by SUSAN MANN
A tight beef and pork supply coupled with higher prices for those two meats is helping to increase the demand for chicken.
Chicken Farmers of Canada is reporting in its Nov. 10 issue of Chicken Fax that as of Sept. 30 there was 935.5 million kilograms of fresh chicken for the Canadian market, which is 11.6 million kg more than in 2013.
The national organization also reports production up to Sept. 30 is 800.7 million kilograms, or 1.8 per cent (14.4 million kilograms) higher than in 2013. Imports are down by two per cent (2.8 million kilograms) compared to last year at the same time.
Jan Rus, Chicken Farmers manager of market information and systems, says by email production is up because the Chicken Farmers board increased national allocations in 2014 after consulting with its “downstream partners. Chicken demand seems to be up for the year-to-date by about 3.5 per cent.” Rus was referring to Nielsen retail sales data.
Imports are lower than last year but “are expected to increase to normal levels by year end,” he says.
Frozen chicken inventories on Oct. 1 were 30.6 million kilograms, which is 0.50 million kilograms lower than the previous month and 5.2 million kilograms lower than they were on Oct. 1, 2013.
Producer prices for quota period A-127 (Nov. 2 to Dec. 30) are up 2.6 cents compared to the previous quota period A-126 (Sept. 7 to Nov. 1). On average Canadian live prices in A-127 are 0.38 cents higher than they were for the same weeks in the previous year. The Ontario live price for A-127 is $1.626 a kilogram. BF
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Talk about screwing consumers . First give pork farmers OCHHP , then give them a buy out program and then put it to them at the meat counter .
Have seen it all summer at the St Jacobs farmers market,there is a constant line up at the poultry products vendor,not that the other meat vendors are doing bad but never have seen the difference so defined as this year.
I wish to complement Canada's chicken Supply Management system for resisting the natural inclination to price gouge when they see a rising demand for chicken.
Of all the meats, only chicken had a steady inflation rate of 3.79%/yr. while all other Canadian retail meats followed the lead of beef and pork to significantly increase prices in 2013-2014.
For more information on the meat price trends in Canada for 2010 - 2014, see http://canadiansmallflockers.blogspot.com/2014/11/meat-price-mania.html
Glenn Black
Small Flock Poultry Farmers of Canada
Anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down and Now Mr.Black giving praise to Canada's SM chicken system,2 great moments in time...lol. Its hard to disagree with what he says.
I always thought it was rather odd back when BSE hit us that the retail price of beef in the grocery stores didn't refleck what the Beef farmers were getting for their animals.However this past year has shown that they are all too ready to jack the prices up when there was a shortage.
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