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USDA Broiler/Fryer Slaughter 05/28 11:31
05/28/2025 | 11:31 am CDT

USDA Broiler/Fryer Slaughter 05/28 11:31

By 
NW_PY019
Atlanta, GA          Wed. May 28, 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)
                   05/28   05/27   05/26   05/23   05/26   05/23   05/21   05/19
Alabama            4,315   4,282     (A)   3,647    6.44    5.74   4,220    5.79
Arkansas           5,169   5,155     (A)   3,778    7.31    7.25   5,051    7.00
Delmarva           2,256   2,238     (A)   3,527    0.00   10.08   2,203    7.49
KY-LA-TN           2,424   2,359     (A)   2,390    4.95    5.64   2,382    6.25
Mississippi        2,579   2,589   2,292   2,517    6.45    6.38   2,660    6.65
North Carolina     3,635   3,612     (A)   4,681    8.28    8.27   3,639    8.62
Texas              2,862   2,859   2,703   2,738    6.83    6.88   2,871    6.99
Total             23,240  23,094   7,924  23,278    6.71    7.34  23,026    6.95
Mon-Wed           54,747 (B)                                      68,856 (B)
(A) Not published to avoid disclosing individual operations
(B) Weekly cumulative for states listed above.
Broiler-fryer slaughter under federal inspection for 28-May-25
is estimated to be 35,369,000 head up 2.36 percent from a week ago
and up 55.6 percent from a year ago.
(Last week 34,553,000, last year 22,736,000)

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: 28-May-25 12:20 PM C JG

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