If U.S. agriculture or selected parts of U.S. agriculture are excluded from the soon-to-be officially-launched Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) final agreement or are placed into a “future negotiation” category, it will likely fail to win the overall support of the food and agricultural sector that will be needed to ensure final congressional approval of the agreement, the National Chicken Council and forty other agricultural organizations said in a jointly-signed letter to White House Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economic Affairs and U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) nominee Michael Froman.
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Intended U.S. placements of broiler pullet chicks for the hatchery supply flock for April 2013 were 6,222,000, a 5-percent decrease from the 6,524,000 pullet chicks placed in April 2012, according to the “Chickens and Eggs” report issued this week by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS).
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