NCC this week joined 176 other national and state agriculture and trade associations in a letter to President Biden expressing concern regarding a possible strike on October 1 by workers at East and Gulf coast ports if a new agreement with shipping carriers is not reached.

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Perdue Farms this week was named as one of the best private companies to work for by U.S. News & World Report.

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Dr. Evan Feigenbaum, Vice President for Studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is slated to speak on October 17 at the National Chicken Council’s 69th Annual Conference at the Four Seasons Hotel in Washington, D.C.

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Each week, NCC will feature in a short spotlight column the official representative from each of our Allied Leader and Allied Member companies. This week’s Allied Leader Member Spotlight is Clay Adkins, who is National Protein Director at International Paper.

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Eastman joins NCC as allied member company

On September 20, 2024, in Membership, by Polina Burko

Eastman, based in Kingsport, TN, has joined the National Chicken Council as an allied member company. Maria Rusnak, Senior Innovation Project Leader, will serve as the official representative to NCC.

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The HPAI Impact & Insights Forum will bring together the poultry and dairy industries to assess the current domestic and international situation with highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI), epidemiological trends, biosecurity efforts, producer experiences, communication strategies, and much more. The Forum will provide an overall dialogue to convey lessons learned in an effort to be better prepared to prevent and control HPAI in the future. The Forum will be held Oct. 29-30 in Arlington, Virginia, at the Crystal Gateway Marriott.

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Chicken producers, processors, and marketers need to start future-proofing operations and communications with the unique expectations of the consumer of 2035 in mind. During the 2024 Chicken Marketing Summit, industry experts presented the latest data and insights to help the chicken industry and poultry buyers prepare for the future chicken consumer. Here are the highlights.

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August was a very strong month for the meat department, especially on the fresh meat side. The five August weeks generated $10.1 billion, which was up 4.6 percent over August 2023, with pound gains of 1.4 percent, according to the August 2024 Performance Report from Circana, 210 Analytics, and Hillphoenix.

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U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending September 21, 2024, is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 172,828,000 broilers, no change from the same week a year earlier.

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