.

       

      (d)           No
later than the last Business Day of every fourth week after the Closing Date
(commencing December 19, 2008), the Borrower shall provide to the Lenders a
proposed updated budget for the succeeding 13 weeks as well as all of the weeks
covered by the Budget that is then in effect, which proposed updated budget must
be in form and substance satisfactory to the DIP Agent and the Required
Lenders.  If such proposed updated budget is approved by the DIP Agent
and the Required Lenders it shall be the Budget for all purposes of this
Agreement.

       

      Section
8.27                                Subsidiary Distributions,
Etc.  To the extent permitted by applicable law and regulation
and, so long as the Avicola Pre-Petition Credit Agreement is in effect or any
Avicola Pre-Petition Obligations remain outstanding, the Avicola Pre-Petition
Credit Agreement, the Debtors shall take such action from time to time as may be
required to cause Net Proceeds from the disposition of Subsidiaries or their
assets to the extent available for distribution, and amounts available for
distribution by any Joint Venture that has received proceeds of any Loan made
hereunder, to be distributed and paid over to the Borrower.

       

      Section
8.28                                Borrower’s Financial Consultants
Engagements; Sale of Certain Assets.  The Borrower shall at all
times continue to engage one or more financial consulting, brokerage firms, or
employees selected by it and reasonably acceptable to the DIP Agent and the
Required Lenders, to explore and evaluate the prompt sale of the assets agreed
in a separate letter agreement by the parties hereto, in the case of financial
consultants or brokers, under one or more written engagement letters in form and
substance reasonably acceptable to the DIP Agent and the Required
Lenders.  No later than the 60th day after the Petition Date the
Borrower shall agree to a process for the sale of assets agreed in a separate
letter agreement by the parties hereto acceptable to the Required Lenders with a
time-line and process acceptable to the Required Lenders.

       

      Section
8.29                                Engagement of Chief Restructuring
Officer.  The Borrower shall engage at all times a chief
restructuring officer reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders (it being
understood that William Snyder is acceptable).  In the event a chief
restructuring officer ceases for any reason to act in that capacity the Borrower
shall engage a successor chief restructuring officer reasonably acceptable to
the Required Lenders within 10 Business Days (or such greater number of Business
Days as shall be acceptable to the Required Lenders) of such
event.  The chief restructuring officer shall continue to be engaged
by the Borrower so long as any Post-Petition Obligations remain outstanding or
any DIP Commitments remain in effect.  The scope of the chief
restructuring officer’s engagement and the authority granted to such chief
restructuring officer (including in each case any successor chief restructuring
officer) must be reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders (it being
understood that the scope of engagement of and authority, in each case, of the
type provided to William Snyder is acceptable).

       

      Section
9.                                Events
of Default and Remedies.

       

      Section
9.1                                Events of
Default.  Any one or more of the following shall constitute an
“Event of Default”
hereunder:

       

      (a)           default
in the payment when due of all or any part of the principal of any Loan (whether
at the stated maturity thereof or at any other time provided for in this
Agreement) or of any Reimbursement Obligation, or default for a period of two
(2) days in the payment when due of any interest, fee or other Obligation
payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document;

      (b)           default
in the observance or performance of any covenant set forth in Sections 8.1,
8.5 (excluding subsections (l) and (m) thereof), 8.7, 8.8, 8.9, 8.10, 8.11,
8.12, 8.19, 8.22, 8.23, 8.24 or 8.26 hereof or of any
provision in any Loan Document dealing with the use, disposition or remittance
of the proceeds of Collateral or requiring the maintenance of insurance
thereon;

      (c)           default
in the observance or performance of any covenant set forth in
Sections 8.5(l) and (m) hereof which is not remedied within 1 Business
Day after the occurrence thereof;

      (d)           default
in the observance or performance of any other provision hereof or of any other
Loan Document which is not remedied within 30 days after the earlier of
(i) the date on which such failure shall first become known to any
Designated Officer of the Borrower or (ii) written notice thereof is given
to the Borrower by the DIP Agent;

      (e)           any
representation or warranty made herein or in any other Loan Document or in any
certificate furnished to the DIP Agent or the Lenders pursuant hereto or thereto
proves untrue in any material respect as of the date of the issuance or making
or deemed making thereof;

      (f)           any
of the Loan Documents shall for any reason not be or shall cease to be in full
force and effect or is declared to be null and void, or any of the Collateral
Documents shall for any reason fail to create a valid and perfected first
priority Lien in favor of the DIP Agent in any Collateral purported to be
created thereby except as expressly permitted by the terms thereof, or any
Debtor takes any action for the purpose of terminating, repudiating or
rescinding any Loan Document executed by it or any of its obligations
thereunder;

      (g)           default
shall occur under any Indebtedness for Borrowed Money issued, assumed or
guaranteed (in the case of the Debtors, after the Petition Date) by the Borrower
or any Subsidiary aggregating in excess of $10,000,000, or under any indenture,
agreement or other instrument under which the same may be issued, and such
default shall continue for a period of time sufficient to permit the
acceleration of the maturity of any such Indebtedness for Borrowed Money
(whether or not such maturity is in fact accelerated) or any such Indebtedness
for Borrowed Money shall not be paid when due (whether by demand, lapse of time,
acceleration or otherwise) after giving effect to any applicable notice and
grace periods;

      (h)           any
judgment or judgments, writ or writs or warrant or warrants of attachment, or
any similar process or processes, shall be entered or filed against the Borrower
or any Subsidiary, or against any of its Property, in an aggregate amount in
excess of $10,000,000 (except to the extent covered by insurance pursuant to
which the insurer has not specifically disclaimed liability therefor in
writing), and which remains undischarged, unvacated, unbonded or unstayed for a
period of 30 days from the date of its entry;

      (i)           the
Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any member of its Controlled Group, shall fail to
pay when due an amount or amounts aggregating in excess of $10,000,000 which it
shall have become liable to pay to the PBGC or to a Plan under Title IV of
ERISA; or notice of intent to terminate a Plan or Plans having aggregate
Unfunded Vested Liabilities in excess of $10,000,000 (collectively, a “Material Plan”) shall be
filed under Title IV of ERISA by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any
other member of its Controlled Group, any plan administrator or any combination
of the foregoing; or the PBGC shall institute proceedings under Title IV of
ERISA to terminate or to cause a trustee to be appointed to administer any
Material Plan or a proceeding shall be instituted by a fiduciary of any Material
Plan against the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any member of its Controlled
Group, to enforce Section 515 or 4219(c)(5) of ERISA and such proceeding
shall not have been dismissed or stayed within 30 days thereafter; or a
condition shall exist by reason of which the PBGC would be entitled to obtain a
decree adjudicating that any Material Plan must be terminated;

      (j)           any
Change of Control shall occur;

       

      (k)any
Material Non-debtor Subsidiary shall (i) have entered involuntarily against
it an order for relief under the Bankruptcy Code, as amended, (ii) not pay,
or admit in writing its inability to pay, its debts generally as they become
due, (iii) make an assignment for the benefit of creditors, (iv) apply
for, seek, consent to or acquiesce in, the appointment of a receiver, custodian,
trustee, examiner, liquidator or similar official for it or any substantial part
of its Property, (v) institute any proceeding seeking to have entered
against it an order for relief under the Bankruptcy Code, as amended, to
adjudicate it insolvent, or seeking dissolution, winding up, liquidation,
reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition of it or its debts under
any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or relief of
debtors or fail to file an answer or other pleading denying the material
allegations of any such proceeding filed against it, (vi) take any
corporate (or analogous) action in furtherance of any matter described in
parts (i) through (v) above, or (vii) fail to contest in good faith
any appointment or proceeding described in Section 9.1(l) hereof;
or

       

      (l)a
custodian, receiver, trustee, examiner, liquidator or similar official shall be
appointed for any Material Non-debtor Subsidiary, or any substantial part of any
of its Property, or a proceeding described in Section 9.1(k)(v) shall be
instituted against any Material Non-debtor Subsidiary, and such appointment
continues undischarged or such proceeding continues undismissed or unstayed for
a period of 60 days; or

       

      (m)The
failure of the Borrower or any Guarantor to comply with any of the terms of the
Financing Order; or

       

      (n)The
granting of a Lien on or other interest in any Property of the Borrower or any
Guarantor, or Superpriority Claim, by any court which is superior to or ranks in
parity with the Lien of the DIP Agent granted in this Agreement and the
Financing Order except for the Administrative Expense Carve-Out or as otherwise
permitted hereunder or under the Financing Order; or

       

      (o)Any
Lien purported to be created by this Agreement, the Interim Financing Order or
the Final Financing Order in any of the Collateral shall, for any reason other
than the acts of the DIP Agent, the Lenders, the Pre-Petition BMO Agent or the
Pre-Petition BMO Lenders, cease to be a valid and perfected Lien against any of
the Collateral purported to be covered thereby pursuant to Sections 364(c)
and (d) of the Bankruptcy Code or any action is commenced by any Debtor which
contests the validity, perfection or enforceability of any pre-petition Liens of
the Pre-Petition BMO Agent under any of the Pre-Petition BMO Loan Documents or
any Lien created by this Agreement, the Interim Financing Order or the Final
Financing Order; or

       

      (p)The
Borrower shall fail to timely provide any adequate protection payments to the
Pre-Petition BMO Lenders as set forth in any Financing Order; or

       

