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This is where the UK laying flock size has got to: View attachment 1078536

Egg prices have to rise, but I think egg producers are one of the gobbiest sectors of the ag industry, and probably the best organised media wise. BFREPA retain the services of a specialist media and comms chap who sits in his lair directing journalists to the right farmers for newspaper, telly, radio and so on.

And even so it’s been a monumental struggle, the retailers will fight tooth and claw because if we win, then every other sector will try their luck, pigs, cattle, veg Heinz you name it.

As for wheat consumption, 5,000,000 hens would eat about 155,000 tons of wheat a year. So it’s significant but it wouldn’t move the market on its own.
Full marks for the attention that the egg sector is getting.
Here in the pig sector we can only dream of that as all are terrified of being dumped by processors. One family was particularly high profile in the media and lost their contract with the largest processor and are now being a bit more careful having secured a contract elsewhere.
 
Full marks for the attention that the egg sector is getting.
Here in the pig sector we can only dream of that as all are terrified of being dumped by processors. One family was particularly high profile in the media and lost their contract with the largest processor and are now being a bit more careful having secured a contract elsewhere.

Is this the vertical integration we have admired the pig sector for?
 

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