USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) on May 12 purchased chicken and chicken products as indicated below for distribution to the school lunch child nutrition and other related domestic food assistance programs for fiscal year 2015.
Deliveries will be made from July 1 – September 30, 2015.
| Product | Pounds | Award Prices | Total Dollars |
| Chicken Cut-Up Frozen CTN-40 LB | 1, 760,000.000 | $1.0264-$1.1379 | $1,870,816.00 |
| Chicken Whole Bagged Frozen CTn-36-43 LB | 4,672,800.000 | $1.0265-$1.1366 | $4,973,411.52 |
| Total | 6,432,800.000 | $6,844,227.52 |
AMS also purchased on May 15 canned chicken as indicated below for orders placed from July 1, 2015 – June 30, 2016.
| Product | Case Amounts | Award Prices | Total Dollars |
| Canned Chicken | 345,600 | $1.5951-$1.7576 | $13,832,716.80 |
