Top Broiler Producing States

In 2016 the United States produced 8,625,200,000 broilers (8.776 billion) weighing 49,162,100,000 pounds (54.259 billion pounds).

STATE	NUMBER	(Billions of Pounds) LIVEWEIGHT
Georgia	1,367,100	8,065,000
Arkansas	1,009,400	6,561,100
North Carolina	818,700	6,467,700
Alabama	1,070,100	5,992,600
Mississippi	739,400	4,658,200
Texas	3,840,000	3,840,000
Maryland	303,500	1,851,400
Delaware	252,500	1,843,300
Kentucky	300,300	1,831,800
South Carolina	244,700	1,810,800
Virginia	269,100	1,533,900
Missouri	293,000	1,435,700
Oklahoma	209,700	1,363,100
Pennsylvania	185,700	1,039,900
Tennessee	175,200	928,600
Ohio	88,000	475,200
Florida	63,200	366,600
West Virginia	90,300	352,200
Minnesota	48,400	295,200
Wisconsin	54,100	227,200
Other States²	564,800	3,318,700
Total³	8,776,700	54,259,100
¹December 1, 2009, through November 30, 2010
² CA, IN, IA, LA, MI, MO, NE, NY, OR, & WA combined to avoid disclosing individual operations
³ Excludes States producing less than 500,000 broilers April 2017

Source: All data is from USDA. No estimated or forward-looking figures are provided by NCC.

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