# Poultry’s Perfect Storm in 2021-22

> US poultry prices are at a sustained multi-year high, driven by strong demand and supply constraints from employee absenteeism and transport issues. Integrators face higher building material and labour costs for new housing, limiting expansion of bird supply.

- Date: 2022-01-18 · published 2022-01-18T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region US · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/43285-poultry-s-perfect-storm-in-2021-22
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md), [Corn](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CORN.md), [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md)

## Why it matters

Constrained broiler supply expansion keeps chicken prices elevated and supports sustained feed demand from US integrators.

## Read by commodity

- SOY: neutral
- CORN: neutral
- CHICKEN: bullish ▲

## Sources

- southernagtoday.org: https://southernagtoday.org/2022/01/18/poultrys-perfect-storm-in-2021-22/

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