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The market, we said it would get interesting, didn’t think we would see Colony dearer than Free Range, again it is the old supply and demand, a lot of Colony out and a lot of new Free Range in.
It will all sort it’s self out over the next few months, but right now Irish packers are still pushing prices up blaming the demand on the Continent linked to the USA, but things are more settled and we have heard of some cheaper parcels of eggs available there, opinion is that any movement will be down, demand is very quiet with a lot of people taking early holiday’s to avoid the high prices at peak times.
Heard an interesting story from a member who was tight for eggs and purchased some from Ireland to discover they had bought them through Central Egg from another Scottish producer/ packer.
The problems in USA continue to get worse and today we heard of another 1 million hens lost to AI, it is completely altering the world egg market, which is altering the EU market with exports to countries which were traditionally supplied by the US and that effects our market especially eggs for processing.
For that reason most of this week’s report is linked to the US problems an awful lot of which is linked to appalling Bio-Security and high densities of production in relatively small areas of a vast country.
In the USA it appears they have been hit by both the Autumn migration going south and now the spring migration going North of wetland wild birds, our own next high risk time will be in the Autumn when the wetland birds which summer in Siberia return to our shores and numbers will depend on how severe the Continental winter will be and note that the American NFU is stating that climate change did and is affecting distribution of agricultural products, no-one can be complacent over mother nature.
