South Carolina H 4373: 39th SC Poultry Festival

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2025-2026 Bill 4373 Text of Previous Version (Apr. 23, 2025) - South Carolina Legislature Online 

South Carolina General Assembly
126th Session, 2025-2026

Bill 4373

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A house RESOLUTION

TO CELEBRATE THE THIRTY-NINTH SOUTH CAROLINA POULTRY 
FESTIVAL TO BE HELD MAY 8 THROUGH MAY 10, 2025, IN BATESBURG-LEESVILLE AND TO 
HONOR THOSE PLANNING AND PARTICIPATING IN THE FESTIVAL.

Whereas, the members of 
the South Carolina House of Representatives are pleased to learn that the South 
Carolina Poultry Festival will celebrate its thirty-ninth anniversary at this 
year's festival in Batesburg-Leesville from May 8 through 10, 2025; and

Whereas, employing 
thousands of citizens, South Carolina's billion-dollar poultry industry 
annually produces, processes, and markets vast amounts of eggs, broilers, 
turkeys, pigeons, quail, and spring chickens; and

Whereas, Lexington, 
Saluda, and Aiken counties serve as home to some of the state's top broiler 
producers, including such household names as Amick Farms, Columbia Farms, and 
Gentry Poultry Company; and

Whereas, in 1986, 
Batesburg-Leesville restaurant owner Sara Shealy hatched the idea of a poultry 
festival based in Lexington County to showcase the state's largest 
agribusiness, and the Leesville Merchants Association created a festival from 
her proposal; and

Whereas, one year 
later, the Ridge Poultry Festival was held, hosting approximately twenty 
thousand visitors. The event became the South Carolina Poultry Festival in 1989 
and is now the state's official poultry festival. In recent years, its 
attendance has exceeded one hundred thousand people; and

Whereas, today, the 
festival features multiple stages offering continuous entertainment, some 
thirty food vendors, a carnival, a parade with over one hundred units, and more 
than seventy commercial vendors and one hundred twenty crafters; and

Whereas, the event 
presents the best of Southern hospitality, and proceeds regularly support 
various local charities, organizations, and community causes while hosting the 
festival's own "#1 World's Best Chicken Cooking Contest"; and

Whereas, guests 
anticipate an impressive antique car and collector show, a five-kilometer road 
race, a volleyball tournament, and evening street dances; and

Whereas, a spectacular 
display of the American spirit will conclude the festival on Saturday evening 
in one of the largest pyromusical shows available; and

Whereas, the South 
Carolina House of Representatives commends the planners and participants of the 
thirty-ninth annual South Carolina Poultry Festival, and the members appreciate 
the beneficial impact of the poultry industry on the economy of the Palmetto 
State. Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House 
of Representatives:

That the members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, by this resolution, celebrate 
the thirty-ninth South Carolina Poultry Festival, to be held May 8 through 10, 
2025, in Batesburg-Leesville and honor those planning and participating in the 
festival.

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