Egg prices could rise for UK consumers as farmers cut flock numbers | Eggs
Fewer laying birds are being placed on farms as producers respond to poor retail profit margins
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Fewer laying birds are being placed on farms as producers respond to poor retail profit margins
Kynan Massey, managing director of Massey Feeds, who sells livestock food to over 4,000 farms in the UK, said prices of wheat have gone up by 60% in a year.
Leaders of the UK's free range egg farmers handed out the empty chair treatment to Britain’s supermarkets in frustration at what they say are mounting losses.
The UK's largest retailers have been invited to meet with egg producers at a crisis summit today amid a bleak outlook for the sector.
Britain’s egg producers are facing their worst financial crisis for up to 30 years as retailers hold farmgate prices well below the cost of production,