Meat prices going up

They are saying that the price of chicken is on the rise. What is the price of chickens from the farm doing going up also? I believe Hubert said that they was wanting chickes 5 lbs. lighter. They are also saying there is a shortage on chicken wings. Do they have wing less chickens now?

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tadams(OH) wrote: They are saying that the price of chicken is on the rise. What is the price of chickens from the farm doing going up also? I believe Hubert said that they was wanting chickes 5 lbs. lighter. They are also saying there is a shortage on chicken wings. Do they have wing less chickens now?

You can be sure that the farmers are not the ones benefiting

Boy howdy ain't that the truth. The last time the farmers had a raise that I know of was about 4 years ago and it was $0.005/lb. Then they cut the placement (number of birds per square foot) so the raise didn't really do anything. Our parent company wants a 4.35 to 4.4 lb bird because that's what the customer requires. They say that size bird gives the breast size that they desire to make their product efficiently. Basically they don't have to add steps to get rid of excess meat.

We get paid by the average live weight of the whole farm. The parent company provides chicks, feed, and transport. We provide housing, utilities, and labor. Where the bonus comes from is our average cost being lower than the other farms. After our birds are taken to the plant, they figure the bird weight, % of livability, and feed conversion. That gives them the total pounds and cost per pound. A bigger bird with a lower feed conversion will have a lower cost. Once they figure the average cost for all the farms that sold that week they rank the farms. Farms that have the average cost for the week make their contract pay. Farms that have an above average cost are said to finish below average and have that amount subtracted from their pay. Farms that finish with a lower cost are said to finish above average and have the money lost added to their pay. For example, let's say my birds cost the parent company $0.2000/lb. That means it cost the parent company $0.2000/lb to bring me chicks, feed, and catch and haul back to the processing plant. Let's say Hubert had a higher feed conversion and his cost was $0.2020/lb. If my cost was average for the week then Hubert would be 20 points below average and $0.0020/lb would be taken from his pay and added to the farms that finished above average. In short, no the farmer doesn't see that money.

Corn at 6:50 a Bushel, beans at $14.00 + per bushel. Son is a manager for the largest chicken producer in the US. The only dependable labor they can get is convict labor. The guys are bussed in from the prisons. Most days he's there 16 hours a day. Price of eggs is so low its not profitable to produce them. The last 6 months things have gone from very good to very bad.      

I talked with a manager from "the parent company" today and he said the plant is running at about 60% capacity because there's nobody there to work. I guess it's the same everywhere. I'd say that's where the shortage is coming from

Wow.....Well chicken is not a vegetable and not liquid, what do you propose that is Einstein?

Sadly, when "we" (wife/son and myself) go to a restaurantthat serves "chicken"  on the menu, the wife ALWAYS picks that "dinner" that takes 20 more minutes to "bring out" to the table as opposed to a "red meat" offering 

"Meat" is Animal Protein, Chickens or fowl, or birds of ANY type are Animals and as such provide a "Meat" protein material.

Ray54 wrote: Please don't set yourself up as such a easy target. But since many think we need to be kinder and . I raise beef not chickens, never thought turkey was a treat. But in latter life there are reasons for more poultry less red meat ( gout being the biggest) . Dry old white meat turkey sounds down right wonderful, as to eating lab grow goo they call man made meat. Yes rear poultry is not in the same as rear steak. But there are some things that can raise experience of eating chicky up a bunch. Marinating chicky in wine and spices at least overnight, grilling for some smoke, then finishing by melting butter into marinate and putting  this and chicky in pot to steam until well done. It is not that old dry chicky. But probably is not that super low fat, low cholesterol ether.

i cook/smoke ALOT of chicky, along with turkey and pork and beef and and and....if it tastes good...we eat it! some folks we know just put up 2-60x600 ft barns for egg production, they are doing well so far. i buy eggs from our renter. 

FREEDGUY wrote: An INFERIOR/DRY attempt at a "meat", and I'm not Einstein, just a guy that has a "palate" !! Look that word up if you don't know what that means  !! Turkey is even WORSE than chicken meat IMO !!

Never knew a buffalo had wings.  LOL

Jenny asked me to stop at the store on my way home from work recently. I walked by the meat department. They had 3 big briskets. Each was over $100.00
I thought it was ridiculous when they hit $30.00