Celebrating two score of U.S. poultry and egg export promotion, this September the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council is observing its 40-year anniversary.
What began in 1985 as an intermediary organization between the USDA, agricultural trade offices, and embassies around the world, the council is lauding the substantial increase in poultry exports during the previous four decades. When the organization began, U.S. poultry and egg exports were approximately $249 million a year. That number has grown to its current total of more than $5.8 billion, USAPEEC notes in its announcement. Read more