      (q)Any
material provision of any Loan Document shall, for any reason, cease to be valid
and binding on the Borrower or any of the Guarantors, or the Borrower or any of
the Guarantors shall so assert in any pleading filed in any court;
or

       

      (r)Any of
the Chapter 11 Cases shall be dismissed or converted to a case under
Chapter 7 of the Bankruptcy Code; or

       

      (s)A
trustee under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code shall be appointed in any
of the Chapter 11 Cases; or

       

      (t)An
order of the Bankruptcy Court shall be entered in any of the Chapter 11
Cases appointing an examiner or other person with enlarged powers relating to
the operation of the business (powers beyond those set forth in
Section 1106(a)(3) and (4) of the Bankruptcy Code) under
Section 1106(b) of the Bankruptcy Code; or

       

      (u)The
Financing Order shall be amended, reversed, stayed, vacated or modified, in the
case of an amendment or modification in a manner which materially and adversely
affects the rights of the Lenders or the DIP Agent and which amendment or
modification is not acceptable to the Required Lenders; or

       

      (v)An
application shall be filed by any Debtor for the approval of any other
Superpriority Claim in any of the Chapter 11 Cases which is pari passu with or
senior to the claims of the DIP Agent and the Lenders with respect to the
Post-Petition Obligations (except for the Administrative Expense Carve-Out) or
there shall arise any such pari passu or Superpriority Claim; or

       

      (w)The
Bankruptcy Court shall enter an order or orders granting relief from the
automatic stay under Section 362 of the Bankruptcy Code to a third party
with respect to any assets of the Borrower or any Guarantor having an aggregate
net book value (determined in accordance with GAAP) in excess of $20,000,000 in
the aggregate; or

       

      (x)The
Bankruptcy Court shall not enter an order making a Lien Finding acceptable to
the DIP Agent within 150 days (or such later date as may be agreed to by the DIP
Agent) following the date of the appointment of a creditors’ committee;
or

       

      (y)Any
material adverse change shall occur in the condition or prospects, financial or
otherwise, of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, after the
Petition Date; or

       

      (z)The
Final Financing Order shall not be entered within 45 days after the Petition
Date or such later date as to which the Required Lenders may agree;
or

       

      (aa)If
any of the Debtors seeks an order in the Debtors’ Chapter 11 Cases or supports
any applications therefore which authorize (without (a) all Post-Petition
Obligations outstanding to the Lenders under the DIP Credit and the Adequate
Protection Obligations fully being indefeasibly satisfied in full in cash or (b)
the DIP Agent, the Pre-Petition BMO Agent and the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent
providing their prior written consent): (i) under Bankruptcy Code § 363, the use
of cash collateral in which the DIP Agent, the Pre-Petition BMO Agent or the
Prep-Petition CoBank Agent have an interest, or the sale, use, or lease, other
than in the ordinary course of business, of other Property of the Debtors in
which the DIP Agent, the Pre-Petition BMO Agent or the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent
have an interest; (ii) the obtaining of credit or the incurring of indebtedness
pursuant to Bankruptcy Code §§ 364(c) or (d), or any other grant of rights
against the Debtors and/or their estates, secured by a lien, mortgage or
security interest in the Collateral held by the DIP Agent, the Pre-Petition BMO
Agent or the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent or entitled to priority administrative
status which is junior, equal or superior to that granted to the DIP Agent, the
Lenders, the Pre-Petition BMO Agent, the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders, the
Pre-Petition CoBank Agent  or the Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders (with
respect to the Replacement Liens) herein; (iii) to the extent permitted by law,
the return of goods by the Debtors pursuant to Bankruptcy Code § 546(c); or (iv)
an order dismissing the Chapter 11 Cases.

       

      Section
9.2                                Consequences of Event of
Default.  Upon the occurrence of the Maturity Date and upon the
occurrence and during the continuation of any Event of Default beyond the
applicable cure period (if any) and after three Business Days’ prior written
(including e-mail, facsimile, U.S. mail and personal delivery) notice by the DIP
Agent to the Borrower, any official committee and the U.S. Trustee of such Event
of Default (other than with respect to the actions described in subsections (a)
and (c) below, as to which such notice is not required), the DIP Agent, upon
request of the Required Lenders shall take any or all of the following actions,
in each case without further order of or application to the Bankruptcy
Court:

       

      (a)           declare
the principal of and accrued interest on the outstanding Post-Petition
Obligations to be immediately due and payable;

      (b)           set
off any amounts in any account (including any accounts maintained by any Debtor
with the DIP Agent);

      (c)           terminate
the DIP Commitments and any other obligations of the Lenders to extend any
further credit hereunder;

      (d)           demand
that any Cash Collateral be applied to reduce or collateralize the Post-Petition
Obligations as set forth in the second paragraph of Section 3.1 hereof;
and

      (e)           demand
payment of interest on the Post-Petition Obligations at the Default Rate, in
which event interest at such Default Rate shall accrue and be payable as therein
set forth without further order of or application to the Bankruptcy
Court.

       

      The
automatic stay shall be deemed lifted as to the Collateral and the DIP Agent,
upon request of the Required Lenders shall, (without regard to whatever other
action the DIP Agent or the Lenders may be taking), foreclose and realize upon
and exercise any other rights or remedies permitted by the applicable documents,
at law or otherwise, with respect to the Collateral.

       

      Section
9.3                                Relief from
Stay.  Nothing contained in this Agreement shall impair or
otherwise affect the Lenders’ right to seek relief from the automatic stay as to
their Collateral for cause at any time, which right the Lenders hereby fully
reserve.

       

      Section
10.                                Guarantee.

       

      Section
10.1                                Guarantee.  (a) Each
of the Guarantors hereby, jointly and severally, unconditionally and
irrevocably, guarantees to the DIP Agent, for the ratable benefit of the Lenders
and their respective successors, indorsees, transferees and assigns, the prompt
and complete payment and performance by the Borrower when due (whether at the
stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise) of the Post-Petition
Obligations.

       

      (b)           Anything
herein or in any other Loan Document to the contrary notwithstanding, the
maximum liability of each Guarantor hereunder and under the other Loan Documents
shall in no event exceed the amount which can be guaranteed by such Guarantor
under applicable federal and state laws relating to the insolvency of debtors
(after giving effect to the right of contribution established in
Section 10.2).

       

      (c)           Each
Guarantor agrees that the Post-Petition Obligations may at any time and from
time to time exceed the amount of the liability of such Guarantor hereunder
without impairing the guarantee contained in this Section 10 or affecting
the rights and remedies of the DIP Agent or any Lender hereunder.

       

      (d)           The
guarantee contained in this Section 10 shall remain in full force and
effect until all the Post-Petition Obligations and the obligations of each
Guarantor under the guarantee contained in this Section 10 shall have been
satisfied by payment in full, no Letter of Credit shall be outstanding (other
than Letters of Credit that have been cash collateralized at 105%) and the DIP
Commitments shall be terminated, notwithstanding that from time to time during
the term of this Agreement the Borrower may be free from any Post-Petition
Obligations.

       

      (e)           No
payment made by the Borrower, any of the Guarantors, any other guarantor or any
other Person or received or collected by the DIP Agent or any Lender from the
Borrower, any of the Guarantors, any other guarantor or any other Person by
virtue of any action or proceeding or any set-off or appropriation or
application at any time or from time to time in reduction of or in payment of
the Post-Petition Obligations shall be deemed to modify, reduce, release or
otherwise affect the liability of any Guarantor hereunder which shall,
notwithstanding any such payment (other than any payment made by such Guarantor
in respect of the Post-Petition Obligations or any payment received or collected
from such Guarantor in respect of the Post-Petition Obligations), remain liable
for the Post-Petition Obligations up to the maximum liability of such Guarantor
hereunder until the Post-Petition Obligations are paid in full, no Letter of
Credit shall be outstanding and the DIP Commitments are terminated.

       

      Section
10.2                                Right of
Contribution.  Each Guarantor hereby agrees that to the extent
that a Guarantor shall have paid more than its proportionate share of any
payment made hereunder, such Guarantor shall be entitled to seek and receive
contribution from and against any other Guarantor hereunder which has not paid
its proportionate share of such payment.  Each Guarantor’s right of
contribution shall be subject to the terms and conditions of
Section 10.3.  The provisions of this Section 10.2 shall in
no respect limit the obligations and liabilities of any Guarantor to the DIP
Agent and the Lenders, and each Guarantor shall remain liable to the DIP Agent
and the Lenders for the full amount guaranteed by such Guarantor
hereunder.

       

      Section
10.3                                No
Subrogation.  Notwithstanding any payment made by any Guarantor
hereunder or any set-off or application of funds of any Guarantor by the DIP
Agent or any Lender, no Guarantor shall be entitled to be subrogated to any of
the rights of the DIP Agent or any Lender against the Borrower or any other
Guarantor or any collateral security or guarantee or right of offset held by the
DIP Agent or any Lender for the payment of the Post-Petition Obligations, nor
shall any Guarantor seek or be entitled to seek any contribution or
reimbursement from the Borrower or any other Guarantor in respect of payments
made by such Guarantor hereunder, until all amounts owing to the DIP Agent and
the Lenders by the Borrower on account of the Post-Petition Obligations are paid
in full, no Letter of Credit shall be outstanding and the DIP Commitments are
terminated.  If any amount shall be paid to any Guarantor on account
of such subrogation rights at any time when all of the Post-Petition Obligations
shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be held by such Guarantor in
trust for the DIP Agent and the Lenders, segregated from other funds of such
Guarantor, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by such Guarantor, be turned over
to the DIP Agent in the exact form received by such Guarantor (duly indorsed by
such Guarantor to the DIP Agent, if required), to be applied against the
Post-Petition Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in such order as this
Agreement shall prescribe.

