Russia sanctions could cut chicken prices here

[LuckyTheDog]

Consumers around the country may pay less for chicken in the coming months now that Russia has banned imports of the fowl and other U.S. agricultural products in what has become a trade war with the U.S. and its allies.

Tom Hensley, president of Fieldale Farms in northeast Georgia, said the thousands of metric tons of dark meat leg quarters that make up of the largest share of poultry exports to Russia will now have to be consumed in the U.S., and that will drive prices lower.

Producers, on the other hand, will feel the pinch.

"It's going to have an impact on us of several hundred thousand dollars, and the industry (impact) will be in the millions of dollars. So it's going to hurt, not doubt about it," Hensley said.

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[GoCubsGo]

1. They can always cut back on the production.

But, lord help them if they have to make things easier for the poor chickens by stuffing fewer of them into a single cage.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. Normally, that might make me happier, since I still eat chicken.

But in conjunction with the doing away of what I essentially consider any sort of real poultry inspection at all, that just means a lot more fecally-contaminated bird carcasses hitting the shelves in the US.

[HereSince1628]

3. Chicken legs from the US, aka (poppy) Bush Legs,

were very popular in Karelia, back at the turn of the century. Families at the RAS White Sea field station shopped in town every Friday (when the ship took them into 'town'), and frozen Bush Legs, along with Baltika beer, were in almost everyone's shopping bag on the way back to the research station.

As American's prefer white chicken meat, it's gotta go somewhere, and cheap protein in the form of chicken legs and Ball Park franks, and dried fish, were in demand

[flamingdem]

4. I cry fowl

[In_The_Wind]

5. It's not going to help folks who don't eat dark meat.

[Jenoch]

6. I have never quite understood why

a majority of Americans prefer chicken breasts over dark meat chicken. I prefer chicken thighs myself and if I eat white meat chicken, I prefer wings.