The Poultry Market News Branch provides up-to-the-minute nationwide coverage of prices, supply, demand, trends, movement, and other pertinent information affecting the trading of poultry and eggs.

The unbiased accurate, and timely market information helps buyers and sellers make informed marketing decisions and keeps product flowing to market where and when it is needed. The information collected by Federal and State reporters through telephone interviews with buyers and sellers of egg and poultry commodities covers 84 markets and 79 different commodity items.

The Federal offices are located in Atlanta, Georgia; Des Moines, Iowa, and Jackson, Mississippi. State reporters in North Carolina, Texas, and Virginia support the Federal program through cooperative agreements. All information collected by Market News is voluntarily given by over 1,750 participating customers. This information is held in the strictest confidence and only released as composite information to avoid disclosing individual operations.

The reports issued cover major production and consumer areas. Most reports are released daily, but some are released three times a week, twice weekly, weekly, monthly, and annually. Individual reports are assembled and arranged to create printed summary reports which are available by mail, facsimile, and Internet. Both individual and summary market reports are also disseminated by automated telephone answering services, newspapers and magazines, trade publications, radio, and television.