ANALYSIS: From Shortage to Surplus: Chicken Market's Dramatic 2025 Turnaround
The year began with an unusually sharp rally across the chicken complex as a perfect storm of supply constraints and aggressive demand converged. Retailers and foodservice operators leaned heavily into chicken due to the historically wide cost spread compared to beef, which made chicken the clear feature protein nationwide. At the same time, production efficiency was severely compromised. Avian metapneumovirus and laryngotracheitis did not drive large mortality events, but they significantly reduced bird performance, cutting live weights, suppressing feed conversion, and lowering...
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