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USDA AMS Weekly National Chicken Report (wholesale prices and volumes of whole birds and parts) release schedule and API

USDA AMS. Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Marketing Service, Livestock, Poultry and Grain Market News, Weekly National Chicken Report. Licence: public-domain.

Next releases

ReleaseUTCAgency local time
Weekly National Chicken Report12:00 local (UTC-05:00)
Weekly National Chicken Report12:00 local (UTC-05:00)
Weekly National Chicken Report12:00 local (UTC-05:00)
Weekly National Chicken Report12:00 local (UTC-05:00)
Weekly National Chicken Report12:00 local (UTC-05:00)
Weekly National Chicken Report12:00 local (UTC-05:00)

From the agency's own calendar, as of 2026-11-13. Reschedules and cancellations are in the API.

How fast it reaches the API

ReleaseMeasuredMedianFastestSlowestMissed
CHICKEN12.9 min2.9 min2.9 min0

Time from the agency publishing to the data being on our feed, for releases caught live in the last 30 days. Every release counts, including slow ones and misses.

Get it by API

Series ids: US.CHICKEN_PRICE.WINGS_WHOLE.NSA, US.CHICKEN_PRICE.WHOLE_BIRD.NSA.

# pip install econfeed-client
from econfeed_client import Client

ef = Client()  # ECONFEED_API_KEY from the environment
for e in ef.calendar(days=90, source="us_ams_chicken"):
    print(e.scheduled_at, e.release_name, e.reference_period)

# add as_of= for what was known then
page = ef.observations("US.CHICKEN_PRICE.WINGS_WHOLE.NSA", start="2024-01")

# pushed seconds after release
for ev in ef.stream(sources=["us_ams_chicken"]):
    print(ev.type, ev.data.release_id)

REST: GET /v1/calendar?source=us_ams_chicken, GET /v1/series/US.CHICKEN_PRICE.WINGS_WHOLE.NSA/observations. Webhooks: filter on source us_ams_chicken.