U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins this week announced new actions to reduce burdens on U.S. chicken processing facilities, allowing for greater efficiency while maintaining food and worker safety standards. The directive instructs the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to eliminate outdated administrative requirements that have slowed production and added unnecessary costs for American producers.

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Rep. Josh Riley (D-NY) this week introduced “The Lowering Egg Prices Act” with Dusty Johnson (R-SD), Pat Harrigan (R-NC), and Kristen McDonald Rivet (D-MI), that would cut bureaucratic red tape that forces farmers to discard hundreds of millions of eggs each year.

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NCC this week on social media

On March 21, 2025, in Social Media, by Tom

NCC is active on all major social media channels! Follow the NCC and Chicken Check In accounts on NCC Twitter, Chicken Check In Twitter, InstagramLinkedInYouTube, Facebook, and TikTok. Click through to see a few recent posts.

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The 2025 Chicken Marketing Summit will be held at the DeSoto Savannah in Savannah, Georgia, on July 28-30, 2025. This one-of-a-kind-event will feature two content tracks. The first will focus on consumers and how technology impacts them, while the second will look at the impact new technologies have from an operational standpoint for chicken companies, retail and foodservice. Registration is now open.

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Fresh meat increased dollar sales by 12.0% in February, easily outperforming the 1.4% increase in processed meat, leading to an overall 8.8% increase over February 2024, according to the latest Performance Report from Circana, 210 Analytics, and Hillphoenix.

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U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending March 22, 2025, is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 169,284,000 broilers, a 5-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.

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