NCC’s Dr. Ashley Peterson, and Roy Brister, Alltech Strategic Poultry Advisor, recently joined hosts Karyl Hedden, Alltech U.S. Poultry Business Manager, and Feedstuffs’ Sarah Muirhead to talk poultry food safety on the Feedstuffs Poultry Nation Podcast.

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The 2025 Chicken Marketing Summit, held at the DeSoto Savannah in Savannah, Georgia, on July 28-30, 2025. This one-of-a-kind-event will feature two content tracks. The first will focus on consumers and how technology impacts them, while the second will look at the impact new technologies have from an operational standpoint for chicken companies, retail and foodservice.

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Chicken exports in February 2025 decreased 4.8 percent in quantity and decreased 7.4 percent in value when compared with February 2024, according to USDA.

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U.S. total broiler slaughter data for the week ending April 5, 2025, is estimated by USDA’s Poultry Market News Service to be 170,164,000 broilers, a 6-percent increase from the same week a year earlier.

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Senate confirms Makary for FDA commissioner

On March 28, 2025, in FDA, by Tom

The Senate on Tuesday voted 56-44 to confirm Martin Makary, a former Johns Hopkins University surgeon and author, to lead the Food and Drug Administration. He picked up a trio of Democratic votes — Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL).

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The Department of Homeland Security this week announced its plan to end the parole program for individuals from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, and their immediate family members. The program’s termination, which would take effect on April 24, 2025, would also end work authorization for individuals from these countries participating in the program.

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Animal protein demand has been exceptional in recent years, but chicken saw the largest growth at 19% over the past decade. Chicken fulfills many of the most common current consumer values when it comes to protein, ranking highly for taste, value, price and nutrition, Brian Earnest, animal protein economist at CoBank, explained during the “2025 Market Outlook for Meat and Poultry” session at the 2025 Meat Conference.

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