Economists: Poultry market unlikely to see big effect
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Agricultural economists say there should be little change in poultry prices after a weak strain of avian flu
was found in chickens at a pair of Delaware farms.
But that could change if the virus spreads widely or other countries continue to ban all U-S poultry products.
Annual poultry exports total more than one-point-seven billion dollars a year.
H-L Goodwin, a poultry economist at the University of Arkansas, says many countries that have banned all U-S poultry are likely to take another look at the situation and ban only birds from the affected region.
Tyson Foods of Springdale, the nation`s largest poultry producer, has said in a statement that it expects countries to relax nationwide bans to state-specific bans after more information is known.
