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Four years after leaving the national chicken organization, Alberta Chicken Producers has a new quota deal and is back in the fold.
Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Alberta rejoins the flock with new national chicken quota deal

A decade-old dispute over quota allocation is finally settled, and producers are already expanding facilities

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Alberta is back in the federal-provincial agreement for allocating broiler chicken quota after exiting it in 2013. “I’m thinking they should hire us for NAFTA now,” Alberta Chicken Producers’ chair Erna Ference said with a laugh. “This was a huge effort. We started back in 2008 with this, and it took a lot of producers […] Read more
chicken carcasses on a food processing line
Livestock, Poultry/Eggs

Chicken industry reaches long-delayed allocation agreement

New deal gives Alberta fair share of chicken allocation

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Reading Time: 3 minutes Canada’s broiler chicken industry has reached a new quota allocation agreement, avoiding a potential showdown with a federal regulator that could have thrown the system into chaos. The deal will see Alberta producers get more quota and rejoin the Chicken Farmers of Canada (CFC). “The reason we stepped out was because our population was growing […] Read more

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