First electricity rates jumped, now gasoline prices are galloping up, and the next sticker shock could be chicken prices, which are likely to go up at least 10 percent by the summer.

That?s what James Perdue, chairman of the East Coast?s largest poultry company, told members of the Maryland Economic Development Association on Tuesday morning.

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