To kickoff the NFL season and September’s National Chicken Month, NCC, the Congressional and Senate Chicken Caucuses, and the Congressional and Senate Small Brewers Caucuses will be hosting a bicameral Congressional reception on Thursday, September 4 on Capitol Hill. If you are in D.C. and interested in a late afternoon reception with chicken wings and cold beer, please contact David Elrod for more information: [email protected]. To RSVP, please click here.
The Joint Poultry Industry Safety & Health Council recognized 222 chicken and turkey facilities with safety awards at the National Safety Conference for the Poultry Industry in Destin, Fla. The facilities were honored in recognition of their outstanding performance through the implementation of innovative and effective employee safety and health programs.
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The four-week month of July generated nearly $8.8 billion in meat department sales, according to the latest Performance Report from Circana, 210 Analytics, and Hillphoenix. This reflects inflationary gains as well as demand-driven growth. Pound sales increased 1.6 percent in July 2025. The increase was fully driven by fresh meat sales that increased 2.5 percent in July while processed meat sales were down 0.5 percent.
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The convergence of anti-obesity medications and evolving food policy could significantly boost protein consumption in 2025, creating new opportunities for broiler producers, according to Nick Fereday, executive director at Rabobank‘s research department. At the 2025 Chicken Marketing Summit, Fereday outlined two transformational trends reshaping the U.S. food landscape: the widespread adoption of GLP-1 weight loss drugs and the growing influence of the Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) movement on food policy.
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NCC Senior Vice President of Scientific and Regulatory Affairs Ashley Peterson, Ph.D. will be providing a broiler health and regulatory update at the upcoming EMI Protein Outlook Fall Conference, which will be held September 23-25, 2025 at the Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Center in Grapevine, Texas. More information can be found here.
The United States District Court for the District of Columbia yesterday issued an order that confirmed a reporting exemption for air emissions from the natural breakdown of animal waste at a farm. The court affirmed that the reporting exemption under the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), issued by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in June 2019, is appropriate because of the relationship between the reporting mandates under EPCRA and the Comprehensive Emergency Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), also known as the federal Superfund law.
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New consumer research reveals that fresh chicken buyers are increasingly turning to technology for shopping and meal preparation, while also demanding greater transparency around animal welfare, sustainability and product safety. The study, commissioned by the National Chicken Council (NCC) and WATT Global Media and conducted online by Circana in June 2025, surveyed 625 U.S. adults aged 18–67. The focus was on understanding how generational cohorts shop for, prepare, and think about fresh chicken in an era of inflation and rapidly advancing technology.
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