Congress adjourned for the week without determining the total spending levels for its FY2024 appropriations bills.

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Numerous Members of Congress have announced they will not be running for reelection, including former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) this week.

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Similar to humans and companion animals, broilers receive vaccines as a preventative measure to keep them healthy against harmful diseases. The goal of vaccines is to expose the chicken to a bacteria or a virus in order to train the immune system to recognize and respond to subsequent exposure without risking development of serious disease.

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The International Poultry Council’s Executive Committee on Tuesday announced its new composition for 2024.

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) this week released the “Draft National Strategy for Reducing Food Loss and Waste and Recycling Organics.”

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Chicken exports in October 2023 decreased 11.7 percent in quantity and decreased 10.4 percent in value when compared with October 2022, according to USDA.

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U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending December 9, 2023 is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 171,255,000 broilers, a 1-percent decrease from the same week a year earlier.

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