Chicken Wings for Super Bowl and Bird Flu Warnings
From the Ag Information Network, I’m Bob Larson with your Agribusiness Update.
**As you probably know, the Seahawks play the Patriots this Sunday in the Super Bowl.
And while New England is known for clam chowder and Seattle for salmon tossing at fish markets, nothing is hotter than chicken wings for the Super Bowl.
The National Chicken Council released its annual Chicken Wing Report, which projects Americans will eat 1.48 billion chicken wings while watching the Super Bowl, about 10-million more wings than last year.
**Following the recent confirmation of bird flu in backyard and commercial poultry flocks, Clemson University is urging owners to take extra care to isolate domestic birds from wild waterfowl and from ponds, lakes and other water sources.
HPAI has been detected in wild birds across numerous states, according to the USDA.
While state-by-state wild bird detection numbers fluctuate due to migration patterns, significant detections of the H5N1 strain have continued into 2026.
www.morningagclips.com/clemson-urges-poultry-producers-to-strengthen-biosecurity-amid-ga-n-c-hpai-detections/
**The cattle inventory was 86.2 million head on January 1st, which continues a long-standing downward trend.
Despite a year of strong prices, the USDA Cattle Inventory Report showed the overall U.S. cattle herd shrank by another 0.35%, the smallest level in 75 years.
At 27.6 million head, the beef cow herd was down 1%.
And the calf crop was 32.9 million head, the smallest since 1941.
