Saskatoon StarPhoenix
🏢 Postmedia
📍 SK
May 30, 2026
· 5 min read
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Opinion: Think chicken prices are high now? Wait until this summer
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OPINION
Opinion: Think chicken prices are high now? Wait until this summer
Retail prices typically lag wholesale spikes by four to eight weeks. The wholesale increases occurring now are likely to push retail prices even higher through the summer barbecue season.
Chicken cooks on a barbecue. (Gord Waldner / The StarPhoenix)
By
Sylvain Charlebois
May 30, 2026 at 10:00 a.m.
Last Updated: May 30, 2026 at 10:03 a.m.
By Sylvain Charlebois
Canadians are paying record prices for chicken while importing massive quantities of foreign poultry, mostly from the United States. If that sounds contradicto…
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