Tight supplies and high prices for beef and pork in Canada stimulate growth in chicken demand

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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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