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Increased demand for dark chicken meat creates new opportunities

Furthermore, advances in whole leg deboning technology continue to improve yields with half of the labor required of hand deboning.
November 4, 2019
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Advances in mechanical deboning technology allow U.S. chicken producers to capture the emerging demand for dark meat while addressing the ever-present labor shortage, according to a report from CoBank’s Knowledge Exchange division, Greenwood Village, Colo.
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Study: U.S. consumers buy chicken for versatility, value, variety

All meat buyers are driven by taste, yet taste is a less important driver for the plant-based consumer, as fish is purchased for health and convenience reasons.
July 22, 2019
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Chicken purchasers cite more positive attributes than purchasers of beef, pork, fish and plant-based meat proteins, according to new research presented by the National Chicken Council (NCC), Washington, D.C.
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Mountaire Farms buys grain storage facility

The Cartanza facility has the capacity to store more than 1 million bushels of grain, and features a grain dryer.
June 3, 2019
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Mountaire Farms, Millsboro, Del., purchased a new grain storage facility in Dover, Del., to allow the company to buy more local grain to make feed chickens.
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