EXHIBIT 99.2

         STATEMENT UNDER OATH OF AND PRINCIPAL FINANCIAL OFFICER

    REGARDING FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES RELATING TO EXCHANGE ACT FILINGS


I, Richard A. Cogdill, state and attest that:

(1)  To  the  best   of my knowledge,  based upon  a review of the covered
     reports of Pilgrim's Pride Corporation, and, except as  corrected  or
     supplemented in a subsequent covered report:

     *  no covered report contained an untrue statement of a material fact
        as of the end of the period covered by such report (or in the case
        of a report on Form 8-K or definitive  proxy  materials, as of the
        date on which it was filed); and

     *  no  covered report omitted to state a material fact  necessary  to
        make  the  statements  in  the  covered  report,  in  light of the
        circumstances under which they were made, not misleading as of the
        end  of  the  period covered by such report (or in the case  of  a
        report on Form  8-K  or definitive proxy materials, as of the date
        on which it was filed).

(2)  I have  reviewed  the   contents   of  this  statement  with  the
     Company's audit committee.

(3)  In this   statement  under oath, each of the following, if filed on or
     before the date of this statement, is a "covered report":

     *  the Annual Report on Form 10-K of Pilgrim's  Pride Corporation for
        the period ended September 29, 2001 filed with the Commission;

     *  all  reports on Form  10-Q,  all  reports  on  Form  8-K  and  all
        definitive  proxy  materials  of Pilgrim's Pride Corporation filed
        with the Commission subsequent  to  the  filing  of  the Form 10-K
        identified above; and

     *  any amendments to any of the foregoing.

                                        /s/ Richard A, Cogdill
                                   ___________________________
                                   Richard A. Cogdill
                                   August 7, 2002

Subscribed and sworn to before me this
7th day of August, 2002.

/S/ NONA R. BRANCH

Notary Public
My Commission Expires:  4/30/03