       

      Section
10.4                                Amendments, Etc. with Respect to the
Post-Petition Obligations.  Each Guarantor shall remain
obligated hereunder notwithstanding that, without any reservation of rights
against any Guarantor and without notice to or further assent by any Guarantor,
any demand for payment of any of the Post-Petition Obligations made by the DIP
Agent or any Lender may be rescinded by the DIP Agent or such Lender and any of
the Post-Petition Obligations continued, and the Post-Petition Obligations, or
the liability of any other Person upon or for any part thereof, or any
collateral security or guarantee therefor or right of offset with respect
thereto, may, from time to time, in whole or in part, be renewed, extended,
amended, modified, accelerated, compromised, waived, surrendered or released by
the DIP Agent or any Lender, and this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and
any other documents executed and delivered in connection therewith may be
amended, modified, supplemented or terminated, in whole or in part, as the DIP
Agent (or the Required Lenders or all Lenders, as the case may be) may deem
advisable from time to time, and any collateral security, guarantee or right of
offset at any time held by the DIP Agent or any Lender for the payment of the
Post-Petition Obligations may be sold, exchanged, waived, surrendered or
released.  Neither the DIP Agent nor any Lender shall as a condition
to any Guarantor’s liability hereunder have any obligation to protect, secure,
perfect or insure any Lien at any time held by it as security for the
Post-Petition Obligations or for the guarantee contained in this Section 10
or any property subject thereto.

       

      Section
10.5                                Guarantee Absolute and
Unconditional.  Each Guarantor waives any and all notice of the
creation, renewal, extension or accrual of any of the Post-Petition Obligations
and notice of or proof of reliance by the DIP Agent or any Lender upon the
guarantee contained in this Section 10 or acceptance of the guarantee
contained in this Section 10; the Post-Petition Obligations, and any of
them, shall conclusively be deemed to have been created, contracted or incurred,
or renewed, extended, amended or waived, in reliance upon the guarantee
contained in this Section 10; and all dealings between the Borrower and any
of the Guarantors, on the one hand, and the DIP Agent and the Lenders, on the
other hand, likewise shall be conclusively presumed to have been had or
consummated in reliance upon the guarantee contained in this
Section 10.  Each Guarantor waives diligence, presentment,
protest, demand for payment and notice of default or nonpayment to or upon the
Borrower or any of the Guarantors with respect to the Post-Petition
Obligations.  Each Guarantor understands and agrees that the guarantee
contained in this Section 10 shall be construed as a continuing, absolute
and unconditional guarantee of payment without regard to (a) the validity
or enforceability of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, any of the
Post-Petition Obligations or any other collateral security therefor or guarantee
or right of offset with respect thereto at any time or from time to time held by
the DIP Agent or any Lender, (b) any defense, set-off or counterclaim
(other than a defense of payment or performance) which may at any time be
available to or be asserted by the Borrower or any other Person against the DIP
Agent or any Lender, or (c) any other circumstance whatsoever (with or without
notice to or knowledge of the Borrower or such Guarantor) which constitutes, or
might be construed to constitute, an equitable or legal discharge of the
Borrower for the Post-Petition Obligations, or of such Guarantor under the
guarantee contained in this Section 10, in bankruptcy or in any other
instance (other than a defense of payment or performance).  When
making any demand hereunder or otherwise pursuing its rights and remedies
hereunder against any Guarantor, the DIP Agent or any Lender may, but shall be
under no obligation to, make a similar demand on or otherwise pursue such rights
and remedies as it may have against the Borrower, any other Guarantor or any
other Person or against any collateral security or guarantee for the
Post-Petition Obligations or any right of offset with respect thereto, and any
failure by the DIP Agent or any Lender to make any such demand, to pursue such
other rights or remedies or to collect any payments from the Borrower, any other
Guarantor or any other Person or to realize upon any such collateral security or
guarantee or to exercise any such right of offset, or any release of the
Borrower, any other Guarantor or any other Person or any such collateral
security, guarantee or right of offset, shall not relieve any Guarantor of any
obligation or liability hereunder, and shall not impair or affect the rights and
remedies, whether express, implied or available as a matter of law, of the DIP
Agent or any Lender against any Guarantor.  For the purposes hereof
“demand” shall include the commencement and continuance of any legal
proceedings.

       

      Section
10.6                                Reinstatement.  The
guarantee contained in this Section 10 shall continue to be effective, or
be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part thereof,
of any of the Post-Petition Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be
restored or returned by the DIP Agent or any Lender upon the insolvency,
bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization of the Borrower or any
Guarantor, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a receiver, intervenor
or conservator of, or trustee or similar officer for, the Borrower or any
Guarantor or any substantial part of its Property, or otherwise, all as though
such payments had not been made.

       

      Section
10.7                                Payments.  Each
Guarantor hereby guarantees that payments hereunder will be paid to the DIP
Agent without set-off or counterclaim in Dollars at the office of the DIP Agent
specified in this Agreement.

       

      Section
10.8                                Release of
Guaranties.  Each Lender and L/C Issuer hereby agrees that in
the event all of the stock (or other equity interests) of a Guarantor is sold,
transferred, or otherwise disposed of in accordance with the terms and
conditions of this Agreement (including a sale, transfer, or disposition
permitted by the terms of Section 8.10 hereof, if any, or which has
otherwise been consented to in accordance with Section 12.13 hereof) to a
party other than the Borrower or a Subsidiary, the DIP Agent will release the
Guaranty of such Guarantor concurrently with such sale, transfer or other
disposition.

       

      Section
11.                                The
DIP Agent.

       

      Section
11.1                                Appointment and Authorization of DIP
Agent.  Each Lender and the L/C Issuer hereby appoints
Bank of Montreal as the DIP Agent under the Loan Documents and hereby authorizes
the DIP Agent to take such action as DIP Agent on its behalf and to exercise
such powers under the Loan Documents as are delegated to the DIP Agent by the
terms thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental
thereto.  The Lenders and L/C Issuer expressly agree that the DIP
Agent is not acting as a fiduciary of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer in
respect of the Loan Documents, the Borrower or otherwise, and nothing herein or
in any of the other Loan Documents shall result in any duties or obligations on
the DIP Agent or any of the Lenders or L/C Issuer except as expressly set
forth herein.

       

      Section
11.2                                DIP Agent and its
Affiliates.  The DIP Agent shall have the same rights and
powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as any other Lender and
may exercise or refrain from exercising such rights and power as though it were
not the DIP Agent (except any action provided by the Loan Documents to be taken
by the DIP Agent), and the DIP Agent and its affiliates may accept deposits
from, lend money to, and generally engage in any kind of business with the
Borrower or any Affiliate of the Borrower as if it were not the DIP Agent under
the Loan Documents.  The term “Lender” as used herein and in
all other Loan Documents, unless the context otherwise clearly requires,
includes the DIP Agent in its individual capacity as a Lender (if
applicable).

       

      Section
11.3                                Action by DIP
Agent.  If the DIP Agent receives from the Borrower a written
notice of an Event of Default pursuant to Section 8.5 hereof, the DIP Agent
shall promptly give each of the Lenders and L/C Issuer written notice
thereof.  The obligations of the DIP Agent under the Loan Documents
are only those expressly set forth therein.  Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the DIP Agent shall not be required to take any
action hereunder with respect to any Default or Event of Default, except as
expressly provided in Section 9.2.  Upon the occurrence of an
Event of Default, the DIP Agent shall take such action to enforce its Lien on
the Collateral and to preserve and protect the Collateral as may be directed by
the Required Lenders.  Unless and until the Required Lenders give such
direction, the DIP Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take or refrain
from taking such actions as it deems appropriate and in the best interest of all
the Lenders and L/C Issuer.  In no event, however, shall the DIP
Agent be required to take any action in violation of applicable law or of any
provision of any Loan Document, and the DIP Agent shall in all cases be fully
justified in failing or refusing to act hereunder or under any other Loan
Document unless it first receives any further assurances of its indemnification
from the Lenders that it may require, including prepayment of any related
expenses and any other protection it requires against any and all costs,
expense, and liability which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or
continuing to take any such action.  The DIP Agent shall be entitled
to assume that no Default or Event of Default exists unless notified in writing
to the contrary by a Lender, the L/C Issuer, or the Borrower.  In
all cases in which the Loan Documents do not require the DIP Agent to take
specific action, the DIP Agent shall be fully justified in using its discretion
in failing to take or in taking any action thereunder.  Any
instructions of the Required Lenders, or of any other group of Lenders called
for under the specific provisions of the Loan Documents, shall be binding upon
all the Lenders and the holders of the Post-Petition Obligations.

       

      Section
11.4                                Consultation with
Experts.  The DIP Agent may consult with legal counsel,
independent public accountants, and other experts selected by it and shall not
be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by it in good faith in
accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts.

