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The market is a bit all over the place, some saying it is quiet, some ticking over, some quite busy, it all depends where you are in the country and who your customers are.
We heard of French Large at 66p last week, Large 63p Medium 56p for next week.
Our schools go on holiday for midterm now, England in 2 weeks’ time, with there being slightly more confidence in the economy will there be more families heading for the sunshine this year rather than the staycation of the last 2 years.
Rebranding, Is the RSPCA in a bit of trouble with their Freedom Foods? Their chief executive has stated that the brand image is the least recognised in the UK and are now rebranding as RSPCA Freedom Foods.
But at the same time they are knocking the industry that supports them by stating that the hens in this country have only the space of an A4 sheet of paper to live in, this is illegal and past history.
But they are also suggesting that human beings should try and stand on an A4 sheet for 20 minutes to see what a hen feels like, how ludicrous and smacks of desperation, do they not realise that we have the highest welfare standards in the world.
BOCM Pauls is also rebranding as ForFarmers
EU
The EU commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, (the one David Cameron was so against) and was thought as a result would be anti-British, has announced the appointment of a Brit as financial director of the EU.
But it gets better he has appointed Phil Hogan as the new EU agricultural commissioner, he is an Irishman from Kilkenny and is breaking EU tradition and putting somebody in charge of 40% of the EU budget that looks like he will know something about agriculture!!!!
EU
We have included the piece from Jake Davies (Poultry World) as one line in particular is ringing alarm bells, in its haste to try and incorporate the Ukraine into the EU in the plans for the greater EU eggs for processing and products; have to be allowed into the EU from this month, the line that says it all is.
The Ukraine is also under no obligation to keep hens in enriched cages to access the European market.
We were also looking at the approved suppliers of egg products to the EU and noted that China has twice as many as India, but Turkey which is in the process of joining the EU has the biggest list of approved suppliers, again will they have to implement EU regulations or not and they only have a bridge to cross.
