[Gabz]

The eggs are higher because the corn used for chickenfeed is being used for ethanol, and it cost more to ship the produce and refrigerate the produce because of fuel costs.

I agree with all of that, but there is also an additional reason - crop failures this year, either because of drought or flooding. I think the corn crop failure was something like 50% this year in my county alone.......and i have some farmer friends that lost entire crops and others who were only able to salvage 25% and none of that was for ethanol, some was for produce much most was feed corn.

[mylife]

I was unaware of that. We finally broke our 3 year drought this year.