       

      Section
11.5                                Liability of DIP Agent; Credit
Decision.  Neither the DIP Agent nor any of its directors,
officers, agents, employees, attorneys or financial advisors shall be liable for
any action taken or not taken by it in connection with the Loan
Documents:  (i) with the consent or at the request of the
Required Lenders or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or
willful misconduct.  Neither the DIP Agent nor any of its directors,
officers, agents, employees, attorneys or financial advisors shall be
responsible for or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into or
verify:  (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in
connection with this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any Credit Event;
(ii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants or agreements of
the Borrower or any Subsidiary contained herein or in any other Loan Document;
(iii) the satisfaction of any condition specified in Section 7 hereof,
except receipt of items required to be delivered to the DIP Agent; or
(iv) the validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability, perfection,
value, worth or collectibility hereof or of any other Loan Document or of any
other documents or writing furnished in connection with any Loan Document or of
any Collateral; and the DIP Agent makes no representation of any kind or
character with respect to any such matter mentioned in this
sentence.  The DIP Agent may execute any of its duties under any of
the Loan Documents by or through employees, agents, and attorneys-in-fact and
shall not be answerable to the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, the Borrower, or
any other Person for the default or misconduct of any such agents or
attorneys-in-fact selected with reasonable care.  The DIP Agent shall
not incur any liability by acting in reliance upon any notice, consent,
certificate, other document or statement (whether written or oral) believed by
it to be genuine or to be sent by the proper party or parties.  In
particular and without limiting any of the foregoing, the DIP Agent shall have
no responsibility for confirming the accuracy of any compliance certificate or
other document or instrument received by it under the Loan
Documents.  The DIP Agent may treat the payee of any Obligation as the
holder thereof until written notice of transfer shall have been filed with the
DIP Agent signed by such payee in form satisfactory to the DIP
Agent.  Each Lender and L/C Issuer acknowledges that it has
independently and without reliance on the DIP Agent or any other Lender or
L/C Issuer, and based upon such information, investigations and inquiries
as it deems appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to extend
credit to the Borrower in the manner set forth in the Loan
Documents.  It shall be the responsibility of each Lender and
L/C Issuer to keep itself informed as to the creditworthiness of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries, and the DIP Agent shall have no liability to any
Lender or L/C Issuer with respect thereto.

       

      Section
11.6                                Indemnity.  The
Lenders shall ratably, in accordance with their respective DIP Percentages,
indemnify and hold the DIP Agent, and its directors, officers, employees,
agents, representatives, attorneys and financial advisors harmless from and
against any liabilities, losses, costs or expenses suffered or incurred by it
under any Loan Document or in connection with the transactions contemplated
thereby, regardless of when asserted or arising, except to the extent they are
promptly reimbursed for the same by the Borrower and except to the extent that
any event giving rise to a claim was caused by the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of the party seeking to be indemnified.  The obligations of
the Lenders under this Section shall survive termination of this
Agreement.  The DIP Agent shall be entitled to offset amounts received
for the account of a Lender under this Agreement against unpaid amounts due from
such Lender to the DIP Agent hereunder (whether as fundings of participations,
indemnities or otherwise), but shall not be entitled to offset against amounts
owed to the DIP Agent by any Lender arising outside of this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents.

       

      Section
11.7                                Resignation of DIP Agent and
Successor DIP Agent.  The DIP Agent may resign at any time by
giving written notice thereof to the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, and the
Borrower.  Upon any such resignation of the DIP Agent, the Required
Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor DIP Agent.  If no
successor DIP Agent shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders, and
shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days after the retiring DIP
Agent’s giving of notice of resignation then the retiring DIP Agent may, on
behalf of the Lenders, appoint a successor DIP Agent, which may be any Lender
hereunder or any commercial bank, or an Affiliate of a commercial bank, having
an office in the United States of America and having a combined capital and
surplus of at least $200,000,000.  Upon the acceptance of its
appointment as the DIP Agent hereunder, such successor DIP Agent shall thereupon
succeed to and become vested with all the rights and duties of the retiring DIP
Agent under the Loan Documents, and the retiring DIP Agent shall be discharged
from its duties and obligations thereunder.  After any retiring DIP
Agent’s resignation hereunder as DIP Agent, the provisions of this
Section 11 and all protective provisions of the other Loan Documents shall
inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while
it was DIP Agent, but no successor DIP Agent shall in any event be liable or
responsible for any actions of its predecessor.  If the DIP Agent
resigns and no successor is appointed, the rights and obligations of such DIP
Agent shall be automatically assumed by the Required Lenders and (i) the
Borrower shall be directed to make all payments due each Lender and
L/C Issuer hereunder directly to such Lender or L/C Issuer and
(ii) the DIP Agent’s rights in the Collateral shall be assigned without
representation, recourse or warranty to the Lenders and L/C Issuer as their
interests may appear.

       

      Section
11.8                                L/C Issuer and Swing Line
Lender.  The L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Lenders
with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated
therewith, and the Swing Line Lender shall act on behalf of the Lenders with
respect to the Swing Loans made hereunder.  The L/C Issuer and
the Swing Line Lender shall each have all of the benefits and immunities
(i) provided to the DIP Agent in this Section 11 with respect to any
acts taken or omissions suffered by the L/C Issuer in connection with
Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and the
Applications pertaining to such Letters of Credit or by the Swing Line Lender in
connection with Swing Loans made or to be made hereunder as fully as if the term
“DIP Agent,” as used in
this Section 11, included the L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender
with respect to such acts or omissions and (ii) as additionally provided in
this Agreement with respect to such L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as
applicable.

       

      Section
11.9                                Authorization to Release or
Subordinate or Limit Liens and to Release Guaranties.  The DIP
Agent is hereby irrevocably authorized by each of the Lenders and the
L/C Issuer to (a) release any Lien covering any Collateral that is
sold, transferred, or otherwise disposed of in accordance with the terms and
conditions of this Agreement and the relevant Collateral Documents (including a
sale, transfer, or disposition permitted by the terms of Section 8.10
hereof or which has otherwise been consented to in accordance with
Section 12.13 hereof), (b) release or subordinate any Lien on
Collateral consisting of goods financed with purchase money indebtedness or
under a Capital Lease to the extent such purchase money indebtedness or
Capitalized Lease Obligation, and the Lien securing the same, are permitted by
Sections 8.7(b) and 8.8(d), (m), (n) and (o) hereof, (c) reduce or
limit the amount of the indebtedness secured by any particular item of
Collateral to an amount not less than the estimated value thereof to the extent
necessary to reduce mortgage registry, filing and similar tax, (d) release
Liens on the Collateral following termination or expiration of the DIP
Commitments and payment in full in cash of the Post-Petition Obligations and the
cancellation, expiration or cash-collateralization as provided herein of all
Letters of Credit outstanding hereunder, and (e) release a Guarantor of its
obligations under a Guaranty if all of the stock (or other equity interests) of
such Guarantor is sold, transferred, or otherwise disposed of in accordance with
the terms and conditions of this Agreement (including a sale, transfer, or
disposition permitted by the terms of Section 8.10 hereof, if any, or which
has otherwise been consented to in accordance with Section 12.13 hereof) to
a party other than the Borrower or a Subsidiary.

       

      Section
11.10                                Authorization to Enter into, and
Enforcement of, the Collateral Documents.  The DIP Agent is
hereby irrevocably authorized by each of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer to
execute and deliver the Collateral Documents on behalf of each of the Lenders
and their Affiliates and the L/C Issuer and to take such action and
exercise such powers under the Collateral Documents as the DIP Agent considers
appropriate, provided the DIP Agent shall not amend the Collateral Documents
unless such amendment is agreed to in writing by the Required
Lenders.  Each Lender and L/C Issuer acknowledges and agrees that
it will be bound by the terms and conditions of the Collateral Documents upon
the execution and delivery thereof by the DIP Agent.  Except as
otherwise specifically provided for herein, no Lender (or its Affiliates) or
L/C Issuer, other than the DIP Agent, shall have the right to institute any
suit, action or proceeding in equity or at law for the foreclosure or other
realization upon any Collateral or for the execution of any trust or power in
respect of the Collateral or for the appointment of a receiver or for the
enforcement of any other remedy under the Collateral Documents; it being
understood and intended that no one or more of the Lenders (or their Affiliates)
or L/C Issuer shall have any right in any manner whatsoever to affect,
disturb or prejudice the Lien of the DIP Agent (or any security trustee
therefor) under the Collateral Documents by its or their action or to enforce
any right thereunder, and that all proceedings at law or in equity shall be
instituted, had, and maintained by the DIP Agent (or its security trustee) in
the manner provided for in the relevant Collateral Documents for the benefit of
the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, and their Affiliates.

       

      Section
12.                                Miscellaneous.

       

      Section
12.1                                Withholding
Taxes.  (a) Payments Free of
Withholding.  Except as otherwise required by law and subject to
Section 12.1(b) hereof, each payment by the Borrower and the Guarantors
under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents shall be made without
withholding for or on account of any present or future taxes (other than overall
net income taxes on the recipient) imposed by or within the jurisdiction in
which the Borrower or such Guarantor is domiciled, any jurisdiction from which
the Borrower or such Guarantor makes any payment, or (in each case) any
political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein.  If any
such withholding is so required, the Borrower or such Guarantor shall make the
withholding, pay the amount withheld to the appropriate governmental authority
before penalties attach thereto or interest accrues thereon, and forthwith pay
such additional amount as may be necessary to ensure that the net amount
actually received by each Lender, the L/C Issuer, and the DIP Agent free
and clear of such taxes (including such taxes on such additional amount) is
equal to the amount which that Lender, L/C Issuer, or the DIP Agent (as the
case may be) would have received had such withholding not been
made.  If the DIP Agent, the L/C Issuer, or any Lender pays any
amount in respect of any such taxes, penalties or interest, the Borrower or such
Guarantor shall reimburse the DIP Agent, the L/C Issuer or such Lender for
that payment on demand in the currency in which such payment was
made.  If the Borrower or such Guarantor pays any such taxes,
penalties or interest, it shall deliver official tax receipts evidencing that
payment or certified copies thereof to the Lender, the L/C Issuer or DIP
Agent on whose account such withholding was made (with a copy to the DIP Agent
if not the recipient of the original) on or before the thirtieth day after
payment.

