Snapshot of the Canadian chicken industry - By Agri Canada - This publication starts off with a review of the Canadian poultry industry's history, then looks at all the major poultry companies. It also covers the current market for Canadian imports and exports.

Table of Contents

History

• Farm Products Marketing Act
• National Farm Products Council
• Chicken Farmers of Canada

Structure

Commercial broiler hatching egg producers

• CBHEPA
• CBHEMA
• production by province
• imports

Hatcheries

• CPEPC
• number of hatcheries
• chick placements

Feed

• CFIA

Commercial chicken production

• CBC
• CFC
• production trends
• allocation policies
• areas of production
• farm cash receipts
• rank in world production

Primary processors

• CPEPC
• chicken processing companies
• chicken slaughter plants
• breakdown of slaughter plants by business line
• co-operatives

Further processors

• FPPAC
• CPEPC
• number of further processors
• types of further processors

Imports

• Importing into Canada
• chicken products on the Import Control List (ICL)
• chicken products not on the Import Control List
• tariff rate quota utilization
• imports into Canada
• imports world-wide

Exports

• Canada’s export markets
• Canada’s export concentration
• United State’s export concentration
• world-wide chicken exports
• chicken products being exported from Canada
• who is exporting from Canada

Foodservice

• CRFA

Retail

• CCGD
• CFIG
• consumer price index (CPI)

Consumption

• consumption trends
• seasonal consumption
• Canadian chicken consumption vs. United States
• Canadian chicken consumption vs. other countries
• chicken consumption vs. other meats

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Source: Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada