Perdue Uses RFID to Track Free-Range Chicken Behavior

By Mark Roberti

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Perdue Farms is deploying UHF RFID tags on its birds, with readers at chicken house pop-holes to track their movements in pastures and identify what conditions promote free-range activity. One of the largest producers of chickens for eating in the United States, Perdue generates 12 million broiler birds each week and is now reportedly the largest supplier of free-range chickens. The company is now six months into a project using RFID technology to tr...

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