Oaklands reduce egg price

Oaklands Farm Eggs is cutting producer egg prices – and the company has warned that the price will be reduced still further unless the number of new entrants to free range egg production is brought under control.

Letters were going out to the company’s free range egg producers as the Ranger went to press. We were unable to obtain confirmation of the price drop directly from Oaklands, but one producer revealed to us the contents of the letter he received.

It said that the price of grade A eggs would be reduced by 10p and grade B eggs by 5p from the end of May – and it blamed the reduction on the number of free range eggs coming onto the market from new entrants to the industry.

Oaklands said in the letter that unless the "massive expansion of free range production" ceased, the company envisaged another 10p cut being implemented in August or September this year.