Governor of Virginia happy to send chicken once again to China

Poultry producers in Virginia are once again anticipating robust returns after product shipments to China resumed on Thursday after a seven-year hiatus.

Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe was at the Purdue Foods Inc's cold-storage export facility on Thursday in Norfolk, to oversee the poultry products that were being loaded and shipped to China.

It is the first shipment of poultry products leaving the facility after the ban on poultry products from Virginia was lifted by China in May. The ban was imposed by China in 2007 following low pathogenic avian influenza that was reported in a Virginia farm.