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Year-round production lowered costs, especially for broilers. Artificial daylight supplementation also started being used. Improvements in production and quality were accompanied by lower labor requirements. In the 1930s through the early 1950s, 1,500 hens was considered to be a full-time job for a farm family.
U.S. intensive chicken farming led to the 1961–1964 "Chicken War" with Europe. The Chicken Tax is a 25 percent tariff on light trucks (and originally on potato starch, dextrin, and brandy) imposed in 1964 by the United States under President Lyndon B. Johnson in response to tariffs placed by France and West Germany on importation of U.S. chicken. [1]
In the late 1960s and early 1970s, major companies used television and print media to market chickens under brand names. Today, 95 percent of broilers sold at retail grocery stores carry a brand name. [citation needed] By the early 1980s, consumers preferred cut-up and further-processed chickens to the traditional whole bird. [citation needed]
The major milestone in 20th-century poultry production was the ... In the 1930s through the early 1950s, 1,500 hens provided a full-time job for a farm family in ...
Most poultry was raised in CAFOs starting in the 1950s, and most cattle and pigs by the 1970s and 1980s. [6] By the mid-2000s CAFOs dominated livestock and poultry production in the United States, and the scope of their market share is steadily increasing.
READ MORE: Bird flu flares up again in Michigan poultry. ... It was luck that Hilleman made an early call to increase production of fertilized eggs. And it was luck that the 1957 virus did not ...
In the 1970s, the National Farmers Organization started working with processors and the food and feed industry to secure supply contracts in all the commodities they represented. The strategy was to sell into rising markets and influence the market positively, rather than feed, and encourage, a continued market downtrend.
As the business grew, the Fosters acquired another farm and a feed mill in the 1950s. The feed mill allowed the company some independence from outside feed contracts. [ 1 ] In 1959, Foster Farms acquired the Sunland Poultry [ 3 ] processing plant in Livingston, California , and in 1960, the company's headquarters was moved there from Modesto.