       

      (b)           U.S. Withholding Tax
Exemptions.  Each Lender or L/C Issuer that is not a
United States person (as such term is defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the
Code) shall submit to the Borrower and the DIP Agent on or before the date the
initial Credit Event is made hereunder or, if later, the date such financial
institution becomes a Lender or L/C Issuer hereunder, two duly completed
and signed copies of (i) either Form W-8 BEN (relating to such Lender
or L/C Issuer and entitling it to a complete exemption from withholding
under the Code on all amounts to be received by such Lender or L/C Issuer,
including fees, pursuant to the Loan Documents and the Post-Petition
Obligations) or Form W-8 ECI (relating to all amounts to be received by
such Lender or L/C Issuer, including fees, pursuant to the Loan Documents
and the Post-Petition Obligations) of the United States Internal Revenue Service
or (ii) solely if such Lender is claiming exemption from United States
withholding tax under Section 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code with respect to
payments of “portfolio interest,” a Form W-8 BEN, or any successor form
prescribed by the Internal Revenue Service, and a certificate representing that
such Lender is not a bank for purposes of Section 881(c) of the Code, is
not a 10 percent shareholder (within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of
the Code) of the Borrower and is not a controlled foreign corporation related to
the Borrower (within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4) of the
Code).  Thereafter and from time to time, each Lender and
L/C Issuer shall submit to the Borrower and the DIP Agent such additional
duly completed and signed copies of one or the other of such Forms (or such
successor forms as shall be adopted from time to time by the relevant
United States taxing authorities) and such other certificates as may be
(i) requested by the Borrower in a written notice, directly or through the
DIP Agent, to such Lender or L/C Issuer and (ii) required under
then-current United States law or regulations to avoid or reduce United States
withholding taxes on payments in respect of all amounts to be received by such
Lender or L/C Issuer, including fees, pursuant to the Loan Documents or the
Post-Petition Obligations.  Upon the request of the Borrower or the
DIP Agent, each Lender and L/C Issuer that is a United States person (as
such term is defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) shall submit to
the Borrower and the DIP Agent a certificate to the effect that it is such a
United States person.

       

      (c)           Inability of Lender to Submit
Forms.  If any Lender or L/C Issuer determines, as a
result of any change in applicable law, regulation or treaty, or in any official
application or interpretation thereof, that it is unable to submit to the
Borrower or the DIP Agent any form or certificate that such Lender or
L/C Issuer is obligated to submit pursuant to subsection (b) of this
Section 12.1 or that such Lender or L/C Issuer is required to withdraw
or cancel any such form or certificate previously submitted or any such form or
certificate otherwise becomes ineffective or inaccurate, such Lender or
L/C Issuer shall promptly notify the Borrower and DIP Agent of such fact
and the Lender or L/C Issuer shall to that extent not be obligated to
provide any such form or certificate and will be entitled to withdraw or cancel
any affected form or certificate, as applicable.

       

      Section
12.2                                No Waiver, Cumulative
Remedies.  No delay or failure on the part of the DIP Agent,
the L/C Issuer, or any Lender, or on the part of the holder or holders of
any of the Post-Petition Obligations, in the exercise of any power or right
under any Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof or as an acquiescence
in any default, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any power or right
preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other
power or right.  The rights and remedies hereunder of the DIP Agent,
the L/C Issuer, the Lenders, and of the holder or holders of any of the
Post-Petition Obligations are cumulative to, and not exclusive of, any rights or
remedies which any of them would otherwise have.

       

      Section
12.3                                Non-Business
Days.  If any payment hereunder becomes due and payable on a
day which is not a Business Day, the due date of such payment shall be extended
to the next succeeding Business Day on which date such payment shall be due and
payable.  In the case of any payment of principal falling due on a day
which is not a Business Day, interest on such principal amount shall continue to
accrue during such extension at the rate per annum then in effect, which accrued
amount shall be due and payable on the next scheduled date for the payment of
interest.

       

      Section
12.4                                Documentary
Taxes.  The Borrower agrees to pay on demand any documentary,
stamp or similar taxes payable in respect of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document, including interest and penalties, in the event any such taxes are
assessed, irrespective of when such assessment is made and whether or not any
credit is then in use or available hereunder.

       

      Section
12.5                                Survival of
Representations.  All representations and warranties made
herein or in any other Loan Document or in certificates given pursuant hereto or
thereto shall survive the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents, and shall continue in full force and effect with respect to the
date as of which they were made as long as any credit is in use or available
hereunder.

       

      Section
12.6                                Survival of
Indemnities.  All indemnities and other provisions relative to
reimbursement to the Lenders and L/C Issuer of amounts sufficient to
protect the yield of the Lenders and L/C Issuer with respect to the Loans
and Letters of Credit, including, but not limited to, Section 12.15 hereof,
shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and
the payment of the Post-Petition Obligations.

       

      Section
12.7                                Sharing of
Set-Off.  Each Lender agrees with each other Lender a party
hereto that if such Lender shall receive and retain any payment, whether by
set-off or application of deposit balances or otherwise, on any of the Loans or
Reimbursement Obligations in excess of its ratable share of payments on all such
Post-Petition Obligations then outstanding to the Lenders, then such Lender
shall purchase for cash at face value, but without recourse, ratably from each
of the other Lenders such amount of the Loans or Reimbursement Obligations, or
participations therein, held by each such other Lenders (or interest therein) as
shall be necessary to cause such Lender to share such excess payment ratably
with all the other Lenders; provided, however, that if any such purchase is made
by any Lender, and if such excess payment or part thereof is thereafter
recovered from such purchasing Lender, the related purchases from the other
Lenders shall be rescinded ratably and the purchase price restored as to the
portion of such excess payment so recovered, but without
interest.  For purposes of this Section, amounts owed to or recovered
by the L/C Issuer in connection with Reimbursement Obligations in which
Lenders have been required to fund their participation shall be treated as
amounts owed to or recovered by the L/C Issuer as a Lender
hereunder.

       

      Section
12.8                                Notices.  Except as
otherwise specified herein, all notices hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents shall be in writing (including, without limitation, notice by
telecopy) and shall be given to the relevant party at its address or telecopier
number set forth below, or such other address or telecopier number as such party
may hereafter specify by notice to the DIP Agent and the Borrower given by
courier, by United States certified or registered mail, by telecopy or by other
telecommunication device capable of creating a written record of such notice and
its receipt.  Each Guarantor agrees that any notice to be given to it
pursuant to this Agreement shall be effective as to such Guarantor if given to
the Borrower.  Notices under the Loan Documents to any Lender shall be
addressed to its address or telecopier number set forth on its Administrative
Questionnaire; and notices under the Loan Documents to the Borrower, any
Guarantor, the DIP Agent or L/C Issuer shall be addressed to its respective
address or telecopier number set forth below:

      

       

      
        	
                to
      the Borrower or any Guarantor:

                 

                Pilgrim’s
      Pride Corporation

                4845
      US Highway 271 N

                Pittsburg,
      Texas 75686

                Attention:Chief
      Financial Officer

                Telephone:903-434-1505

                Telecopy:972-290-8950

              	
                to
      the DIP Agent and L/C Issuer :

                 

                Bank
      of Montreal

                115
      South LaSalle Street

                Chicago,
      Illinois  60603

                Attention:Barry
      Stratton

                Telephone:(312)
      461-7910

                Telecopy:(312)
      461-7958

              
	 
      	 
      
	
                with
      copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

              	 
      
	 
      	 
      
	
                Weil,
      Gotshal & Manges LLP

                200
      Crescent Court, Suite 300

                Dallas,
      Texas 75201-6950

                Attention:Angela
      L. Fontana

                Telephone:214-746-7895

                Telecopy:214-746-7777

              	 
      
	 
      	 
      
	
                with
      copy to (which shall not constitute notice):

              	 
      
	 
      	 
      
	
                Baker
      & McKenzie LLP

                2300
      Trammell Crow Center

                2001
      Ross Avenue

                Dallas,
      Texas 75201

                Attention:Crews
      Lott

                Telephone:(214)
      978-3042

                Telecopy:(214)
      978-3099

              	 
      

      

       

      Each such
notice, request or other communication shall be effective (i) if given by
telecopier, when such telecopy is transmitted to the telecopier number specified
in this Section or in the relevant Administrative Questionnaire and a
confirmation of such telecopy has been received by the sender, (ii) if
given by mail, 5 days after such communication is deposited in the mail,
certified or registered with return receipt requested, addressed as aforesaid or
(iii) if given by any other means, when delivered at the addresses
specified in this Section or in the relevant Administrative Questionnaire;
provided that any notice given pursuant to Section 1 hereof shall be
effective only upon receipt.

