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Shares in SA's biggest chicken producer Astral Foods slipped a little on Wednesday after it warned its plunge in interim earnings could even be worse than it flagged at the beginning of the year. | News24_Business

FNB portfolio manager Wayne McCurrie said the Astral story was all about"input costs", but showed the volatility of the poultry industry, and how difficult it was for management to get its timing right to maximise margins.

Casparus Treurnicht, portfolio manager and research analyst at Gryphon Asset Management, said conditions had never been tougher for Astral, which only recently had been performing well.Chicken production and the egg business are extremely cyclical, and things can change overnight.

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