USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) on October 20 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 2018.
Deliveries will be made from December 1 – 31, 2017.
| Product | Pounds | Award Prices | Total Dollars |
| Chicken Large Chilled-Bulk | 14,436,000.000 | $0.9423-$0.9456 | $13,615,041.60 |
| Chicken Legs Chilled-Bulk | 1,008,000.000 | $0.4275-$0.4275 | 430,920.00 |
| Total | 15,444,000.000 | $14,045,961.60 |
A total of 108,000 pounds of chicken large chilled-bulk were not purchased due to no bids received and a total of 36,000 pounds of chicken legs chilled-bulk were not purchased due to price consideration.
