ANALYSIS: YTD Chicken Weight Distribution Over Time
While chicken production has clearly increased in the past ten years when looking at the data on a year-to-date (YTD) basis, there’s also been a definite shift in weights of chickens harvested. This year’s total YTD head count is up 6% from 2014 at a value of approximately 4.37 million birds. This is following 2023’s nearly 4.47 million birds produced, the highest YTD production of the past ten years.
While overall chicken numbers have increased since 2014, production of certain weight categories...
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