USDA is currently forecasting broiler production in 2013 to be just under 1 percent less estimated output in 2012, but the “amount and duration of the decrease” will depend on the health of the domestic economy, the level of competing protein prices, and the strength of exports demand, according to the “Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook” report released this week from the department’s Economic Research Service (ERS).
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The European Commission, the European Union’s regulatory body in Brussels, proposed this week that first-generation biofuels made from crops such as sugar, starch, or vegetable oils provide no more than 5 percent of the EU target for transport fuel, according to a Business News report.
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This week Howard Henderson, New Jersey State director for USDA’s Economic Development Administration, announced his agency’s grant of $1.45 million to Franklin Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, to ready a site for leasing to a food processing company, most likely a poultry processing plant.
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