9 January 2015 | Poultry | 2646 views

SEPRA Market Report - 9th January 2015

A happy and prosperous new year to all our friends and members

Don’t panic don’t panic don’t panic that is the change from the 19th December (three weeks). Yes prices have weakened mostly because it is traditional for post-Christmas and New Year.

But there is not a great deal of surplus eggs about, opinion is that Colony is coming back into balance and Free Range is starting to get tighter, note that small are getting pretty scarce and will get more so as less pullets come into lay linked to the drop in chick placing’s in August and September, some people have medium due to the lack of demand from caterers over the festive period.

Well it looks like Britain has got the all clear for Avian Influenza but nobody should get complacent as the risk is still there and there is still the on-going investigation on how the virus arrived.

California has brought in it’s welfare regulations which are very similar to our EU regulations, but they have also brought in a degree of protection for their egg producers, which is interesting as the Americans are objecting to the protection status trying to be gained by the EU because of our higher cost of production resulting from our higher welfare standards.