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To: Kackikat

Egg shortage caused by several factors...problems in Mexico and Canada that have decimated supply in those countries. High prices in beef have moved consumers to poultry and there has been continued consolidation of poultry producers. All of those factors have led to a case of high demand and not enough capacity.

If they can keep the bird flu from hopping the border into WA and MN....where there are two large poultry companies ...expectation is that pricing should moderate before spring


67 posted on 12/20/2014 9:18:45 PM PST by conservaKate ( I grow weary of the goobers in the Republican party. (thanks Chris))
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To: conservaKate

OK the info is appreciated.

I don’t understand why that would cause such a huge price increase on the east coast, as we have egg farms and poultry companies here.

The beef issue yes, although many black angus farms are in my state NC. I can see the high demand on poultry due to beef costs.

This is disturbing that we aren’t keeping more local suppliers of those staples like poultry farms and egg producers all around the country. I do remember some issue here in NC a few years ago on poultry and eggs, but I thought that had been resolved....more research.

Thanks for keeping us informed.


77 posted on 12/21/2014 5:27:58 AM PST by Kackikat ('If it talks like a traitor, acts like a traitor, then by God it's a traitor.')
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