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USDA Broiler/Fryer Slaughter 05/21 11:31
05/21/2025 | 11:31 am CDT

USDA Broiler/Fryer Slaughter 05/21 11:31

By 
NW_PY019
Atlanta, GA          Wed. May 21, 2025          USDA Market News

NOTICE: Beginning June 2, 2025, this report will be discontinued and the 
information it provides will be combined into a new daily livestock and 
poultry slaughter report accessible at 
https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_3208.pdf. In this new report, 
young chicken slaughter information will only be reported on a national 
level and the state and regional breakdowns will no longer be published. 
Weekly volume data can be found at 
https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/nw_py017.txt. 


BROILER/FRYER: Daily Estimated Slaughter of Broiler/Fryers

               Estimated             ACTUAL      Avg. Wt.         Actual Avg. 
Wt.
                   (1,000)       (1,000)                         (1,000)
                   05/21   05/20   05/19   05/16   05/19   05/16   05/14   05/12
Alabama            4,228   4,196   4,172   3,803    5.79    6.36   4,275    5.72
Arkansas           5,131   5,146   4,953   3,716    7.00    7.24   5,014    7.15
Delmarva           2,221   2,248   2,191   2,201    7.49    7.04   2,171    7.11
KY-LA-TN           2,305   2,439   2,462   2,120    6.25    5.63   2,448    6.03
Mississippi        2,601   2,633   2,658   2,540    6.65    6.59   2,683    6.79
North Carolina     3,666   3,670   3,489   3,288    8.62    8.19   3,614    8.80
Texas              2,865   2,876   2,849   2,746    6.99    6.97   2,929    7.12
Total             23,017  23,208  22,774  20,414    6.95    6.92  23,134    6.97
Mon-Wed           69,117 (A)                                      69,109 (A)

(A) Weekly cumulative for states listed above.
Broiler-fryer slaughter under federal inspection for 21-May-25
is estimated to be 35,030,000 head up 0.91 percent from a week ago
and up 1.9 percent from a year ago.
(Last week 34,715,000, last year 34,390,000)

SOURCE: USDA Livestock, Poultry, & Grain Market News
        Atlanta, GA    404-562-5850  email: Atlanta.LPGMN@ams.usda.gov
        http://www.ams.usda.gov/market-news/livestock-poultry-grain

Prepared: 21-May-25 12:18 PM C JG

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