Differential Growth Mooted For Chicken Allocations

“We’re trying to find a sweet spot to address everybody.” – MIKE DUNGATE, CFC An old chicken industry nemesis about allocating production to provinces is re-emerging in a different form. Chicken Farmers of Canada is under pressure to develop a system allowing different provinces to increase their production at different growth rates. The CFC board

Core Buyers Are Loyal To Their Preferred Meats

Martin Gooch of the George Morris Centre has posted detailed reports on consumer surveys for chicken, lamb, veal and pork. It’s the most complete set of data available and was collected with funding from the federal Agriculture Department’s National Advancing Canadian Agricultural and Agri-Food Program. For chicken, the research found that the average Canadian household


USDA to purchase broilers

The U. S. Department of Agriculture said it intends to purchase broilers and broiler products for federal food assistance programs. USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service purchases a variety of food products each year for distribution by USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service for programs serving children, the elderly, Indian reservations and victims of natural disasters. While AMS

Pilgrim’s bankruptcy “highly probable”

There is a high probability that major U. S. chicken producer Pilgrim’s Pride Corp. will file for bankruptcy protection as interest payments come due in December on bonds, the independent research firm CreditSights said in a note Oct. 29. The chicken processor said Oct. 27 it got a 30-day waiver on credit covenants and would


U. S. meat shares drop amid talk of slowing exports

Shares of leading U. S. meat companies fell sharply Oct. 28 amid increasing talk that the global credit crisis is slowing exports of beef, pork and chicken, analysts said. “That news might be starting to trickle through to the people,” Paul Aho, economist for Poultry Perspective, said of slowing meat exports. Exports of beef, pork,