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Energy in farming and Poultry

Their prices have moved together.

Energy in farming (energy) and Poultry (commodity): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: energy cost

Cost and price · Moderate · Both ways

Heating sheds, running feed mills and chilled transport use diesel and power. The diesel proxy correlates with chicken at 0.13 for monthly moves and 0.36 for yearly moves, a slow pass-through of costs.

  • 0.13 monthly change correlation
  • 0.36 12-month change correlation
  • -0.04 fitted elasticity

Built from the site data on production routes, energy flows, industry value chains, input-output tables and prices.