Fowl parts exports for January-March 2014 were 3 percent above 2013 and 81 percent higher than 2004 for the comparable time period, according to the “International Egg and Poultry Review” this week from USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service’s Livestock, Poultry, and Grain Market News.

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USDA World Agricultural Outlook Board Chair Dr. Gerald Bange will retire from the department on May 31, according to an agency’s news release. 

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U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending April 12 is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 153,187,000 broilers, a 1-percent decrease from the same week a year earlier.

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Michael Helgeson, National Chicken Council Chairman, has announced the names of those industry representatives who will serve on NCC’s 2014 Marketing and Safety & Health Committees.

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U.S. total broiler slaughter for the week ending January 4 is estimated by USDA-AMS’s Poultry Market News Service to be 129,211,000 broilers, a 1-percent decrease from the same week a year earlier.

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Intended U.S. placements of broiler pullet chicks for the hatchery supply flock for September 2013 were 6,911,000, 3 percent above the 6,686,000 pullet chicks placed in September 2012, according to the “Chickens and Eggs” report issued yesterday by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).

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U.S. total broiler slaughter for the week ending November 2 is estimated by USDA-AMS’s Poultry Market News Service to be 157,524,000 broilers, a 6-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.

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U.S. total broiler slaughter for the week ending October 26 is estimated by USDA-AMS’s Poultry Market News Service to be 157,580,000 broilers, a 3-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.

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