Broiler chick placements for growout since mid-year have a “pattern of strong declines” and this development is expected to continue through the remainder of the third quarter and into the fourth quarter, according to the Livestock, Dairy, and Poultry Outlook report this month from USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS).
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A proposal by the Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) to increase requirements for companies to report employee hospitalizations is an added burden on employers and will do “little if anything” to improve workplace safety, according to the Joint Poultry Industry Safety & Health Council.
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Even though total broiler meat consumption in the Caribbean is predicted to decline about 1 percent in 2011 from 2010, total broiler meat consumption in the Caribbean will have increased 49 percent from 263,000 metric tons in 2001 to an estimated 392,000 tons in 2011 according to the International Egg and Poultry Review from Agricultural Marketing Service’s Poultry Program.
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