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Canada Has a Chicken Quota. It Has Missed It 12 Times Out of 14. Prices Are Up 30 Percent
Chicken prices in Canada are about to get worse. Sylvain Charlebois visited a processing plant today and had lunch with the CEO. They ate chicken. Two hundred and fifty chickens are harvested per minute at this facility.
Canada's supply management system missed its production quota twelve times out of the last fourteen cycles. Whole chicken is up thirty percent. A meat broker called Sylvain Charlebois this week suspecting smugglers are crossing the border with undeclared chicken, avoiding the tariff that is supposed to protect the entire system.
The tariff is two hundred and forty-nine…
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