       

      Section
12.9                                Counterparts.  This
Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, and by the different
parties hereto on separate counterpart signature pages, and all such
counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same
instrument.  Delivery of executed counterparts of this Agreement by
telecopy or other electronic transmission shall be effective as an
original.

       

      Section
12.10                                Successors and
Assigns.  This Agreement shall be binding upon the Borrower,
Guarantors, the DIP Agent and the Lenders and their respective successors and
assigns, and shall inure to the benefit of the Borrower, Guarantors, DIP Agent,
the L/C Issuer, and each of the Lenders, and the benefit of their
respective successors and assigns, including any subsequent holder of any of the
Post-Petition Obligations.  The Borrower and the Guarantors may not
assign any of their rights or obligations under any Loan Document without the
written consent of all of the Lenders and, with respect to any Letter of Credit
or the Application therefor, the L/C Issuer.

       

      Section
12.11                                Participants.  Each
Lender shall have the right at its own cost to grant participations (to be
evidenced by one or more agreements or certificates of participation) in the
Loans made and Reimbursement Obligations and/or DIP Commitments held by such
Lender at any time and from time to time to one or more other Persons; provided
that no such participation shall relieve any Lender of any of its obligations
under this Agreement, and, provided, further that no such participant shall have
any rights under this Agreement except as provided in this Section, and the DIP
Agent shall have no obligation or responsibility to such
participant.  Any agreement pursuant to which such
participation  is granted shall provide that the granting Lender shall
retain the sole right and responsibility to enforce the obligations of the
Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents including, without
limitation, the right to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any
provision of the Loan Documents, except that such agreement may provide that
such Lender will not agree to any modification, amendment or waiver of the Loan
Documents that would reduce the amount of or postpone any fixed date for payment
of any Obligation in which such participant has an interest.  Any
party to which such a participation has been granted shall have the benefits of
Section 1.11 and Section 10.3 hereof.

       

      Section
12.12                                Assignments.  (a) Any
Lender may at any time assign to one or more Eligible Assignees all or a portion
of such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a
portion of its DIP Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it); provided
that any such assignment shall be subject to the following
conditions:

       

      (i)           Minimum
Amounts.  (A) In the case of an assignment of the entire
remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s DIP Commitment and the Loans and
participation interest in L/C Obligations at the time owing to it or in the case
of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund, no
minimum amount need be assigned; and (B) in any case not described in
subsection (a)(i)(A) of this Section, the aggregate amount of the DIP Commitment
(which for this purpose includes Loans and participation interest in L/C
Obligations outstanding thereunder) or, if the applicable DIP Commitment is not
then in effect, the principal outstanding balance of the Loans and participation
interest in L/C Obligations of the assigning Lender subject to each such
assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Acceptance with respect
to such assignment is delivered to the DIP Agent or, if “Effective Date” is specified
in the Assignment and Acceptance, as of the Effective Date) shall not be less
than $5,000,000, in the case of any assignment, unless the DIP Agent otherwise
consents (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed);

       

      (ii)           Proportionate
Amounts.  Each partial assignment shall be made as an
assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lender’s rights and
obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Loan or the DIP Commitment
assigned.

       

      (iii)           Required
Consents.  No consent shall be required for any assignment
except to the extent required by Section 12.12(a)(i)(B) and, in
addition:

       

      (a)           the
consent of the DIP Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or
delayed) shall be required for assignments to a Person that is not a Lender, an
Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to a Lender;

      (b)           the
consent of the L/C Issuer (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or
delayed) shall be required for any assignment that increases the obligation of
the assignee to participate in exposure under one or more Letters of Credit
(whether or not then outstanding); and

      (c)           the
consent of the Swing Line Lender (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld
or delayed) shall be required for any assignment that increases the obligation
of the assignee to participate in exposure under one or more Swing Loans
(whether or not then outstanding).

       

      (iv)           Assignment and
Acceptance.                                                      The
parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the DIP Agent an
Assignment and Acceptance, together with a processing and recordation fee of
$3,500, and the assignee, if it is not a Lender, shall deliver to the DIP Agent
an Administrative Questionnaire.

       

      (v)           No Assignment to Borrower or
Affiliates. No such assignment shall be made to the Borrower or any of
its Affiliates or Subsidiaries.

       

      (vi)           No Assignment to Natural
Persons.  No such assignment shall be made to a natural
person.

       

      Subject
to acceptance and recording thereof by the DIP Agent pursuant to
Section 12.12(b) hereof, from and after the effective date specified in
each Assignment and Acceptance, the assignee thereunder shall be a party to this
Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and
Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement,
and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest
assigned by such Assignment and Acceptance, be released from its obligations
under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Acceptance covering
all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such
Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to
the benefits of Sections 12.6 and 12.15 with respect to facts and
circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such
assignment.  Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or
obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this
Section shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such
Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with
Section 12.11 hereof.

       

       

      (b)           Register.  The DIP
Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrower, shall
maintain at one of its offices in Chicago, Illinois, a copy of each Assignment
and Acceptance delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names
and addresses of the Lenders, and the DIP Commitments of, and principal amounts
of the Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to
time (the “Register”).  The
entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrower, the DIP Agent,
and the Lenders may treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register
pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this
Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary.  The Register shall
be available for inspection by the Borrower and any Lender, at any reasonable
time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

       

      (c)           Any
Lender may at any time pledge or grant a security interest in all or any portion
of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such Lender,
including any such pledge or grant to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this
Section shall not apply to any such pledge or grant of a security interest;
provided that no such pledge or grant of a security interest shall release a
Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or
secured party for such Lender as a party hereto; provided further, however, the
right of any such pledgee or grantee (other than any Federal Reserve Bank) to
further transfer all or any portion of the rights pledged or granted to it,
whether by means of foreclosure or otherwise, shall be at all times subject to
the terms of this Agreement.

       

      (d)Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary herein, if at any time the Swing Line Lender assigns
all of its DIP Commitments and DIP Loans pursuant to subsection (a) above, the
Swing Line Lender may terminate the Swing Line.  In the event of such
termination of the Swing Line, the Borrower shall be entitled to appoint another
Lender to act as the successor Swing Line Lender hereunder (with such Lender’s
consent); provided,
however, that the failure of the Borrower to appoint a successor shall
not affect the resignation of the Swing Line Lender.  If the Swing
Line Lender terminates the Swing Line, it shall retain all of the rights of the
Swing Line Lender provided hereunder with respect to Swing Loans made by it and
outstanding as of the effective date of such termination, including the right to
require Lenders to make DIP Loans or fund participations in outstanding Swing
Loans pursuant to Section 1.6 hereof.

       

      Section
12.13                                Amendments.  Any
provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents may be amended or waived
if, but only if, such amendment or waiver is in writing and is signed by (a) the
Borrower, (b) the Required Lenders, and (c) if the rights or duties of the
DIP Agent, the L/C Issuer, or the Swing Line Lender are affected thereby,
the DIP Agent, the L/C Issuer, or the Swing Line Lender, as applicable;
provided that:

       

      (i)           no
amendment or waiver pursuant to this Section 12.13 shall (A) increase
any DIP Commitment of any Lender without the consent of such Lender or
(B) reduce the amount of or postpone the date for any scheduled payment of
any principal of or interest on any Loan or of any Reimbursement Obligation or
of any fee payable hereunder without the consent of the Lender to which such
payment is owing or which has committed to make such Loan or Letter of Credit
(or participate therein) hereunder;

      (ii)           no
amendment or waiver pursuant to this Section 12.13 shall, unless signed by
each Lender, extend the Termination Date, change the definition of Required
Lenders, change the provisions of this Section 12.13, release all or
substantially all (in value) of the Guaranties or all or substantially all of
the Collateral (except as otherwise provided for in the Loan Documents), or
affect the number of Lenders required to take any action hereunder or under any
other Loan Document; and

      (iii)           no
amendment to Section 10 hereof shall be made without the consent of the
Guarantor(s) affected thereby.

       

      Section
12.14                                Headings.
Section headings used in this Agreement are for reference only and shall
not affect the construction of this Agreement.

       

      Section
12.15                                Costs and Expenses;
Indemnification.  (a) The Borrower agrees to pay all
reasonable costs and expenses of the DIP Agent, the Lenders, the Pre-Petition
BMO Agent and the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders in connection with the preparation,
negotiation, syndication, and administration of the Loan Documents, including,
without limitation, the reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel to the DIP
Agent, the Lenders, the Pre-Petition BMO Agent and the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders
in connection with the preparation and execution of the Loan Documents, and any
amendment, waiver or consent related thereto, whether or not the transactions
contemplated herein are consummated, together with any reasonable fees and
charges suffered or incurred by the DIP Agent, the Lenders, the Pre-Petition BMO
Agent and the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders in connection with reasonable diligence,
computer, duplication, consultation, travel, appraisal, periodic environmental
audits, fixed asset appraisals, collateral filing fees and lien
searches.  The Borrower agrees to pay to the DIP Agent, the
Pre-Petition BMO Agent, the L/C Issuer, each Lender, each Pre-Petition BMO
Lender and any other holder of any Post-Petition Obligations outstanding
hereunder, all costs and expenses reasonably incurred or paid by the DIP Agent,
the Pre-Petition BMO Agent, the L/C Issuer, such Lender, such Pre-Petition
BMO Lender or any such holder, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and
disbursements and court costs, in connection with any Default or Event of
Default hereunder or in connection with the enforcement of any of the Loan
Documents (including all such costs and expenses incurred in connection with any
proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code involving the Borrower or any Guarantor as
a debtor thereunder).  The Borrower shall pay all such reasonable
costs, fees and expenses when invoiced and at the Termination Date, to the
extent not previously invoiced.

