Article: Tyson Foods Promises to Keep IBP Ties to Independent Livestock Growers.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)

Dec. 21--Tyson Foods Inc. is raising the stakes in the three-way battle to take over IBP Inc.

John Tyson, the company's top executive, hasn't offered more money. He hasn't offered more stock.

He has offered his word -- a personal assurance to independent livestock growers that Tyson Foods won't shift production of cattle and hogs to company-owned operations.

Tyson's assurance is a new tactic in his company's bid to acquire IBP, the world's largest beef producer and second-largest pork producer. It is competing against Smithfield Foods Inc. and a group of investors including IBP executives to buy the Dakota Dunes, S.D.-based company with $14.1 ...

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