The Price of Chicken: 1940’s vs. 2024
The Price of Chicken: 1940 vs. 2024 Have you ever wondered why the price of chicken at the grocery store is so different from the price of pasture-raised poultry from a small farm like What The Cluck Farms? To understand this, we need to take a journey back to 1940 and compare how chickens were produced then to how they are produced now. The differences in methods, industrialization, and the scale of operations reveal why there is such a significant price difference and why the chickens we raise are still a great value when adjusted for inflation. How Chicken Production Has Changed In 1940, broilers, or chickens raised for meat, were typically slaughtered at around 85 days old and weighed about 2.9 pounds. Fast forward to 2024, and broilers are now commonly slaughtered at just 56 days old, weighing closer to 6.5 pounds. This dramatic increase in growth rate and…
