Americans Are Devouring Organic Chickens as Sales Rise
- Sales of organic broilers jumped 78% last year, USDA reports
- Organic market grows to $7.6 billion, with acreage on the rise
Chickens at a certified organic family run farm, in Sheffield, Illinois, U.S.
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Americans have a seemingly insatiable hunger for organic chickens. That’s helping to drive growth in the booming specialty industry for farm products.
U.S. producers sold $750 million of organic chickens last year, surging 78 percent from 2015, according to data released Wednesday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. That makes chicken meat the third-largest agricultural commodity, trailing milk at $1.4 billion and eggs at $816 million.