{"id":11791,"date":"2025-06-06T10:24:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:24:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/?p=11791"},"modified":"2025-06-06T10:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T15:24:19","slug":"illinois-chicken-bill-aims-to-boost-small-poultry-farms-expand-access-to-their-products","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/local-news\/11791-illinois-chicken-bill-aims-to-boost-small-poultry-farms-expand-access-to-their-products\/","title":{"rendered":"Illinois &#8220;Chicken Bill&#8221; Aims to Boost Small Poultry Farms, Expand Access to Their Products"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pdfprnt-buttons pdfprnt-buttons-post pdfprnt-top-right\"><a href=\"javascript: window.print()\" class=\"pdfprnt-button pdfprnt-button-print\" target=\"_self\" ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thexradio.com\/news\/wp-content\/plugins\/pdf-print\/images\/print.png\" alt=\"image_print\" title=\"Print Content\" \/><span class=\"pdfprnt-button-title pdfprnt-button-print-title\">Print<\/span><\/a><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">By GRACE FRIEDMAN<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Medill Illinois News Bureau<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><br \/>\n<\/span> <a href=\"mailto:news@capitolnewsillinois.com\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">news@capitolnewsillinois.com<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SPRINGFIELD \u2014 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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Under a measure dubbed the \u201cchicken bill,\u201d farmers who process fewer than 7,500 birds annually would be exempt from state and federal inspections of their poultry operations or from having to send birds to USDA-approved processing facilities \u2014 an increase from the previous 5,000-bird threshold. The change, part of an update to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/BillStatus.asp?DocTypeID=HB&amp;DocNum=2196&amp;GAID=18&amp;SessionID=114&amp;LegID=159844\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illinois Meat and Poultry Inspection Act<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, also allows these farmers to sell their poultry beyond their own farms \u2014 including at farmers markets, roadside stands and through delivery \u2014 a major shift from earlier restrictions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;This is important for our small farmers to be able to get their product to the community, and that&#8217;s what this is all about,&#8221; said Sen. Sally Turner, R-Beason, who co-sponsored the bill. The Illinois House voted 116-0 on Friday, May 30, to approve <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilga.gov\/legislation\/BillStatus.asp?DocTypeID=HB&amp;DocNum=2196&amp;GAID=18&amp;SessionID=114&amp;LegID=159844\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">House Bill 2196<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and the Senate passed it unanimously on May 22.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Turner represents a largely rural district spanning 10 counties. &#8220;Farmers in my community, especially small farmers, are important to me, personally, but also to our whole district,&#8221; she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">State Rep. Charlie Meier, R-Okawville, a farmer himself, said the legislation provides local agriculture with a much-needed boost.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;We always want to get the freshest product to the consumer. We want them to know where it came from,&#8221; Meier said. &#8220;So what&#8217;s better than meeting the farmer who&#8217;s raised those chickens, knowing where they&#8217;re coming from? They&#8217;re fresh, and you&#8217;re getting a good, healthy product.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Initially, the bill faced pushback from some public health groups, which argued for stricter labeling and packaging rules to ensure the safety of poultry products for consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The revised bill includes mandated temperature controls during storage, transportation, shipping and delivery. Processed poultry must be packaged in sealed, leak-proof containers to prevent contamination. Each package must also be clearly labeled with the farm\u2019s name and address, the product name, net weight and a statement indicating that the poultry was processed under exemption and not inspected by state or federal authorities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Everything you see in that bill was done by some of the public health coalitions,&#8221; Michael Desmedt, interim director of public health for DuPage County, said. &#8220;I think our voices were heard, and they understood our concerns.\u2019\u2019\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ed Dubrick, a poultry farmer and policy organizer with the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/ilstewards.org\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illinois Stewardship Alliance<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, a nonprofit organization that advocates for sustainable agriculture, said he went around the state and asked livestock farmers what they needed to help with the processing of their animals.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dubrick said the current exemption was too limiting because farmers could only sell \u201con or from the farm.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;Expecting someone to come to the farm every time they want some chicken just really isn&#8217;t realistic,&#8221; he said. &#8220;But if we can bring it to a farmers market where the consumers are, that adds an opportunity.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Illinois is one of the few states without more flexible on-farm poultry processing exemptions, Dubrick said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cIn many states \u2014 about 40 \u2014 you\u2019re allowed to process up to 20,000 birds under similar rules. We\u2019re only asking for 7,500,\u201d he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Farmers will benefit, according to Dubrick.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It gives them the opportunity to drive both their production and their profits on their farms,&#8221; he said<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For consumers, he said, &#8220;I think you&#8217;ll see an increase in the availability of local poultry, and I don&#8217;t think you&#8217;ll see any difference in food quality or safety. Farmers are proud of their product. They&#8217;re not going to put their name, their reputation, their business on the line.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anna Morrell, co-owner of The Little Farm at Weldon Springs in Clinton, said the bill could make it more viable for her and her husband to scale up their small operation, which began in 2020.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis basically just opens up another avenue for getting poultry processed with lower overhead and gives us an avenue of sales into farmers markets,&#8221; Morrell said. &#8220;We&#8217;re currently not operating under the poultry exemption. We take our meat to USDA-inspected facilities, but there are very few processors in Illinois that process poultry.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morrell said the current law had made it more challenging for poultry farmers in Illinois to sell their products; this bill would decrease the number of miles farmers have to travel to get their poultry processed.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If signed, Legislators and advocates say the bill represents a rare collaboration between producers, public health departments and state lawmakers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;And let&#8217;s see if we can&#8217;t keep a few more farm families on the farm and give kids another chance at a future on the farm,\u201d Meier said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Grace Friedman is a journalism student at Northwestern University\u2019s Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications, and a fellow in its Medill Illinois News Bureau working in partnership with Capitol News Illinois.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/capitolnewsillinois.com\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Capitol News Illinois<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is a nonprofit, nonpartisan news service that distributes state government coverage to hundreds of news outlets statewide. 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