August 2, 2016
“What do you mean ‘I have to move’? I live here.”
This handy infographic explains the economics of poultry production from the perspective of the typical American chicken farmer. It’s not just a tough life: farmers bear a great deal of the economic risk (in the form of debt) that allows you to buy that cheap broiler bird in the supermarket. Farmers take on long-term debt in the hope of acquiring short term poultry production contracts, the terms of which are skewed in favor of the big poultry buyer.
Does this knowledge encourage you to buy from a farmer that does not participate in the “Big Chicken” system?
Hat-tip, Jordan Green – Farmbuilder.
