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Virginia Poultry Statistics
 Broilers (Commercial) |
| Cash receipts |
$559.4 million |
| Quantity raised |
250.2 million |
| Pounds produced |
1.30 billion |
| Source: National Agricultural Statistics Service (Most recent figures, 2007) |
| Turkeys |
| Cash receipts |
$298.6 million |
| Quantity raised |
22 million |
| Pounds produced |
574.2 million |
| Source: VASS (Most recent figures, 2007) |
| Eggs |
| Cash receipts |
$79 million |
| Number produced |
794 million |
| Source: NASS (Most recent figures, 2007) |
| Chickens |
| Value of production |
$1.6 million |
| Total chickens |
2.46 million |
| Source: NASS (Most recent figures, 2006) |
| Percentage of All Virginia Commodities |
| Broilers |
18.8
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| Turkeys |
9.9 |
| Eggs |
2.5
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| Source: NASS (Most recent figures, 2007) |
| Virginia Poultry's National Ranking |
| 4th in turkey production |
| 9th in broiler production |
| 28th in egg production |
| Source: NASS (Most recent figures, 2007) |
| Why Did the Chicken Cross the Road? |
| Virginia’s poultry industry has six poultry processing companies: Cargill Turkey Products; George’s Foods; Pilgrim’s Pride Corporation; Perdue Farms; Tyson Foods; and Virginia Poultry Growers Cooperative, Inc. |
| Virginia’s poultry processing companies employ more than 10,000 people. Every processing job creates 7.2 jobs outside the poultry industry. |
| There are more than 300 turkey farms and 880 chicken farms in Virginia supporting approximately 1,200 farm families. |
| Rockingham County is the nation’s second-largest turkey producing county. |
| Source: Virginia Poultry Federation, 2007 |
| In the Market for Poultry |
| Per capita U.S. poultry meat consumption has risen from 34 pounds in 1960 to 100 pounds today. |
| Virginia exports about 15 percent of chicken and about 10 percent of turkey produced in the commonwealth. |
| Significant chicken export markets include Russia, Hong Kong, Mexico, Japan and Korea. |
| Significant turkey export markets include Mexico, Russia, South Korea, Hong Kong and the Carribean. |
| Source: Virginia Poultry Federation, 2007 |
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