There would be nine if it weren't for the current average (US$1,575.80/t, preliminary result) being 1.5% above the value recorded in the middle of the 2009 global crisis (US$1,551.75/t).
The curious thing is to note that the Brazilian situation is not very different from the North American one. It is true, in this case, that the current average price in the USA (US$943.75/t) is the lowest in nine years, surpassing the average price in 2007 (US$934.75/t) by less than 1%.
But the USA faced an outbreak of Avian Influenza (late 2014 and part of 2015) that to this day affects its foreign business with poultry products, reducing not only prices, but above all the volume exported.
And if Brazil gained in volume, it lost in another aspect. The distance between the average prices of the two countries also fell.
The difference in prices is justified, because while the USA essentially exports thighs and drumsticks, Brazilian exports have a wide variety of cuts, several of which are considered noble.
But while at the beginning of this century Brazilian chicken meat had an overprice close to 82% (in 2011, US$1,147.00/t in the USA; US$2,083.50/t in Brazil), currently, in the post-North Influenza American, the margin is less than 67% (US$943.75/t in the USA; US$1,575.80/t in Brazil).
