Washington Report

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).