Christmas is a big holiday for turkey companies, as consumers buy turkeys for big family meals, and supermarkets do a great job of getting their stores ready for the rush. But in 2022, things are a little different for the category. Just like in the first two pandemic years, it looks like the category may take something of a hit.

Not since 2015 has an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) impacted the commercial poultry industry to such a degree that turkey prices have soared to all-time highs and egg prices have broken record highs three times with a potential to achieve a fourth record before yearend.

Goffle Road Poultry Farm, based in Wyckoff, NJ, received $4.2 million from the US Department of Agriculture as part of the more than $223 million grants and loans distributed nationwide to smaller, independent processors.

Acting on a directive from the Biden-Harris administration, the US Department of Agriculture is offering more than $223 million in grants and loans toward growing competition and expanding meat and poultry processing capacity in the United States.

Tanmiah Food Co. and Tyson Foods Inc., Springdale, Ark., have partnered to invest in expanding the poultry capacity of Supreme Foods Processing Co. (SFPC), a subsidiary of Tanmiah, to facilitate the company to increase its capacity of chicken production by 100,000 tonnes per year and its daily processing capacity to over 1 million birds as part of a deal that was signed in July 2022.

Following the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) declaration of Salmonella as an adulterant in breaded and stuffed raw chicken products, the National Chicken Council delivered its public comments to the agency.

On Oct. 14, the US Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) released a proposed regulatory framework intended to help control Salmonella contamination in poultry products.

Tight turkey supplies have CoBank economists warning consumers to expect higher costs to fill their Thanksgiving tables this year.

Tyson Foods Inc. agreed to pay $10.5 million to settle a poultry price-fixing lawsuit filed by Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson a year ago.

On Oct. 21, an outbreak of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) was confirmed in Rhode Island, the first case the state has seen.