U.S. Rep. Doug Collins, R-Gainesville, is pushing an increase in poultry processing plants’ line speeds to new U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue. Poultry producers in South America, Asia, Canada and Europe “are safely operating at line speeds that outpace the maximum speeds allowed in American facilities,” states a press release from the congressman’s office. And those practices represent “a significant disadvantage to Northeast Georgia’s poultry industry and America’s domestic production.”