Posted on 04/29/2020 8:58:31 AM PDT by blam
I do not know that but what I am cock sure about is that someone is screwing the consumers using the pandemic.
LOL do not try it....
I actually know it is insane thing to do and can’t understand why it is being done. (I don’t ranch myself, despite owning a small ranch between two very large ranches, and THEY aren’t doing it (they graze though, not operate feed lots)).
But it seems to be true, at least in some areas.
That’s pretty darned good. The lines at the Costco near us extends toward the gas station. Not to mention, it is to be hot today so just maybe their won’t be a line?????
Texas is suing one egg wholesaler for price gouging. Not gouging, but I have noticed grocery sales are in short supply, and only for perishables that they have too much of.
I thought that farmers were dumping milk, killing chickens and letting crops rot in the field because it wasn't worth the money to produce them. If it was that easy to jack up the prices why couldn't they just raise the price to whatever they want and sell it?
Exactly correct. Prices should rise during high demand so people voluntarily limit purchases.
Plus, California voted some stupid bill to require the egg laying chickens live in the lap of luxury with wider “social” distancing. This resulted in far higher egg prices in California than the rest of the country because farmers had to either build bigger barns or produce fewer eggs.
Get what ya pay for california
I get 4 - 5 eggs a day from my girls and there are only two of us living here.
“They are charging more than I would kike to pay”.
“Price should reflect demand and cost of doing business.”
A voice of reason, thank you. The retail outlets the shopper sees do not grow or distribute their products to their stores. They are the last of the supply chain and anyone inside of it can raise their prices and/or reflect someone else’s price change in the process whether honest or not. Money doesn’t grow on trees for the consumer. And the stores are just as much a consumer as the final buyer. So blaming these stores for what is determined an arbitrary price increase to gouge, is just trying to point fingers.
An example is wholesale prices of “Midwest large” eggs hit an all-time high of $3.09 a dozen this week, triple their level in early March. So if the store pays more to get them, they have to charge more to pay their employees. (Cost of goods)
So blaming the stores, creating bad publicity to try to protect their own image, doesn’t speak well for the California government. But that’s what is happening.
rwood
I got a barrel of flour Lord I got a bucket of lard
I got a barrel of flour Lord I got a bucket of lard
I ain’t got no blues got chickens in my backyard
Because people will not buy if price looks too high.
For example I seldom buy bacon now because I do not consider it is worth the price.
I know, let the gov’t set price controls on everything! It works in every marxist country! Just like rent control!
(sarc of course)
Egg prices to farmers peaked around Easter at over $2.00 / doz. That’s means a big retail price spike.
They are back down to under $1.00 now.
Some retailers use them as a loss leader.
We get our eggs free and fresh from the coop everyday courtesy of Henrietta, Stephanie and Rosie.
my grocery store has a sign stating that the suppliers had to raise prices because of issues related to the virus.
So apparently they are worried about backlash.
It didn’t feel to me like the eggs were that much more expensive though, so maybe they’ve gotten better.
Winn-Dixie raised their prices, too.
The schedule for hogs going to market this week was set about 293 days ago.
Think of it as a conveyor belt, with today’s pigs put into the production cycle 293 days ago when the boar and sow were put together to breed.
Every bit of space since then has been scheduled to be used by those pigs as they grow to market weight.
There is very little wasted space, time, or feed, and the conveyor keeps moving forward every day.
If the hogs that are scheduled to go to market this week (literally in the next two days) can’t go for any reason things start to back up, pens become over crowded, feed schedules become skewed, lots of other things, big and small start to go wrong, mayhem results.
There is only one solution, if hogs at the front of the line, those ready to go to the packing plant can’t be killed, some of the pigs further back must be killed.
Before I retired I raised and sold hundreds of thousands of hogs, so I know a little of the heartbreak these guys are facing.
Our supply chains are breaking. Our production is down sharply. What do stupid leftists expect?
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