COLLEGE STATION, Texas — Consumers may have noticed the cost of chicken meat has not climbed in relation to soaring egg prices amid production losses due to highly pathogenic avian influenza, HPAI.
Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service experts say several factors make meat production broiler farms more resilient to outbreaks, keeping prices relatively stable.
Chicken meat prices vs. eggs
Dr. Greg Archer, TAMU AgriLife Extension poultry specialist and associate professor in the Texas A&M Department of Poultry Science, Bryan-College Station, said HPAI outbreaks in broiler houses have not impacted meat prices for a. . .