Egg price statistics

[MrA.G.]

I was wondering if anyone could point me in the direction of any online graphs which shows the average trading price of different classes of eggs over the past few years? Particularly interested in the price of seconds.

Also, has anyone any experience of how seconds are traded between producers and producers? is there a trading platform somewhere?

Thanks.

 

[buddie]

Hi Mister A.G the price of farm seconds have dropped considerably since 2015 they were 38p per doz and 28p graded seconds to day they are 10p farm seconds, and 9p graded. Try BFREPA they have a lot of info on there web site they go back about three flocks
over all the average price of free range egg have dropped 20p per doz over last 3 years, the price of feed No1 ration £286 per ton £50 per ton Up on 2016 prices are so you are struggling to make end meet, but the packers are still making a big profit
4 egg producing farms have given up near me 50,000 birds gone i will be next with 9,000 birds since 2015 i have lost £40,000 time to give up

 

[MrA.G.]

Hi Mister A.G the price of farm seconds have dropped considerably since 2015 they were 38p per doz and 28p graded seconds to day they are 10p farm seconds, and 9p graded. Try BFREPA they have a lot of info on there web site they go back about three flocks
over all the average price of free range egg have dropped 20p per doz over last 3 years, the price of feed No1 ration £286 per ton £50 per ton Up on 2016 prices are so you are struggling to make end meet, but the packers are still making a big profit
4 egg producing farms have given up near me 50,000 birds gone i will be next with 9,000 birds since 2015 i have lost £40,000 time to give up

Thanks for the detailed response @buddie
Do you know where or how your packer sells their seconds? Is it s case of word of mouth etc to a regular liquid egg producer? Or perhaps they process the seconds themselves? Shame to hear the English egg producer is struggling, different contracts over here in NI so not the same pressure on the producers currently.

 

[buddie]

don't really know I believe that they process the liquid egg them self's, I think they sell a lot of liquid egg to helmans the mayo company other than that I don't really know, I am glad you have good contracts, the contracts we have are not worth a bag of chicken muck, good luck with your search Buddie

 

[Grassman]

Hi Mister A.G the price of farm seconds have dropped considerably since 2015 they were 38p per doz and 28p graded seconds to day they are 10p farm seconds, and 9p graded. Try BFREPA they have a lot of info on there web site they go back about three flocks
over all the average price of free range egg have dropped 20p per doz over last 3 years, the price of feed No1 ration £286 per ton £50 per ton Up on 2016 prices are so you are struggling to make end meet, but the packers are still making a big profit
4 egg producing farms have given up near me 50,000 birds gone i will be next with 9,000 birds since 2015 i have lost £40,000 time to give up

I am afraid this job has some more price cuts to come before any proper increase.

 

[henman]

40p a dozen for medium eggs into a bracker west mids I am told is the trade

 

[buddie]

the thing is a few of the big packing station only what "big farm" so they can collect on attics, so I think that they are forcing out all the sheds that they can not get in to in favour of 30,000 + bird units
5 farm not far from me have been told that they have to improve there access in order for these attics to get, in so they are closing down a sly way of ending your contract, they don't really care as there is plenty of egg available with these big 30/ 60,000 factory farms unit coming on line

 

[buddie]

40p a dozen for medium eggs into a bracker west mids I am told is the trade

even Dick Turpin wore a mask when he was robbing you

 

[wdah/him]

egg market must still be flooded with medium at that price for medium to breaker, but then possibly the only market for surplus

 

[buddie]

watched a program on telly about a company that make scotch eggs and porkpies with egg, they were using small eggs 1,000,000 a week no one seams to want medium eggs
and every one wants large eggs, but in order to get large eggs you have to have small med then large, if the public could see birds that prolapse from laying larger eggs then perhaps they would eat medium eggs

 

[henman]

a rep told me 15 p cut on mediums is in the pipe line by one packer

 

[buddie]

a rep told me 15 p cut on mediums is in the pipe line by one packer

that would be a loss of £1700. per 1000 birds over a flock cycle

 

[buddie]

if they take any more of the price of eggs it wont be worth doing the job

 

[henman]

if they take any more of the price of eggs it wont be worth doing the job

I would have left my 64,000 hen shed empty if I had no finance to pay

 

[buddie]

that the problem with most of us producers, three flocks ago I was told that the average egg price was .93p per dozen, so I invested in new nest ect now the average is .78 ppd including bonuses, and still falling I am getting to old to keep playing this game, what with all the parasites out there wanting a slice of you, so I am selling up and retiring