       

      The
Borrower and each Guarantor further agrees to indemnify the DIP Agent, the
L/C Issuer, each Lender, and any security trustee therefor, and their
respective directors, officers, employees, agents, representative, financial
advisors, and consultants (each such Person being called an “Indemnitee”) against all
losses, claims, damages, penalties, judgments, liabilities and expenses
(including, without limitation, all reasonable out-of-pocket fees and
disbursements of counsel for any such Indemnitee and all reasonable
out-of-pocket expenses of litigation or preparation therefor, whether or not the
Indemnitee is a party thereto, or any settlement arrangement arising from or
relating to any such litigation) which any of them may pay or incur arising out
of or relating to any Loan Document or any of the transactions contemplated
thereby or the direct or indirect application or proposed application of the
proceeds of any Loan or Letter of Credit or the relationship between
(x) the DIP Agent, the L/C Issuer and/or the Lenders, (y) the DIP
Agent, the L/C Issuer and/or the Lenders and the Borrower, or (z) the DIP
Agent, the L/C Issuer and/or the Lenders and any of the Guarantors, in each
case, except to the extent as finally determined in a final decision of a court
of competent jurisdiction to result from the willful misconduct or gross
negligence of the party seeking indemnification.  The Borrower and
each Guarantor, upon demand by the DIP Agent, the L/C Issuer or a Lender at
any time, shall reimburse the DIP Agent, the L/C Issuer or such Lender for
any reasonable out-of-pocket legal or other expenses (including, without
limitation, all fees and disbursements of counsel for any such Indemnitee)
incurred in connection with investigating or defending against any of the
foregoing (including any settlement costs relating to the foregoing) except to
the extent as finally determined in a final decision of a court of competent
jurisdiction to result from the willful misconduct or gross negligence of the
party seeking indemnification.  Except as a result of willful
misconduct or gross negligence of any such Indemnitee, to the extent permitted
by applicable law, neither the Borrower nor any Guarantor shall assert, and each
such Person hereby waives, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of
liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed
to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result
of, this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any agreement or instrument
contemplated hereby or thereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby,
any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof.  The
obligations of the Borrower and each Guarantor under this Section shall
survive the termination of this Agreement.

       

       

      (b)           The
Borrower and each Guarantor unconditionally agrees to forever indemnify, defend
and hold harmless, and covenants not to sue for any claim for contribution
against, each Indemnitee for any damages, costs, loss or expense, including
without limitation, response, remedial or removal costs and all fees and
disbursements of counsel for any such Indemnitee, arising out of any of the
following:  (i) any presence, Release, threatened Release or disposal
of any hazardous or toxic substance or petroleum by the Borrower or any
Subsidiary or otherwise occurring on or with respect to its Property (whether
owned or leased), (ii) the operation or violation of any Environmental Law,
whether federal, state, or local, and any regulations promulgated thereunder, by
the Borrower or any Subsidiary or otherwise occurring on or with respect to its
Property (whether owned or leased), (iii) any claim for personal injury or
property damage in connection with the Borrower or any Subsidiary or otherwise
occurring on or with respect to its Property (whether owned or leased), and (iv)
the inaccuracy or breach of any environmental representation, warranty or
covenant by the Borrower or any Subsidiary made herein or in any other Loan
Document evidencing or securing any Post-Petition Obligations or setting forth
terms and conditions applicable thereto or otherwise relating thereto, except
for damages arising from the willful misconduct or gross negligence of the
relevant Indemnitee.  This indemnification shall survive the payment
and satisfaction of all Post-Petition Obligations and the termination of this
Agreement, and shall remain in force beyond the expiration of any applicable
statute of limitations and payment or satisfaction in full of any single claim
under this indemnification.  This indemnification shall be binding
upon the successors and assigns of the Borrower and shall inure to the benefit
of each Indemnitee and its successors and assigns.

       

      Section
12.16                                Set-off.  In
addition to any rights now or hereafter granted under the Loan Documents or
applicable law and not by way of limitation of any such rights, during the
existence of any Event of Default, each Lender, the L/C Issuer, each
subsequent holder of any Obligation, and each of their respective affiliates, is
hereby authorized by the Borrower and each Guarantor at any time or from time to
time, without notice to the Borrower, any Guarantor or to any other Person, any
such notice being hereby expressly waived, to set-off and to appropriate and to
apply any and all deposits (general or special, including, but not limited to,
indebtedness evidenced by certificates of deposit, whether matured or unmatured,
and in whatever currency denominated, but not including trust accounts) and any
other indebtedness at any time held or owing by that Lender, L/C Issuer,
subsequent holder, or affiliate, to or for the credit or the account of the
Borrower or such Guarantor, whether or not matured, against and on account of
the Post-Petition Obligations of the Borrower or such Guarantor to that Lender,
L/C Issuer, or subsequent holder under the Loan Documents, including, but
not limited to, all claims of any nature or description arising out of or
connected with the Loan Documents, irrespective of whether or not (a) that
Lender, L/C Issuer, or subsequent holder shall have made any demand
hereunder or (b) the principal of or the interest on the Loans and other
amounts due hereunder shall have become due and payable pursuant to
Section 9 and although said obligations and liabilities, or any of them,
may be contingent or unmatured.

       

      Section
12.17                                Entire
Agreement.  The Loan Documents constitute the entire
understanding of the parties thereto with respect to the subject matter thereof
and any prior agreements, whether written or oral, with respect thereto are
superseded hereby.

       

      Section
12.18                                Governing
Law.  This Agreement and the other Loan Documents (except as
otherwise specified therein), and the rights and duties of the parties hereto,
shall be construed and determined in accordance with the internal laws of the
State of Illinois except as otherwise governed by the Bankruptcy
Code.

       

      Section
12.19                                Severability of
Provisions.  Any provision of any Loan Document which is
unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective
to the extent of such unenforceability without invalidating the remaining
provisions hereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision
in any other jurisdiction.  All rights, remedies and powers provided
in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be exercised only to the
extent that the exercise thereof does not violate any applicable mandatory
provisions of law, and all the provisions of this Agreement and other Loan
Documents are intended to be subject to all applicable mandatory provisions of
law which may be controlling and to be limited to the extent necessary so that
they will not render this Agreement or the other Loan Documents invalid or
unenforceable.

       

      Section
12.20                                Excess
Interest.  Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary
contained herein or in any other Loan Document, no such provision shall require
the payment or permit the collection of any amount of interest in excess of the
maximum amount of interest permitted by applicable law to be charged for the use
or detention, or the forbearance in the collection, of all or any portion of the
Loans or other obligations outstanding under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document (“Excess
Interest”).  If any Excess Interest is provided for, or is
adjudicated to be provided for, herein or in any other Loan Document, then in
such event (a) the provisions of this Section shall govern and
control, (b) neither the Borrower nor any Guarantor or endorser shall be
obligated to pay any Excess Interest, (c) any Excess Interest that the DIP
Agent or any Lender may have received hereunder shall, at the option of the DIP
Agent, be (i) applied as a credit against the then outstanding principal
amount of Post-Petition Obligations hereunder and accrued and unpaid interest
thereon (not to exceed the maximum amount permitted by applicable law),
(ii) refunded to the Borrower, or (iii) any combination of the
foregoing, (d) the interest rate payable hereunder or under any other Loan
Document shall be automatically subject to reduction to the maximum lawful
contract rate allowed under applicable usury laws (the “Maximum Rate”), and this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be deemed to have been, and shall
be, reformed and modified to reflect such reduction in the relevant interest
rate, and (e) neither the Borrower nor any Guarantor or endorser shall have
any action against the DIP Agent or any Lender for any damages whatsoever
arising out of the payment or collection of any Excess
Interest.  Notwithstanding the foregoing, if for any period of time
interest on any of Borrower’s Post-Petition Obligations is calculated at the
Maximum Rate rather than the applicable rate under this Agreement, and
thereafter such applicable rate becomes less than the Maximum Rate, the rate of
interest payable on the Borrower’s Post-Petition Obligations shall remain at the
Maximum Rate until the Lenders have received the amount of interest which such
Lenders would have received during such period on the Borrower’s Post-Petition
Obligations had the rate of interest not been limited to the Maximum Rate during
such period.

       

      Section
12.21                                Construction.  The
parties acknowledge and agree that the Loan Documents shall not be construed
more favorably in favor of any party hereto based upon which party drafted the
same, it being acknowledged that all parties hereto contributed substantially to
the negotiation of the Loan Documents.  The provisions of this
Agreement relating to Subsidiaries shall only apply during such times as the
Borrower has one or more Subsidiaries.  Nothing contained herein shall
be deemed or construed to permit any act or omission which is prohibited by the
terms of any Collateral Document, the covenants and agreements contained herein
being in addition to and not in substitution for the covenants and agreements
contained in the Collateral Documents. In the event any provision of any
Collateral Document conflicts with the terms of this Agreement the terms of this
Agreement shall control.

