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The stocks of red meat in storage amounted to 100 396 metric tonnes in April, up 9% from a year earlier and up 5% from January 2008. The stocks of poultry meat totalled 66 749 metric tonnes in April, up 23% from a year earlier and up 15% from January 2008.
This release contains details for various cuts of pork, beef, veal, poultry, mutton and lamb as well as fancy meats at the Canadian level. At the regional level, it contains totals for the red meats. This release also contains the holdings of imported meat at the national level for the same periods.
Available on CANSIM: tables 003-0081 and 003-0082.
Definitions, data sources and methods: survey number 3423.
The April 2008 issue of Stocks of Frozen and Chilled Meats, Vol. 3, no. 1 (23-009-XWE, free) is now available on our website. From the Publications module, choose Free Internet publications, then Agriculture.
To order data, or to obtain more information, contact Client Services (toll-free 1-800-465-1991). To enquire about the concepts, methods or data quality of this release, contact Barbara McLaughlin (902-893-7251; barbara.mclaughlin@statcan.gc.ca), Agriculture Division.
