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More than 1.4 million chickens stranded by closure of Pure Prairie Poultry plant euthanized

As chicken wing season hits a peak with March Madness, we delve into the brutal economics of the chicken wing through two Minnesota-based companies, Buffalo Wild Wings and Gold N Plump. The former has a conundrum: short term wing price spikes are made worse by a long-term issue of bigger and bigger birds. Wild Wings buys its wings in pounds, but sells them in pieces. As birds get bigger, they get less pieces per pound David Schumann and Tracy Schumann- Scapanski have just started raising chicken
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As chicken wing season hits a peak with March Madness, we delve into the brutal economics of the chicken wing through two Minnesota-based companies, Buffalo Wild Wings and Gold N Plump. The former has a conundrum: short term wing price spikes are made worse by a long-term issue of bigger and bigger birds. Wild Wings buys its wings in pounds, but sells them in pieces. As birds get bigger, they get less pieces per pound David Schumann and Tracy Schumann- Scapanski have just started raising chicken
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More than 1.4 million chickens stranded by closure of Pure Prairie Poultry plant euthanized

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