# Why the price of chicken wings has taken flight | CBC News

> Restaurants in Canada report that chicken wing prices keep rising as poultry, chicken feed and canola oil costs climb and international shipping remains unreliable. Canadian chicken production is increasing, which the sector expects to ease wing availability.

- Date: 2021-09-07 · published 2021-09-07T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: market · region Canada · magnitude low
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/45211-why-the-price-of-chicken-wings-has-taken-flight-cbc-news
- Commodities: [Chicken](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CHICKEN.md), [Canola Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/CANMEAL.md)

## Why it matters

Higher feed and oil input costs are feeding through to poultry prices, though rising Canadian output could eventually cap wing prices. Demand from reopened restaurants is keeping the market tight in the near term.

## Read by commodity

- CANMEAL: bullish ▲
- CHICKEN: bullish ▲

## Sources

- cbc.ca: https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tight-market-for-chicken-wings-1.6155083

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