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Poultry and Vitamins

Their prices have moved together.

Poultry (commodity) and Vitamins (chemical): 1 relationship.

How they are linked

1. Price link: demand driver

Cost and price · Weak · Both ways

Poultry and pig feed premixes use most vitamins A, D3 and E. Meat output and feed margins drive demand, but the proxy does not track chicken prices, with monthly moves correlating at -0.10, because supply shocks set vitamin prices.

  • -0.10 monthly change correlation
  • -0.01 12-month change correlation
  • -0.16 fitted elasticity

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