CENSUS RADIO BROADCAST SERVICE

     Edition #152--For Air Beginning Week of March 20, 1995
     
"Just a Minute," Runs :60

CAGLE:  "Just a Minute," a look at American agriculture with Joe
Miller.  Joe, chicken is increasingly a staple of the American
diet.  What states give us most of the supply we have of chicken?

MILLER:  If we look at the results of the most recent Census of
Agriculture, the answer has to be given as a block--the solid
South.  The South is definitely the nation's leading area for the
production of chicken.  All five of the top states are in the
South.  If we look at broiler production, what some people used to
call fryers, the leading states from first through fifth are
Arkansas, Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina, and Mississippi.  These
five states account for 60 percent of the five-and-a-half billion
broiler chickens raised nationally in 1992.  This accounts for 
20 chickens annually for each person in the United States.

CAGLE:  "Just a Minute" is produced by the U.S. Census Bureau.