For 12 years, House of Raeford Farms has supported the dreams of students, and this year, the company awarded scholarships to 33 promising individuals, helping them take one step closer to their goals. This is the highest number of recipients in the program’s history.

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U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending May 17, 2025, is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 171,385,000 broilers, a 4-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.

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President Trump on Thursday unveiled an outline in principle of a new trade agreement with the United Kingdom. Many specifics about the deal were not immediately clear, including if U.S. chicken will be included, and nothing was signed during the Oval Office event.

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Georgia, North Carolina, Arkansas, Alabama and Texas were the top five states for liveweight broiler production last year, according to USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). Georgia reclaims its position from North Carolina as the number one producing state.

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