Corn usage for ethanol production during 2010-11 was increased by 50 million bushels to 5.000 billion bushels when compared with the March estimate and is 9.5 percent greater than the 4.568 billion bushels in 2009-10, according to the “World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates” report issued today by USDA’s World Agricultural Outlook Board.
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The National Chicken Council, U.S. Poultry & Egg Association (USPOULTRY), and the National Turkey Federation have joined the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) in a lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) authority to implement a program based on flawed assumptions that EPA has failed to address which could also destroy agricultural jobs in the Chesapeake Bay region.
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Consumers are experiencing “sticker shock” at the retail meat case as prices shoot up, Sherry Frey of the Perishables Group told the NCC-U.S. Poultry & Egg Association Food Media Seminar in Charleston, South Carolina, this week. Average retail prices of meat and poultry items increased 8.8 percent in January compared to the same month in 2010, she said.
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The restaurant business continues to struggle with flat demand related to the high level of unemployment in the country, Lampkin Butts, president and chief operating officer of Sanderson Farms, Laurel, Mississippi, told food writers and editors at the NCC-USPOULTRY Food Media Seminar in Charleston, South Carolina, this week.
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“Moderating weight gain” for broilers will likely result in slightly lower broiler production this year when compared with last month’s estimates, according to USDA’s “World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates” report issued today by the Department’s World Agricultural Outlook Board.
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