Small-Scale Canadian Farmers Hobbled By Rising Costs, Less Access To Slaughter Services

Squamish farmer Tracy Robertson is getting out of the chicken business.

Chickens from the Stony Mountain Farm were being processed a few hundred at a time at a local meat packing facility until late last year, when her processor raised the minimum order to 2,000 birds.

“I’m only licensed for 2,000 chickens a year and there is no way we can get to 2,000 in one order,” she said. “The most I’ve ever done is 700 in one year.”

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