USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is proposing a mandatory identification and tracking system for livestock and poultry being moved across state lines, but the poultry industry is largely exempted because the existing system for poultry is more comprehensive than in the cattle industry, the government said.
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Revised August 19, 2011. For a further explanation, see the note at the bottom of the broiler parts story.
Chicken exports in June this year were 270,185 metric tons valued at $321.10 million compared with 306,437 tons valued at $323.48 million in June 2010, an 11.8-percent decrease in quantity and a 0.7-percent decrease in value.
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