Poultry Market News
Donald Carnes, Director
19 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive S.W.
Room 134
Atlanta, GA 30334
GA Toll Free-800-282-5852, x63656
Tele: 404-656-3656
Fax: 404-657-7529
The Georgia Department of Agriculture Poultry Market News Service provides marketing and statistical information for the production, distribution and consumption of poultry and poultry products in Georgia. This is vital to the state due to the fact that poultry is Georgia’s largest agricultural commodity.
The Poultry Market News Service distributes complete, timely and accurate market information to poultry producers, processors, distributors, fast food operators, chain store buyers, as well as other interested parties from the food industry and the consuming public. This information is reported in Georgia and all areas where Georgia Poultry products are traded both domestically and internationally.
Our responsibility is to report on a daily basis the established prices of dressed F.O.B. dock broilers and fryers, line run tenders, skinless boneless breasts, whole breasts, boneless skinless thigh meat, thighs, drumsticks, leg quarters and wings processed in Georgia. In conjunction with these prices, information pertaining to supply, demand, price, quality, volume of slaughter, number of loads and / or pounds sold, along with weighted averages are gathered daily from many sources within the state’s broiler industry. There has been tremendous response to the markets on the various poultry parts due to increased consumer interest in purchasing selective parts and further processed products. Quotations at farm on heavy breeder type hens as well as supply and demand factors are also gathered from industry sources and reported weekly.
Once all data and factors relative to market conditions are compiled, and the nine different market prices are computed, the information is analyzed and assimilated into the daily report. It is prepared in a form concise enough to be carried by the news media. Both buyers and sellers in the poultry industry as well as consumers have access to these daily reports in order to enhance their knowledge of the poultry industry before marketing and purchasing decisions are made.
Reports are distributed daily by various methods for maximum exposure. Our market is reported by telephone to numerous state market news services and / or poultry associations, as well as each day’s report being available by telephone 24 hours a day through a recorded message at 404-656-3709. The report is carried live on numerous radio and television stations from within the state, and national wire services also disseminate our report daily. The USDA carries our daily reports over their satellite system and in their printed reports. Direct access to information is also available from our staff by calling our offices at 404-656-3656.
We distribute an official printed report as well. In excess of 11,800 copies of our official weekly printed report are mailed on an annual basis to individuals, companies and organizations that require the market information to assist them in their business endeavors. The Georgia Department of Agriculture internet Web Site at www.agr.state.ga.us includes our Daily Reports, as well as Historical and Statistical Data for access by all interested parties. An email list is also maintained whereby over 1,900 emails of the daily reports are sent annually.