Illinois ‘Chicken Bill’ Aims to Boost Small Poultry Farms, Expand Access to Their Products

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Illinois ‘chicken bill’ aims to boost small poultry farms, expand access to their products

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Law would allow farmers to sell poultry at farmers markets

by Grace Friedman and Medill Illinois News Bureau SPRINGFIELD — A bill that would lift long-standing restrictions on small poultry farmers in Illinois, reducing red tape and transforming the way local farmers process and sell their products, is heading to the governor. Under a measure dubbed the “chicken bill,” farmers who process fewer than 7,500 birds annually would be exempt from state and federal inspections of their poultry operations or fr…