Canada’s chicken industry is fractured over the issue of how
much to produce this summer.
The Chicken Farmers of Canada marketing agency has the power
to set production targets and has included a two per cent increase over
year-earlier levels for market growth.
That is more than three associations, representing
processors, further processors and restaurateurs, recommended.
The Canadian Egg and Poultry Processors Council called for
only a one per cent increase.
The egg farmers spent time during the agency’s recent annual
general meeting trying to tinker with the protocol for deciding how much
chicken to produce and how to allocate it among the provinces.
Alberta brought a request for “special circumstances,” but
only Ontario supported the proposal so it was denied.
