DID YOU KNOW?
Americans consume poultry in amazing quantities. We eat nearly 90 pounds of chicken, 17 pounds of turkey, and more than 240 eggs per person per year.
LINKS
USPOULTRY
NC Egg
National Chicken Council
North Carolina Department of Agriculture
NC State Extension
International Poultry Expo and International Feed Expo
NC State University College of Engineering Industrial Extension Division
National Turkey Federation
NC State Prestage Department of Poultry Science
NC Agricultural Statistics
Avian Influenza
Staff Login
For Immediate Release
RALEIGH, NC - 01/20/2023
Contact: Robert L. Ford,
rlford@ncpoultry.org
Perdue Farms Announces Partnership with GreenGasUSA, 17 Percent Companywide Net Reduction in Carbon Emissions
Perdue Farms has partnered with GreenGasUSA to further the company's carbon-reduction goals. In late 2022, GreenGas completed installation of equipment at Perdue's operations in Lewiston, N.C. to capture the methane from the operation's onsite wastewater treatment facility and convert it to renewable natural gas (RNG). Through GreenGas' partnership with large food producers, industrial and manufacturing companies all across the United States, the pipeline-grade RNG is transported from Perdue's Lewiston operation to a GreenGas RNG pipeline interconnection hub, where it is injected into existing pipelines and made available to their customers.
Click here for full article