       

      Section
12.22                                Lender’s and L/C Issuer’s
Obligations Several.  The obligations of the Lenders and
L/C Issuer hereunder are several and not joint.  Nothing
contained in this Agreement and no action taken by the Lenders or
L/C Issuer pursuant hereto shall be deemed to constitute the Lenders and
L/C Issuer a partnership, association, joint venture or other
entity.

       

      Section
12.23                                Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver
of Jury Trial.  Except as required by the Bankruptcy Code, the
Borrower and the Guarantors hereby submit to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of
the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois and of
any Illinois State court sitting in the City of Chicago for purposes of all
legal proceedings arising out of or relating to this Agreement, the other Loan
Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby.  The
Borrower and the Guarantors irrevocably waive, to the fullest extent permitted
by law, any objection which they may now or hereafter have to the laying of the
venue of any such proceeding brought in such a court and any claim that any such
proceeding brought in such a court has been brought in an inconvenient
forum.  The Borrower, the Guarantors, the DIP Agent, the
L/C Issuer and the Lenders hereby irrevocably waive any and all right to
trial by jury in any legal proceeding arising out of or relating to any Loan
Document or the transactions contemplated thereby.

       

      Section
12.24                                USA Patriot
Act.  Each Lender and L/C Issuer that is subject to the
requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into
law October 26, 2001)) (the “Act”) hereby notifies the
Borrower that pursuant to the requirements of the Act, it is required to obtain,
verify, and record information that identifies the Borrower, which information
includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information that will
allow such Lender or L/C Issuer to identify the Borrower in accordance with
the Act.

       

      Section
12.25                                No Modification; No Discharge;
Survival of Claims.  This Agreement, the credit extended
hereunder and the Loan Documents shall not be modified, altered or affected in
any manner by any plan of reorganization or any order of confirmation for any
Debtor of any other financing or extensions or incurring of indebtedness by any
Debtor pursuant to Section 364(c) of the Bankruptcy
Code.  Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each of the
Borrower and the Guarantors agrees that (i) its obligations hereunder shall
not be discharged by the entry of an order confirming a plan of reorganization
(and each of the Borrower and the Guarantors, pursuant to
Section 1141(d)(4) of the Bankruptcy Code, hereby waives any such
discharge) and (ii) the Superpriority Claim granted to the DIP Agent and
the Lenders pursuant to the Financing Order and described in Section 6.21
hereof and the Lien granted to the DIP Agent pursuant to this Agreement and the
Financing Order and described in Section 4.1 hereof shall not be affected
in any manner by the entry of an order confirming a plan of
reorganization.

       

      Section
12.26                                Pre-Petition BMO Loan
Documents.  Subject to the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code,
the Pre-Petition BMO Loan Documents shall remain in full force and effect, and
the execution of this Agreement by the DIP Agent and the Lenders, and the
execution of the other Loan Documents by those of the Debtors party thereto, and
the delivery to and acceptance thereof by the DIP Agent and the Lenders, do not
and shall not constitute a waiver of any provision of the Pre-Petition BMO Loan
Documents.

       

      Section
12.27                                Bankruptcy Code
Waivers.  In consideration of the credit extended hereunder, to
the extent not irreconcilably inconsistent with the provisions hereof or the
Financing Order, the Borrower and each Guarantor hereby agrees not to assert and
affirmatively waives any claim it otherwise might have under
Sections 506(c) and 553(b) of the Bankruptcy Code.

       

      Section
12.28                                Validation of
Liens.  As provided in the Financing Order, the Borrower and
each Guarantor approves and confirms the Pre-Petition BMO Collateral, and
acknowledges and agrees that the Pre-Petition BMO Agent and the Pre-Petition BMO
Lenders each hold valid and enforceable, nonavoidable, perfected and senior
Liens in and to the collateral more particularly set forth in the Pre-Petition
BMO Security Documents and as summarized in the Interim Financing
Order.

       

      Section
12.29                                Confidentiality.  Each
of the DIP Agent, the Lenders, and the L/C Issuer severally agrees to
maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that
Information may be disclosed (a) to its and its Affiliates’ directors,
officers, employees and agents, including accountants, legal counsel and other
advisors to the extent any such Person has a need to know such Information (it
being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will first be
informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep
such Information confidential in accordance with the terms hereof), provided,
that in any event, it shall be responsible for any breach of this undertaking by
any of its and its Affiliates’ directors, officers, employees and agents,
including accountants, legal counsel and other advisors, (b) to any other
party hereto, (c) upon the order of any court or administrative agency, (d)
upon the request or demand of any regulatory agency or authority (or as
otherwise required by law or regulation), (e) which has been publicly disclosed
other than as a result of a disclosure by the undersigned or its representatives
or affiliates in breach of this undertaking, (f) in connection with any
litigation to which the DIP Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender or their
respective Affiliates may be a party to the extent reasonably required, (g) to
the extent reasonably required in connection with the exercise of any remedy
under the Loan Documents, (h) to any actual or proposed participant or assignee
of all or part of its rights under the Loan Documents, subject to an agreement
containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, and
(i) with the prior written consent of the Borrower.  For purposes
of this Section, “Information” means all
information received from the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries or from any
other Person on behalf of the Borrower or any Subsidiary relating to the
Borrower or any Subsidiary or any of their respective businesses, other than
(i) information that was already known to or in possession of the receiving
party or any of its representatives or Affiliates prior to its disclosure to the
receiving party by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or their respective
representatives or advisors whether in connection with this Agreement or any
other agreement, (ii) information that is obtained by the receiving party
or any of its representatives or Affiliates from a third party who is not known
by the receiving party to be prohibited from disclosing the information to the
receiving party by a contractual, legal or fiduciary obligation to the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries; (iii) information that is or becomes publicly
available (other than as a result of disclosure by the receiving party or any of
its representatives or Affiliates in violation of this Section); or
(iv) information that is independently developed, discovered or arrived at
by the receiving party or any of its representatives or Affiliates without any
reference to the Information.  The obligations of each party contained
in this Section 12.29 shall continue for a period of 3 years after such
party ceases to be a party to this Agreement.

       

      Section
12.30                                Disclosure.  Each
of the DIP Agent, the L/C Issuer and each Lender may discuss the Borrower’s
business and financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries with the
Debtors and with any official committee of creditors, any unofficial
representative of unsecured creditors (provided that as to any confidential
matter or Information covered by a confidentiality agreement between the
Borrower and a Lender (including Section 12.29 of this Agreement) such
unofficial representative shall have entered into a confidentiality agreement
that is reasonably acceptable in form and substance to the Borrower and the
Guarantors), the Lenders, the Pre-Petition BMO Lenders, the Pre-Petition BMO
Agent, the Pre-Petition CoBank Lenders, the Pre-Petition CoBank Agent, and
prospective participants in the Pre-Petition BMO Credits or the Pre-Petition
CoBank Credits, provided that any such participant or potential participant has
executed a confidentiality agreement containing provisions substantially the
same as those of Section 12.29 and otherwise reasonably acceptable to the
Debtors and the DIP Agent, the Pre-Petition BMO Agent and the Pre-Petition
CoBank Agent, as appropriate.

       

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      This
Post-Petition Credit Agreement is entered into between us for the uses and
purposes hereinabove set forth as of the date first above written.

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                “Borrower”

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Pilgrim’s
      Pride Corporation, as debtor and
  debtor-in-possession

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By
      /s/ Richard A.
      Cogdill

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and
Treasurer

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                 “Guarantors”

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                PFS
      Distribution Company, as debtor and
  debtor-in-possession

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By
      /s/ Richard A.
      Cogdill

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and
Treasurer

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                PPC
      Transportation Company, as debtor and
  debtor-in-possession

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By
      /s/ Richard A.
      Cogdill

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and
Treasurer

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Pilgrim’s
      Pride Corporation of West Virginia, Inc., as debtor and
      debtor-in-possession

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By
      /s/ Richard A.
      Cogdill

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and
Treasurer

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                PPC
      Marketing, Ltd., as debtor and
  debtor-in-possession

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By
      /s/ Richard A.
      Cogdill

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and
Treasurer

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                 “DIP
      Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer
”

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Bank
      of Montreal, as a Lender, Swing Line Lender, L/C Issuer and as DIP
      Agent

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By
      /s/ Barry
      Stratton

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Senior Vice President

              

      

      

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                “Lenders”

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Cooperatieve
      Centrale Raiffeisen-Boerenleenbank B.A. “Rabobank
      Nederland” New York Branch

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By
      /s/ Richard J.
      Beard

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Executive Director

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By
      /s/ Brett
      Delfino

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Executive Director

              

      

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                U.S.
      Bank National Association

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By/s/ Dale L.
      Welke

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Vice President

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Wells
      Fargo Bank National Association

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By/s/ Roger
      Fruendt

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Vice President

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                ING
      Capital LLC

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By/s/ Dan
      Lamprecht

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Managing Director

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                CALYON
      New York Branch

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By/s/ Alan
      Sidrane

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Managing Director

              

      

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By/s/ John-Charles van
      Essche

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Managing Director

              

      

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Natixis
      New York Branch

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By
      /s/ Vincent
      Lauras

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Managing Director

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By
      /s/ Stephen A.
      Jendras

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Managing Director

              

      

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                SunTrust
      Bank

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By/s/ Janet R.
      Naifeh

              

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Senior Vice President

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                First
      National Bank of Omaha

              

      

       

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                By

              	
                /s/ Wade
      Horton

              	 

      

      
        	
                 
      

              	
                Its
      Vice President

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