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Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive |
Poultry ReportPublished Wednesday, January 8, 1997 in the Nevada County PicayuneArkansas' producers placed 22.9 million chicks for broiler production during the week ending December 14, according to the Arkansas Agricultural Statistics Service. The week's placements were down three percent from a year ago, and slightly below the revised previous week. These percentages included 2.2 million chicks from other states. The cumulative total placements for the 1997 marketing year begining October 27, 1996, were 152.3 million, down 3 percent from the 156.2 million placed during the same period a year earlier. The total broiler hatch for the week was 24.4 million, down one percent from the corresponding week a year earlier, but unchanged from the previous week. Of the total broiler chicks hatched in the state 3.2 million were shipped out of the state. Average hatchability for broiler-type eggs during the week was 82.7 percent. Search | Nevada County Picayune by date | Gurdon Times by date |
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